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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children

Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...

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Returns to Citizenship? Evidence from Germany's Recent Immigration Reforms

Gathmann, Christina; Keller, Nicolas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

major immigration reforms in Germany, a country with a relatively weak record of immigrant assimilation. For identification … after eight years of residency in Germany, while adults faced a 15-year residency requirement. Since 2000, all immigrants … performance. Based on the eligibility rules, we find few returns of citizenship for men, but substantial returns for women …

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The Evils of Forced Migration: Do Integration Policies Alleviate Migrants' Economic Situations?

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Link, Susanne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

forced to leave their homelands and settle within the new borders of West Germany. Subsequently, a law was introduced to …

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Centralized vs. Decentralized Wage Formation: The Role of Firms' Production Technology

Hirsch, Boris; Merkl, Christian; Müller, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

setting due to labor cost and straitjacket effects. As firms in Germany are allowed to choose their wage formation regime, we … test these two hypotheses with representative establishment data for West Germany. We find that establishments with …

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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...

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How General Is Human Capital? A Task-Based Approach

Gathmann, Christina; Schönberg, Uta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper studies how portable skill accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data on tasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital to measure the transferability of skills empirically. Our results on occupational mobility and wages show that labor...

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