How Young Mothers Rely on Kin Networks and Formal Childcare to Avoid Becoming NEET in the Netherlands [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2022 Motherhood is often cited as one of the main reasons for young women to become NEET (not in employment, education, or training). Given the potential long-term negative implications of NEET status, it is important to understand which types of resources ...
Alexander Dicks +3 more
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Uptake of Childcare Arrangements—Grandparental Availability and Availability of Formal Childcare [PDF]
Social Sciences, 2021 Grandparents constitute an important source of childcare to many parents. Focusing on the Belgian context, this paper improves our understanding of childcare decision-making by investigating how formal childcare availability and availability of ...
Naomi Biegel +2 more
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Parental Leave, (In)formal Childcare and Long-term Child Outcomes [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017 There is a strong debate about who should provide care to young children. Governments offer two alternative types of institutions: formal childcare and parental leave.
Danzer, Natalia +3 more
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Subsidising Formal Childcare Versus Grandmothers' Time: Which Policy is More Effective? [PDF]
Economics: Journal Articles, 2021 This article quantifies the relative effectiveness of childcare subsidies and subsidies on grandmothers’ time on married mothers’ employment and fertility rates, paying special attention to heterogeneous effects. A heterogeneous agent model, populated by
Osuna Victoria
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Formal childcare services and fertility: the case of Italy
Genus, 2023 This study aims at examining the fertility impact of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services for children under three in Italy. ECEC is a social investment-oriented family policy that might have more beneficial effects on fertility than ...
Stefani Scherer +2 more
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Genus, 2023 Research indicates that the uptake of formal childcare for children under age 3 is lower among migrant origin parents than among native parents in most European countries, and that these differentials extend to the second generation. Despite considerable
Julie Maes +3 more
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Formal Childcare Use and Mothers' Fertility Intentions and Behaviours: Evidence in Italy by Migration Background. [PDF]
Eur J PopulAbstract Numerous studies have explored the influences of family policies, such as formal childcare use, and migration on fertility, with mixed findings. However, limited research has examined how formal childcare use (or the lack thereof) affects both fertility intentions and behaviours among native and migrant ...
Miaci E +4 more
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Access to formal childcare among families of newly arrived migrants from non-EU countries in France
Genus, 2023 Labour force participation of female migrants from non-EU countries, particularly recently arrived, is lower than among other groups and more affected by the presence of children.
Tatiana Eremenko, Anne Unterreiner
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Not one but two: cross-sectional associations among repeat pregnancy, maternal mental health and child cognitive outcomes among adolescent and young mothers in South Africa [PDF]
BMJ Global HealthBackground Globally, adolescent mothers and their children have poorer health outcomes. However, little is known regarding having multiple children as an adolescent.
Lorraine Sherr +10 more
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Is Targeting Formal Childcare the Best Way to Meet the Needs of Families in Britain? [PDF]
, 2017 The overall aim of this paper is to examine the types and combinations of childcare being used by parents in Britain, and to compare how this childcare usage may vary between families, in order to critically examine parental childcare needs.
Hollingworth, K, Owen, C, Simon, A
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