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Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - CESifo - 2012
identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers’ wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645655
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Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Parental Leave Reform
Danzer, Natalia; Lavy, Victor - CESifo - 2013
leave, i.e. by the time mothers spend at home with their newborn before returning to work. Employing RD and difference … extended parental leave mandate on standardized test scores at age 15, but that the subgroup of boys of highly educated mothers … have benefited from this reform while boys of low educated mothers were harmed by it. …
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Why Do We Ignore the Risk in Schooling Decisions?
Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - CESifo - 2014
While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877976
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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger; Zhang, Lei - CESifo - 2011
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
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Public Child Care and Mothers' Labor Supply - Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Schlotter, Martin - CESifo - 2013
Public child care is expected to assist families in reconciling work with family life. Yet, empirical evidence for the relevance of public child care to maternal employment is inconclusive. We exploit the introduction of a legal claim to a place in kindergarten in Germany, which was contingent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010638847
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The Willingness to Pay for Job Amenities: Evidence from Mothers' Return to Work
Felfe, Christina - CESifo - 2009
This study is the first to estimate mothers’ marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for job amenities directly. Its … identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can … wage. The results provide evidence that mothers are willing to sacrifice a significant fraction of their wage to reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005010151
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Hourly Wage Rate and Taxable Labor Income Responsiveness to Changes in Marginal Tax Rates
Blomquist, Sören; Selin, Håkan - CESifo - 2009
Recently, a voluminous literature estimating the taxable income elasticity has emerged as an important field in empirical public economics. However, to a large extent it is still unknown how the hourly wage rate, an important component of taxable income, reacts to changes in marginal tax rates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051531
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Scars of Recessions in a Rigid Labor Market
Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna - CESifo - 2015
We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working time and earnings by about 4.5% up to twelve years after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011200048
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Taxation and Parental Time Allocation under Different Assumptions on Altruism
Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - CESifo - 2014
In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752156
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Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates—to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates—in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
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