CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Szobonyáné Szabó-Morvai, Ágnes |
|---|---|
| Title | Essays on maternal employment policies |
| Summary | The thesis consists of one co-authored and two single-authored chapters on the effect of family policies on maternal labor supply. Each chapter consists of empirical investigations of the family policies, using Hungarian Labor Force Survey microdata. Chapter 1 examines the effect of childcare availability on the labor supply of mothers of 3-year-olds. We exploit a date-of-birth eligibility cutoff at the age of 3, where on one side of the cutoff childcare availability is high, whereas on the other it is low. By applying novel measurement strategy, we overcome some data issues, and show that the results are robust to various specifications. We find that a 10 percentage point increase in childcare coverage induces 1.8 percentage increase in maternal labor supply. In Chapter 2 I use difference-in-differences method to estimate the causal effect of the maternal benefit (GYED) on maternal labor supply and employment probabilities. I find that in the first two years after giving birth, there is no significant effect, however, from the third year, the maternal leave affects maternal employment probability negatively. Chapter 3 provides an analysis of the START Plusz hiring tax credit program. The program is available for mothers with children under 4, and I include mothers of 5-7 as a control group. The findings of the analysis show that before the economic crisis it had had a positive significant effect on some subgroups of the targeted population. |
| Supervisor | Earle, John S.; Kezdi, Gabor |
| Department | Economics PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/szabo_agnes.pdf |
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