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Parental leave reform and long-run earnings of mothers
Frodermann, Corinna; Wrohlich, Katharina; Zucco, Aline - 2020
Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women's employment rates but decrease their wages in case of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012155784
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How changes in benefits entitlement affect the duration of unemployment
Ours, Jan C. van; Vodopivec, Milan - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002754961
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Employment effects of welfare reforms : evidence from a dynamic structural life-cycle model
Haan, Peter (contributor); Prowse, Victoria (contributor);  … - 2008
place in Germany, towards a more Anglo-American system in which a large proportion of transfers are paid to the working poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726084
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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003353592
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Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility? : evidence from a structural model
Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009
In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003889513
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Pension wealth and maternal employment : evidence from a reform of the German child care pension benefit
Thiemann, Andreas - 2015 - Ausgabebezeichnung
This paper uses administrative data to investigate how a change in pension wealth affects a mother’s employment decision after child birth. I exploit the extension of the child care pension benefit in 1992 as a natural experiment in a regression discontinuity design to estimate short- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011311096
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Two steps forward - one step back? : evaluating contradicting child care policies in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014 - (This version: June 27 2014)
reforms in Germany that were introduced simultaneously in August 2013. First, a legal claim to subsidized child care became …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010374162
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The effects of family policy on mothers' labor supply : combining evidence from a structural model and a natural experiment
Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014
employment effects of these policies for mothers in Germany. In particular we estimate a structural labor supply model and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010259541
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Building the minimum wage : Germany's first sectoral minimum wage and its impact on wages in the construction industry
Rattenhuber, Pia - 2011
-employee data. Estimation results reveal a sizable positive average impact on wages in East Germany and no effect in West Germany …The very first minimum wage in Germany was introduced in 1997 for blue-collar workers in sub-sectors of the … the distribution suggesting spillover effects to wages where the minimum is not binding. -- Minimum wage ; construction …
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Unintended consequences of welfare reform : the case of divorced parents
Francesconi, Marco; Rainer, Helmut; Klaauw, Wilbert van der - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793507