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Income and employment effects of health shocks : a test case for the German welfare state

Riphahn, Regina T. - 1998

the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294530

Female labor supply and parental leave benefits : the causal effect of paying higher transfers for a shorter period of time

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009

We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects. -- Female labor supply ; fertility ; child subsidy ; parents money

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808549

The employment of mothers : recent developments and their determinants in East and West Germany

Hanel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2011

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences disappear over time, and whether there are differences...

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Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2015

We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that had paid benefits for up to two years was replaced by an earnings related transfer which paid...

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Employment effects of payroll tax subsidies

Collischon, Matthias; Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2020

This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships between subsidized and non-subsidized labor demand. We apply an instrumental variables approach and use administrative data on German...

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Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany : patterns and developments

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014

aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360911

Intergenerational transmission of unemployment : evidence for German sons

Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - 2014

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German … and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers' unemployment is causal for offspring's employment … intergenerational unemployment transmission. This outcome is robust to alternative data structures and to tests at the intensive and …

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Employment effects of payroll taxes : an empirical test for Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Bauer, Thomas K. - 1998

payroll taxes, in particular social insurance contributions, are the culprit behind the growing unemployment problem. Using …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294529

Naturalization and labor market performance of immigrants in Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Saif, Salwan - 2018

market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011904906