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What Makes Single Mothers Expand or Reduce Employment?

Hancioglu, Mine; Hartmann, Bastian - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

To explore single mothers' labor market participation we analyze specific circumstances and dynamics in their life courses. We focus on the question which individual and institutional factors determine both professional advancement and professional descent. Due to dynamics in women's life course...

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Culture, Policies and Labor Market Outcomes

Giavazzi, Francesco; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Serafinelli, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We study whether cultural attitudes towards gender, the young, and leisure are significant determinants of the evolution over time of the employment rates of women and of the young, and of hours worked in OECD countries. Beyond controlling for a larger menu of policies, institutions and...

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Optimal Tax Progressivity: An Analytical Framework

Heathcote, Jonathan; Storesletten, Kjetil; Violante, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

earnings risk. At the same time, progressivity reduces incentives to work and to invest in skills, and aggravates the …

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Distributional and Behavioral Effects of the Gender Wage Gap

Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015

The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically lower than male wages, what are the distributional...

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Nature or Nurture? Learning and Female Labour Force Dynamics

Fogli, Alessandra; Veldkamp, Laura - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Much of the increase in female labour force participation in the post-war period has come from the entry of married women with young children. Accompanying this change has been a rise in cultural acceptance of maternal employment. We argue that the concurrent S shaped rise in maternal...

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Beyond Inequality Accounting: Marital Sorting and Couple Labor Supply

Pestel, Nico - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly …. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of observed and randomly matched couples are compared to each other …. Earnings of hypothetical couples are adjusted for changes in hours worked given the differences in the household context using …

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Two Steps Forward - One Step Back?: Evaluating Contradicting Child Care Policies in Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Wrohlich, Katharina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

We apply a structural model of mothers’ labor supply and child care choices to evaluate the effects of two childcare reforms in Germany that were introduced simultaneously in August 2013. First, a legal claim to subsidized child care became effective for all children aged one year or older....

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Explaining Age and Gender Differences in Employment Rates: A Labor Supply Side Perspective

Humpert, Stephan; Pfeifer, Christian - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to explain the lower employment rates of older workers and women. The basic rationale is that workers choose non-employed if their reservation wages are larger than the offered wages. Whereas the offered wages...

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Structural Labor Supply Models and Wage Exogeneity

Löffler, Max; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

There is still considerable dispute about the magnitude of labor supply elasticities. While differences in micro and macro estimates are recently attributed to frictions and adjustment costs, we show that relatively low labor supply elasticities derived from microeconometric models can also be...

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Aggregation and Labor Supply Elasticities

Kneip, Alois; Merz, Monika; Storjohann, Lidia - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

The aggregate Frisch elasticity of labor supply has played a key role in business cycle analysis. This paper develops a statistical aggregation procedure which allows forworker heterogeneity in observables and unobservables and is applicable to an individual labor supply function with...

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