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Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave
We study the short-, medium-, and long-run employment effects of a substantial change in Germany’s parental leave benefit program. In 2007, a...
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Intergenerational transmission of unemployment after apprenticeship graduation: does parental socioeconomic background still matter?
A smooth transition from apprenticeship to standard employment is a key step in the professional biographies of apprenticeship graduates. In this...
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Inequality of Opportunity in Changing Access to Employment in India: A Panel Study
Labour market segmentation on the lines of caste, religion, gender, and parental characteristics is well documented in the literature. Evidence...
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Boomerang children and parental retirement outcomes
As the share of U.S. adult children living with their parents increases, it is important to understand how children who “boomerang” back home impact...
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Parental Business Exposure and Hybrid Entrepreneurial Entry: Evidence from an Emerging Economy
The study aimed at determining the effect of prior parental business exposure or PBE on hybrid entrepreneurial entry—an incremental form of...
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Sickness absences among young mothers and the child penalty in employment
While a growing literature documents the negative impact of motherhood on women’s career trajectories, the specific mechanisms behind their...
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From Unemployed to Self-Employed: Analysis of Treatment Effects of a Dutch Self-Employment Programme
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a programme that aims to activate welfare recipients to become self-employed. We use unique administrative...
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Early child care and the employment potential of mothers: evidence from semi-parametric difference-in-differences estimation
This paper examines the effect of an expansion of subsidized early child care on maternal labor market outcomes. It contributes to the literature by...
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Grandparents and parental labor supply during the COVID-19 pandemic
This study examines whether and to what extent the availability of grandparents in the home plays a buffering role in the labor supply of parents of...
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Parental involvement and neighborhood quality: evidence from public housing demolitions in Chicago
I study how parental involvement responds to declines in neighborhood quality. Previous research on this topic has largely been limited to...
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Is longer maternal care always beneficial? The impact of a 4-year paid parental leave
We study the impact of an extension of paid family leave in the Czech Republic from 3 to 4 years on children’s long-term outcomes. We find that an...
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Does temporary employment increase length of commuting? Longitudinal evidence from Australia and Germany
On average, temporary jobs are far less stable than permanent jobs. This higher instability could potentially lower workers’ incentives to relocate...
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Parental inputs and socio-economic gaps in early child development
Around 1 in 5 individuals in OECD countries leave school without basic qualifications, impacting their own later life outcomes and those of their...
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Employment protection legislation and household formation: evidence from Italy
While many studies have investigated the determinants of household formation and fertility in young adults, only a few have focused on the impact of...
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New evidence on the health and employment effects of non-pharmaceutical COVID-19 interventions on workers in the United States
We provide new evidence on the economic and health impacts of government- mandated non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) during the COVID-19...
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Estimating Parental Demand for Children’s Screen Time in a Model of Family Labor Supply
In a novel approach to model the demand for the children's screen time as the result of a parent's optimal labor-leisure choice, the study used a...
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Parental disability and teenagers’ time allocation
Using the 2003–2019 American Time Use Survey, we examine how living with a parent who has a work-limiting disability is related to teenagers’ time...
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Gender Regime and Women’s Employment in Kazakhstan
Researchers have analyzed care policies in the wider Europe in order to understand how these may impact labor force decisions of women. We extend...
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Barriers to Employment at the Individual Level
Based on various rounds of the periodic labour force surveys, this chapter reflects on some of the disadvantages envisaged in terms of poor...
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Inequality, growth fluctuations, and employment
This paper analyses how short-term fluctuations in economic growth affect inequality in develo** countries. Using a sample of 71 countries, we find...
