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The Employment of Mothers - Recent Developments and their Determinants in East and West Germany
Hanel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - CESifo - 2010
. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671706
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Daddy Months
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2014
We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948876
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Mixing Bismarck and Child Pension Systems:An Optimum Taxation Approach
Fenge, Robert; Weizsäcker, Jakob von - CESifo - 2006
Bismarck pension system. Distortions of the fertility decision can be reduced through the introduction of a stronger child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765728
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Pension, Fertility, and Education
Meier, Volker; Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2005
human capital. In a framework with heterogeneity in productivity, and stochastic and endogenous investment in fertility and … displays both a benefit contingent on the contributions of children and a purely fertility-related component. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766193
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Are Family Allowances and Fertility-related pensions Siamese Twins?
Fenge, Robert; Meier, Volker - CESifo - 2004
-as-you-go pension system. Family allowances are compared to introducing a fertility-related component into the pension formula. In an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181485
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Pensions and Fertility: Back to the Roots - The Introduction of Bismarck's Pension Scheme and the European Fertility Decline
Fenge, Robert; Scheubel, Beatrice - CESifo - 2013
Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … which a public pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension … system on fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691459
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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children
Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - CESifo - 2012
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540257
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Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - CESifo - 2012
data on West Germany are used and we exploit the expansionary family policy during the late 1980s and 1990s for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645655
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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women: Experimental Evidence from Childcare
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara; … - CESifo - 2013
Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699659
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Trapped at Home: The Effect of Mothers' Temporary Labor Market Exits on their Subsequent Work Career
Drange, Nina; Rege, Mari - CESifo - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551015