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Women’s Fertility and Employment Decisions Under Two Political Systems – Comparing East and West Germany Before Reunification

Bredtmann, Julia; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra - 2009

Over the last decades fertility rates have decreased in most developed countries, while female labour force … participation has increased strongly over the same time period. To shed light on the relationship between women’s fertility and … drawing conclusions about the relevance of institutional factors for fertility and employment decisions. Our results suggest …

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The Impact of Demographic Change, Co-Morbidity and European Care Policies on the Choice of Care Arrangement

Meng, Annika - 2010

Recent literature on long-term care looks at the substitutability of informal and professional home-based care arrangements. Other factors that influence the utilization of informal care instead of formal care have been ignored in conditional analyses so far. However, regressors that represent...

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Sticky Prices vs. Sticky Information - A Cross-Country Study of Inflation Dynamics

Bredemeier, Christian - 2011

six countries (US, UK, Germany, France, Canada, and Japan). We evaluate the models‘ abilities to match empirical second …

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Job Security and Fertility : Evidence from German Reunification

Klemm, Marcus - 2013

German reunifi cation to study empirically the relationship between job security and fertility. The civil servant … security and fertility emerges for men, the paper demonstrates a clear link between labor market and demographic outcomes for … causal impact of job security on fertility. It shows that female civil servants are not primarily a selected group of very …

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Brother Sun, Sister Moon : The Lunar Cycle, Sunspots and the Frequency of Births

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Heining, Jörg; … - 2010

Based on multivariate linear regression models, we analyze the effect of the lunar cycle and the number of sunspots occurring on a particular day on the number of births using social security data and controlling for a number of other potential confounders. The daily number of births between...

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The Impact of a Large Parental Leave Benefit Reform on the Timing of Birth around the Day of Implementation

Tamm, Marcus - 2009

The introduction of the German parental leave benefit (Elterngeld) applied to all children born on January 1st, 2007 or later. The new Elterngeld considerably changed the amount of transfers to families during the first two years postpartum. We show that the incentives created by using a cut-off...

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Are My Neighbours Ageing Yet? Local Dimensions of Demographic Change in German Cities

Neumann, Uwe - 2013

In the discussion about demographic change, the regional dimension so far has played a subordinate role. Based on municipal data for the period between 1998 and 2008, this paper examines to what extent recent demographic change has affected the population of cities and neighborhoods, focusing on...

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Bridge Unemployment in Germany : Response in Labour Supply to an Increased Early Retirement Age

Giesecke, Matthias - 2013

This study examines an increase in the early retirement age from 60 to 63 for the group of older unemployed men in Germany. As consequence of this policy reform, the time to retirement is increased from the perspective of recently unemployed individuals and therefore serves as a source of...

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The Intra-Household Division of Labor – An Empirical Analysis of Spousal Influences on Individual Time Allocation

Bredtmann, Julia - 2010

Regarding total working hours, including both paid and unpaid labor, hardly any differences between German men and women exist. However, whereas men allocate most of their time to market work, women still do most of the non-market work. Using the German Time Use Surveys 1991/92 and 2001/02, this...

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Discrete Heterogeneity in the Impact of Health Shocks on Labour Market Outcomes

Schurer, Stefanie - 2010

Empirical evidence from the psychology literature suggests that reactions towards health shocks depend strongly on the personality trait of locus of control, which is usually unobservable to the analyst. In this paper, the role of this discrete heterogeneity in shaping the effects of health...

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