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Financial Support for Families with Children and Its Trade-Offs: Balancing Redistribution and Parental Work Incentives
Myck, Michal; Kurowska, Anna; Kundera, Michal - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In the end these trade-offs determine the effectiveness of policy with respect to the material situation of families and employment of their parents. We analyse several kinds of...
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For Some Mothers More than Others: How Children Matter for Labour Market Outcomes When Both Fertility and Female Employment Are Low
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children. Among families with at least one child we identify the...
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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...
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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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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 … results indicate substantial non-random selection into employment for women hence leading to biased OLS estimates. The wage …-selection model, the wage differential between mothers and childless women reduces to just 10%-13%. …
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Child Care Costs and Mothers' Labor Supply: An Empirical Analysis for Germany
Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
estimation. In contrast to a previous German study, I find significant effects of child care costs on mother's labor supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069010
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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
-run and long-term effects of childbirth on married women's employment and working hours. Estimation results show that these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069107
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A Lost Generation? Long Term Socioeconomic Outcomes in Orphans
Bozzoli, Carlos - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Previous research on orphanhood has established that parental death has a negative effect in terms of school enrollment and grade progression, but the relation between orphanhood and socioeconomic outcomes in young adults has been largely ignored in the literature. In this paper, I use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682203
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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
Microsimulation methods and models of labor market decisions have attracted a lot of attention as an approach to the assessment of consequences of family related policies in the area of labor market and fertility. We set these models in the context of relevant demographic theories and present...
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Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?
Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labor force participation of females from...
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