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A forgotten issue : distributional effects of day care subsidies in Germany
Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spieß, C. Katharina; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000
In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done....
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A forgotten issue : distributional effects of day care subsidies in Germany
Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spieß, C. Katharina; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000
In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339100
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A Forgotten Issue : Distributional Effects of Day Care Subsidies in Germany
Spiess, C. Katharina; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Wagner, Gert G. - 2021
In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321237
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Early child care and child outcomes : the role of grandparents
Del Boca, Daniela; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Pronzato, … - 2014
In this paper, we focus on the impact of early grandparents' care on child cognitive outcomes, in the short and medium term, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK). Compared with children looked after in a formal care centre, children cared by grandparents (as well as parents) are...
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The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories
Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020
We study the effect of childcare availability on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the … staggered opening od childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare … facilities in the year of birth of the first child reduces the child penalty. The availability of childcare increases maternal …
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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Japan among Sons and Daughters: Levels and Trends
Lefranc, Arnaud; Ojima, Fumiaki; Yoshida, Takashi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between 1935 and 1975. Our estimates rely on a two-sample instrumental variables approach using representative data from the Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys,...
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Gender based within-household inequality in immunization status of children: some evidence from South Asian countries
Singh, Ashish - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 2, pp. 911-923
Using households with a pair of male-female siblings from DHS surveys, this paper estimates gender based within-household inequality in immunization status of children (aged 1-5 years) from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. I find substantial level of gender based within-household...
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THE IMPACT OF FARMLAND LOSS ON INCOME DISTRIBUTION OF HOUSEHOLDS IN HANOI'S PERI-URBAN AREAS, VIETNAM
TUYEN, TRAN QUANG - In: Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics 55 (2014) 2, pp. 189-206
This study has provided the first econometric evidence that the loss of land (due to urbanization and industrialization) has no impact on the probability of a household belonging to a particular income group (poor, middle class or rich) in Hanoi's peri-urban areas, Vietnam. The result also...
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Relative Deprivation in China
Chen, Xi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Relative deprivation (RD), also known as relative poverty , an idea implicitly put forward by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations and formally conceptualized by Runciman (1966), refers to the discontent people feel when they compare their positions to others and realize that others in the group...
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Educational expansion, earnings compression and changes in intergenerational economic mobility : Evidence from French cohorts, 1931-1976
Lefranc, Arnaud - Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application … - 2011
This paper analyzes long-term trends in intergenerational earnings mobility in France. I estimate intergenerational earnings elasticities for male cohorts born between 1931 and 1975. This time period has witnessed important changes in the French labor market and educational system, in particular...
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