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Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits

Launov, Andrey - 2010

The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a … recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …

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Trapped at Home : The Effect of Mothers' Temporary Labor Market Exits on Their Subsequent Work Career

Drange, Nina - 2012

This paper investigates how mothers' decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers. Identification is based on the introduction of the Cash-for-Care program in Norway in 1998, which increased mothers' incentives to withdraw from the labor market when their...

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What Happens to the Husband's Retirement Decision When the Wife's Retirement Incentives Change?

Selin, Hakan - 2012

Several studies have documented a strong correlation in the timing of spouses' retirement decisions. However, considerably less is known about the causal impact of one spouse's retirement incentives on the retirement decision of the other spouse. Before, but not after, 2001 broad categories of...

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Adieu Rabenmutter - The Effect of Culture on Fertility, Female Labour Supply, the Gender Wage Gap and Childcare

Borck, Rainald - 2021

This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively correlated with each other, while the gender wage gap seems...

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The Employment of Mothers - Recent Developments and Their Determinants in East and West Germany

Broadway, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2021

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences disappear over time, and whether there are differences...

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Female Labor Supply and Parental Leave Benefits - The Causal Effect of Paying Higher Transfers for a Shorter Period of Time

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2021

We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects

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Jobs für Deutschland

Burda, Michael C.; Deubel, Ingolf; Franz, Wolfgang; … - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 59 (2006) 12, pp. 05-11

Abschluss der ifo Jahresversammlung 2006 war eine hochrangig besetzten Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema "Jobs für Deutschland". Diskussionsteilnehmer waren - neben Minister Huber und Prof. Sinn - Prof. Michael Burda, Ph.D., Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Prof. Dr. Ingolf Deubel, Staatsminister der...

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Für einen moderaten allgemeinen Mindestlohn

Rürup, Bert - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 61 (2008) 06, pp. 05-07

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Hände weg von Mindestlöhnen

Franz, Wolfgang; Wiegard, Wolfgang; Mauro, Beatrice Weder di - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 61 (2008) 06, pp. 08-12

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Mindestlöhne – Irrweg aus juristischer Perspektive

Möschel, Wernhard - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 61 (2008) 06, pp. 28-30

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