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Time Out for Childcare: Signalling and Earnings Rebound Effects for Men and Women

dc.contributor.authorStafford, Frank P.en_US
dc.contributor.authorSundström, Marianneen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-01T22:38:52Z
dc.date.available2010-06-01T22:38:52Z
dc.date.issued1996-09en_US
dc.identifier.citationStafford, Frank P.; SundstrÖm, Marianne (1996). "Time Out for Childcare: Signalling and Earnings Rebound Effects for Men and Women." LABOUR 10(3): 609-629. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/75622>en_US
dc.identifier.issn1121-7081en_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-9914en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/75622
dc.description.abstractThe wage cost of time out of the labor force for childcare is important in order to understand the functioning of labor markets and for public policy. This paper reviews the literature and identifies several limitations. Using employment records of a large Swedish company over the period 1983-88, we demonstrate an alternative approach for estimating earnings effects and find a year out costs 1.7 percent of earnings for a woman and 5.2 percent for a man. This large effect for men raises questions of signalling costs. For both men and women, earnings‘'rebound'’for time out in the more distant past.en_US
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dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Ltden_US
dc.rights1996 Fondazione Giacomo Brodolinien_US
dc.titleTime Out for Childcare: Signalling and Earnings Rebound Effects for Men and Womenen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelEconomicsen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelBusinessen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumFrank P. Stafford, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.en_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherMarianne SundstrÖm, Demography Unit, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.en_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/75622/1/j.1467-9914.1996.tb00102.x.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1467-9914.1996.tb00102.xen_US
dc.identifier.sourceLABOURen_US
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