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Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...
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Does Parental Leave Affect Fertility and Return-to-Work? Evidence from a "True Natural Experiment"
Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We study the causal effects of changes in parental leave provisions on fertility and return-towork behavior. We exploit a policy change that took place in 1990 in Austria which extended the maximum duration of parental leave from the child’s first to the child’s second birthday. As parental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762218
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Employment Effects of Educational Measures for Work-Injured People
Bach, Henning; Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Høgelund, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Vocational rehabilitation in the form of education is the cornerstone of governmental rehabilitation programs for the work-disabled in many countries. Merging a 2004 Danish survey to register information from the Danish National Board of Industrial Injuries, we assess the employment effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763911
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Parental Leave and Mothers' Careers: The Relative Importance of Job Protection and Cash Benefits
Lalive, Rafael; Schlosser, Analia; Steinhauer, Andreas; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Parental leave regulations in most OECD countries have two key policy instruments: job protection and cash benefits. This paper studies how mothers' return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of these key policy parameters. Exploiting a series of major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147294
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The Liberalisation of Maternity Leave Policy and the Return to the Work of Childbirth in Germany
Ondrich, Jan; Spiess, Katharina C.; Yang, Qing; Wagner, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998
German federal law has increased the potential duration of maternity leave five times since 1985. A theoretical model is presented that demonstates that the return to work hazard rate declines a potential increases and the cumulative return probability a potential duration cannot decline unless...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566468
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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
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Joint Leisure Before and After Retirement: A Double Regression Discontinuity Approach
Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; van Soest, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In the scant literature on partners' joint retirement decisions one of the explanations for joint retirement is … externalities in leisure. In this study, we investigate how retirement affects the hours of leisure together of individuals in a … couple. Exploiting the law on retirement age in France, we use a regression discontinuity approach to identify the causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884286
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Early Retirement and Post Retirement Health
Hallberg, Daniel; Johansson, Per; Josephson, Malin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age … for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884323
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Pappa Ante Portas: The Retired Husband Syndrome in Japan
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
employment between mandatory retirement age and full pension eligibility age, to estimate the causal effect of the husband …'s retirement on the wife's mental health. We find that adding one year to the time spent in retirement by Japanese husbands …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884370
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Work Capacity and Longer Working Lives in Belgium
Jousten, Alain; Lefèbvre, Mathieu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We explore the link between health indicators and employment rates of the population aged 55 or more. Our focus lies on work capacity as a key determinant of employment. Using cohort mortality information as a proxy for overall health outcomes, we establish a substantial untapped work capacity...
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