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parents with children born shortly after and before the coming into effect of the law on 1 January 2007 yields unbiased … estimates of the reform effects, because at the time when these children were conceived none of the parents knew that the …
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Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) allows for taking into account two political regimes and … that in both parts of Germany women's probability of having a first child is negatively correlated with both employment and …
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In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a consequence of job displacement. Using an event study approach we compare the birth rates of displaced women with those of women unaffected by job loss after establishing the...
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Increasing mothers’ labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a …
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children who entered school in the late 1960s through the late 1970s, a time when delaying enrolment was common, we investigate … the effect of age at school entry on educational attainment forWest and East Germany. Empirical results from linear …
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Using a two stage correspondence test methodology, this study tests employer priors against job-applicants with Arabic names compared to job-applicants with Swedish names. In the first stage, employers are sent CVs of equal observable quality. Thereafter, in the second stage, the CVs with Arabic...
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We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using alarge longitudinal data set for Portugal. Female managers can protect and mentor femaleemployees by paying them higher wages than male-led firms would do...
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Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientationand gender wage differentials in international data. More market orientation might be relatedto gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in product and labor markets and thegeneral absence of...
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Germany and the US considering fatal occupational injury risk. The Blinder-Oaxaca method for tobit models is used to decompose …
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