Parental Leave Policies and Child Care Time in Couples after Childbirth
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- Christina Boll & Julian Leppin & Nora Reich, 2014. "Paternal childcare and parental leave policies: evidence from industrialized countries," Review of Economics of the Household, Springer, vol. 12(1), pages 129-158, March.
- Joanna Tyrowicz & Lucas van der Velde & Irene van Staveren, 2017.
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- Joanna Tyrowicz & Lucas van der Velde & Irene van Staveren, 2017. "Identifying Age Penalty in Women's Wages: New Method and Evidence from Germany 1984-2014," GRAPE Working Papers 24, GRAPE Group for Research in Applied Economics.
- Joanna Tyrowicz & Lucas van der Velde & Irene van Staveren, 2015. "Differences in the Estimates of Gender Wage Gap Over The Life Cycle," Working Papers 2015-29, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw.
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Child care; gender division of unpaid work; maternal employment; parental leave policy; parenting;NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2012-03-21 (All new papers)
- NEP-DEM-2012-03-21 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-EUR-2012-03-21 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-LAB-2012-03-21 (Labour Economics)
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