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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550326
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A Lost Generation? Long Term Socioeconomic Outcomes in Orphans
Bozzoli, Carlos - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
main outcomes of young adults, namely labor market attachment and fertility, and its relation to orphanhood status. The … key outcomes (e.g. schooling, work, fertility outcomes). It also provides information on so-called "parental investments … educational achievements, but that it may also leave a long-lasting "imprint" in terms of employment and fertility patterns. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682203
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A New Color in the Picture: The Impact of Educational Fields on Fertility in Western Germany
Oppermann, Anja - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
The extensive research on the impact of educational attainment on fertility behavior has been expanded by a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896262
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Family and Labor Market Choices: Requirements to Guide Effective Evidence-Based Policy
Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michal; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
assessment of consequences of family related policies in the area of labor market and fertility. We set these models in the … policy making with the aim to reconcile the objectives of increasing female participation and fertility and reducing poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896186
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The Bigger the Children, the Bigger the Worries: Are Preschoolers and Adolescents Affected Differently by Family Instability with Regard to Non-cognitive Skills?
Peter, Frauke H.; Spiess, C. Katharina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Substantial research on the relationship between family structures and child outcomes represents a considerable part of the literature. However, family structure provides a rather static view of the relationship of children's living arrangements and their well-being, revealing hardly anything...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868115
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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 disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010942876
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The Impact of Children on Female Earnings in Britain
Viitanen, Tarja K. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
participation and fertility. The wage differential between women without children and women with children is estimated to range … differential reduces to 16%-18% instrumenting participation and fertility, however, using the estimates obtained from the double …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963930
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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market
Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
This paper presents an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360170
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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market
Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
In this paper, I suggest an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963799
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Short-Run and Long-Term Effects of Childbirth on Mothers' Employment and Working Hours across Institutional Regimes: An Empirical Analysis Based on the European Community Household...
Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
The employment behavior of mothers is strongly influenced by labor market regulations and certain institutional arrangements, which both vary greatly across European countries. Using the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) 1994-2001 for Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069107