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The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Germany
Cornelißen, Thomas; Pfeifer, Christian - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized...
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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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Betreuung von Schulkindern: ein weiterer Schlüssel zur Aktivierung ungenutzter Arbeitskräftepotenziale?
Tobsch, Verena - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
Wenn es um die Frage der Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf geht, wird meist die Betreuungsproblematik von erwerbswilligen und erwerbstätigen Müttern mit Kleinkindern betrachtet. Diese Analysen zeigen jedoch, dass ein Ausbau der Betreuung von Schulkindern in Deutschland ähnliche Effekte...
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The Gender Earnings Gap inside a Russian Firm: First Evidence from Personnel Data - 1997 to 2002 ; Updated Version
Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Zaiceva, Anzelika - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
determinants of the gender earnings gap in an internal labor market during late transition. The gap is sizable but declines … strongly over the entire period. Gender earnings differentials are largest for production workers who constitute the largest … by observable characteristics at the mean and across the wage distribution. Our analysis also reveals that the earnings …
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The Impact on Earnings When Entering Self-Employment: Evidence for Germany
Martin, Johannes - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
Using data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) earnings differentials between self-employed and wage … considerably higher earnings than wage-employed workers. Furthermore, there is a significant and positive effect on earnings when …
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Female Labor Supply and Parental Leave Benefits: The Causal Effect of Paying Higher Transfers for a Shorter Period of Time
Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects.
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The Introduction of a Short-Term Earnings-Related Parental Leave Benefit System and Differential Employment Effects
Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
German family policy underwent a reform in 2007, when the new instrument of "Elterngeld" replaced the previous "Erziehungsgeld". The transfer programs differ in various dimensions. We study the effects on the labor supply of young mothers, by comparing behavior before and after the reform. We...
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Maternal Employment and Happiness: The Effect of Non-Participation and Part-Time Employment on Mothers' Life Satisfaction
Berger, Eva M. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
individual fixed effects, I find that both the pecuniary effects (foregone earnings) and the non-pecuniary effects (psychological …
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Work Hours Constraints and Health
Bell, David; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important not only at the individual level but also for governmental formation of work time policy. Our study investigates this question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between...
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Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples: Are There Spillovers?
Wunder, Christoph; Heineck, Guido - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
We analyze how well-being is related to working time preferences and hours mismatch. Selfreported measures of life satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results indicate that well-being is generally lower among workers with working time mismatch. Particularly...
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