Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Kuhn, Moritz; Tertilt, Michèle - 2020
The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging … situations. We look at Germany and quantify the macroeconomic importance of working parents. We document that 26 percent of the … German work force have children aged 14 or younger and estimate that 11 percent of workers and 8 percent of all working hours …