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Retirement Responses to a Generous Pension Reform: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Eastern Europe
Danzer, Alexander M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
The retirement decision is under researched in developing and emerging countries, despite the topic's close relation to … threefold increase in the legal minimum pension on labor supply and retirement behaviour at older ages. Applying difference … income effect that caused additional retirement of 30 to 47 percent. Additional evidence suggests that retirement incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555911
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The Effects of Conflict on Fertility in Rwanda
Schindler, Kati; Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different population sub-groups. The authors pool three nationally representative demographic and health surveys from before and after the genocide in Rwanda, identifying conflict exposure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216694
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Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking individuals depend, inter alia, on life expectancy and the design of the … full pensionable age generates the largest responses in labor supply and retirement behavior. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009195630
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Long-Term Care Insurance and Carers' Labor Supply: A Structural Model
Geyer, Johannes; Korfhage, Thorben - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
In Germany, individuals in need of long-term care receive support through benefits of the long-term care insurance. A central goal of the insurance is to support informal care provided by family members. Care recipients can choose between benefits in kind (formal home care services) and benefits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010942858
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Distributional and Behavioral Effects of the Gender Wage Gap
Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015
The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically lower than male wages, what are the distributional...
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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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The Effects of Family Policy on Mothers' Labor Supply: Combining Evidence from a Structural Model and a Natural Experiment
Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
Parental leave and subsidized child care are prominent examples of family policies supporting the reconciliation of family life and labor market careers for mothers. In this paper, we combine different empirical strategies to evaluate the employment effects of these policies for mothers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752456
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Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe
Kaiser, Lutz C. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963778
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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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Why Are Mothers Working Longer Hours in Austria than in Germany?: A Comparative Micro Simulation Analysis
Dearing, Helene; Hofer, Helmut; Lietz, Christine; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are much higher among Austrian mothers. In order to find out to what extent these differences can be attributed to differences in the tax transfersystem, we perform a comparative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068654