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Friday the 13th: The Empirics of Bad Luck
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - CESifo - 2014
by behavioral adjustments yet which are of considerable importance to one’s quality of life: employment, earnings and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948866
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Women's Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010
This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572535
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How to Avoid a Pension Crisis: A Question of Intelligent System Design
Cigno, Alessandro - CESifo - 2009
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051548
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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
We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers … differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives particularly for low … employment differences as East German women with low earnings potentials appear to adopt West German low employment patterns over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671706
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National Minimum Wage and Employment of Young Workers in the UK
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - CESifo - 2013
We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature …, we find a significant and negative employment effect for male workers at 21, which we believe to be an anticipation … effect on employment of young workers, with this effect possibly occurring already well in advance of reaching the threshold …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010668469
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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? Selective Features of Immigration to four major OECD Countries
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2008
, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406154
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Household Relational Contracts for Marriage, Fertility and Divorce
Fahn, Matthias; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2011
This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit, how many children to have and subsequently whether to stay together or separate. We make precise the idea that cooperation in a household can be supported by self interest....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371343
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International Migration of Couples
Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2014
We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples, and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases in the earnings of the primary earner. The effect of the earnings of the secondary earner may go either way....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877818
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Adieu Rabenmutter - The Effect of Culture on Fertility, Female Labour Supply, the Gender Wage Gap and Childcare
Borck, Rainald - CESifo - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833888
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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
. 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 our main hypothesis that any relative labor-market advantage of … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351470