Advances in explaining women's employment patterns

Steiber, Nadia; Haas, Barbara

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“…Their findings suggest that having young children affects women's employment significantly less in countries that provide public childcare and parental leave, and that national gender cultures do not explain the crossnational differences in women's employment. Similar conclusions have been reached by Steiber andHaas (2012) (2012) for 26 countries and by Uunk et al (2005) for 13 European countries. Finally, using data for 18 OECD countries, Nieuwenhuis et al (2012) demonstrated that the cross-country differences in the effects of parenthood on women's employment are attributable not just to family policies, but also to labor market structures (unemployment rates and the size of the service sector).…”

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“…This evidence comes mainly from single-country studies or studies that compared two or three countries. There are fewer multi-national studies that would allow us to draw conclusions about the magnitude of the effect across country contexts (Steiber and Haas 2012). One of the few multi-national studies that have been carried out is by Pettit and Hook (2005), who used cross-sectional data on 19 European countries and compared the employment rates of childless women with those of women in households with small children.…”

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The Causal Effects of the Number of Children on Female Employment - Do European Institutional and Gender Conditions Matter?

Baranowska-Rataj

Matysiak

2016

J Labor Res

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This paper contributes to the discussion on the effects of the number of children on female employment in Europe. Most previous research has either (1) compared these effects across countries, assuming an exogeneity of family size; or (2) used methods that dealt with endogeneity of family size, but that focused on single countries. We combine these two approaches by taking a cross-country comparative perspective and applying quasi-experimental methods. We use instrumental variable models, with multiple births as instruments, and the harmonized data from the European Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). We examine the cross-country variation in the effects of family size on maternal employment across groups of European countries with different welfare state regimes. This step gives us an opportunity to investigate whether the revealed crosscountry differences in the magnitude of the effect of the family size on maternal employment can be attributed to the diversity of European institutional arrangements, as well as the cultural and the structural conditions for combining work and family duties.

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The Causal Effects of the Number of Children on Female Employment - Do European Institutional and Gender Conditions Matter?

Baranowska-Rataj

Matysiak

2016

J Labor Res

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“…These findings contribute to a recent strand of cross-national research that indicates substantial subgroup-specific variation in the effects of social policies on mothers' employment. As Steiber and Haas (2012) argue, the estimation of 'mean policy effects' for the general population conceals important variations in the effect of policies on specific groups. This study supports this argument by showing that it holds for paternal employment behaviour as well: fathers with lower levels of education are most responsive to family allowances.…”

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Family policies and fathers’ working hours: cross-national differences in the paternal labour supply

Bünning

Pollmann‐Schult

2015

Work, Employment and Society

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractDespite extensive research on the effect of family policies on the labour supply of mothers, little is known about how these policies affect fathers' labour market outcomes. Using European panel data (EU-SILC) from 2003 to 2009 and multi-level models, this study analyses the effect of family policies on fathers' working hours. The results indicate that fathers work less than childless men if they live in countries that offer well paid, non-transferable parental leave for fathers, short parental leave for mothers and generous family allowances. The effects, however, are strongly contingent on fathers' educational levels. Whereas short maternal leaves are associated with shorter working hours among highly educated fathers, generous family allowances and father friendly parental leave schemes reduce the working hours of less educated fathers.

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“…Consequently, state support for maternal employment tends to be highly correlated with cultural norms about maternal employment. Steiber and Haas (2012) suggest that studying migrants is a promising approach to comparing the impact of structural versus cultural factors in shaping maternal employment because migrants were socialized according to the cultural norms in their country of origin, but are exposed to the institutional setting of the country of destination (cf. also Grunow and Müller 2012).…”

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The Impact of Social Support Networks on Maternal Employment: A Comparison of West German, East German and Migrant Mothers of Pre-School Children

Wagner¹

2012

SSRN Journal

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Advances in explaining women's employment patterns

Cited by 140 publications

References 68 publications

The Causal Effects of the Number of Children on Female Employment - Do European Institutional and Gender Conditions Matter?

The Causal Effects of the Number of Children on Female Employment - Do European Institutional and Gender Conditions Matter?

Family policies and fathers’ working hours: cross-national differences in the paternal labour supply

The Impact of Social Support Networks on Maternal Employment: A Comparison of West German, East German and Migrant Mothers of Pre-School Children

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