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This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...
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which can only be approximated using just the IAB employment sample. Our IV fixed effects estimation results suggest that … women?s labor supply is endogenously determined, whereas men?s employment histories can be treated as exogenous. Career … interruptions reduce the wage rates of both men and women. Moreover, the wage cuts resulting from unemployment, parental leave and …
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lower wages than comparable full-time workers. The results further point out that more experienced women, who accumulated … more human capital during their working life, face higher wage cuts for reduced working hours then women who spent only few … differentials between full-time and part-time employees, leads one to suppose that the existing wage gap in Germany may impede women …
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In this paper the impact of working hours on the gross hourly wage rate of West German women is analyzed. We use a …, the hourly wage rate of jobs with 20 to 38 hours does not di¤er significantly. Third, for West German women, the … estimation. …
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faced the same hours flexibility as Dutch employees. This holds both for men and for women. Another piece of good news is …
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women and by the level of qualification. On the basis of a shift-share analysis we conclude that the shift in industrial …
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This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits and female labor force participation. While research on the role of cognitive skills for individual labor market success has a long tradition in economics, comparatively little is known about the channels through which...
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We estimate a structural life-cycle model of fertility and female labour supply and use it to evaluate the effects of a number of key family policy measures based on data for Germany. Parental leave benefits, child benefits and subsidized childcare are found to have substantial fertility...
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Based on a structural model of fertility and female labour force supply with unobserved heterogeneity and state dependence, we evaluate the 2007 reform of parental leave benefits in Germany, which replaced a flat, means-tested benefit by a generous earnings-related transfer. The model predicts a...
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Ziel dieses Beitrags ist die Quantifizierung der mit der Einführung des Arbeitslosengeldes II verbundenen Arbeitsangebots- und Beschäftigungseffekte. Zusätzlich wird ein Reformszenario simuliert, welches die Anreizstruktur im Niedriglohnbereich verbessern soll. Methodisch wird ein...
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