Motherhood and market work decisions in institutional context: a European perspective

Boca, Daniela Del; Pasqua, Silvia; Pronzato, Chiara

doi:10.1093/oep/gpn046

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“…Other studies also linked to our analysis include Del Boca et al . (), Del Boca and Sauer (), and Jaumotte (). All three contributions concern labor market involvement of women in Europe, but their specific focus is quite distinct between one another and from the one in our paper.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Del Boca et al . () use household‐level data from the European Community Household Panel to analyse women's decision to work and to have children in a joint framework. They control for different institutional characteristics related to the childcare system, parental leave arrangements, family allowances, and part‐time opportunities.…”

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“… Among other non‐financial aspects of family support, Del Boca et al . () point that regarding the parental leave, more than its availability it is its length which strongly determine participation of women. This impact is found to be positive up to the length of 6 months, at which point the coefficient turns negative. …”

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Labor Force Participation of Women in the EU – What Role do Family Policies Play?

Gehringer¹,

Klasen

2016

Labour

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We empirically study the role of different family policies in affecting women's labor market behavior in the European Union. Women tend to assume more family duties than men and, consequently, often participate less in the labor market. Family policies aim to support families in general while a particular focus is on helping women to reconcile family duties with labor market participation. Their impact, however, is not clear, especially when it comes to different forms of labor market activity. We use a static and dynamic panel econometric framework examining the link between financial support for four types of family policies and labor force participation as well as (part‐time and full‐time) employment. The results suggest no stable significant impact of expenditures on family policies on overall labor force participation. However, higher spending on family allowance, cash benefits, and daycare benefits appears to promote part‐time employment, whereas only spending on parental leave schemes is a significant positive determinant of women's full‐time employment.

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Labor Force Participation of Women in the EU – What Role do Family Policies Play?

Gehringer¹,

Klasen

2016

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“…Workplace practices such as long working hours and working weeks make it harder to match work and care commitments and have been found to negatively affect fertility rates [19]. By contrast, part-time employment opportunities have a positive effect on fertility rates in OECD countries, especially among women with a higher level of educational attainment [17,20].…”

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Effect of Work-Family Balance Policy on Job Selection and Social Sustainability: The Case of South Korea

Yoo

2017

Sustainability

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South Korea needs to actively implement work-family balance policies to increase both the low employment rate of women and the low total fertility rate. This study analyzes the quantitative benefits that the implementation of work-family balance policies provides to employees and employers. We conducted a choice experiment that asked 633 participants about their stated preferences for a hypothetical company with different work-family balance practices. The analysis was performed by using a hierarchical Bayesian model that considered preference heterogeneity according to the respondents' characteristics. The results indicate that the availability of parental leave provides benefits equivalent to an increase of 5.80 million won in annual salary and that offering childcare in the workplace has an effect equivalent to an increase of 5.37 million won in annual salary. Further, low-income groups, women, the younger generation, and parents of preschool children are most sensitive to the policy. Finally, small and medium-sized enterprises are less desirable to work for than large companies, but the implementation of work-family balance policies could change this preference.

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“…Our analysis implicitly assumes that the receipt of transfers does not imply any change in the behavior of individuals, specifically their labor market behavior, an assumption that is non‐trivial for unemployment benefits and family allowances. Nonetheless, this assumption is relatively weak in the Italian case, as unemployment benefits are, in most cases, provided for a limited amount of time and are not very generous (see Section 2.2); family allowances are also not generous (Del Boca et al ., ).…”

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A Micro‐Econometric Analysis of the Antipoverty Effect of Social Cash Transfers in Italy

Fabrizi

Ferrante

Pacei

2013

Review of Income and Wealth

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We analyze the anti‐poverty effect of social cash transfers using a micro‐econometric approach. Aggregate analyses, based on comparing average poverty indicators before and after public transfers, fail to address who receives the transfers and how the transfers are distributed among the poor. We consider three dichotomous outcome variables: (i) poverty status before the receipt of transfers; (ii) the receipt of transfers; and (iii) poverty status after the receipt of transfers. We use a trivariate probit model with sample selection, connecting the outcome variables to the characteristics of the household and its head. Our empirical results highlight that the Italian social transfers system overprotects certain household typologies at the expense of others, as social transfers are primarily awarded to employees with permanent positions and the elderly, while the system is not generous enough to large households with dependant children, the self‐employed, temporary contract workers, and the unemployed.

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Motherhood and market work decisions in institutional context: a European perspective

Cited by 146 publications

References 26 publications

Labor Force Participation of Women in the EU – What Role do Family Policies Play?

Labor Force Participation of Women in the EU – What Role do Family Policies Play?

Effect of Work-Family Balance Policy on Job Selection and Social Sustainability: The Case of South Korea

A Micro‐Econometric Analysis of the Antipoverty Effect of Social Cash Transfers in Italy

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