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Parental Leave Benefit and Differential Fertility Responses: Evidence from a German Reform
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2015
This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefits on fertility. I use the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307065
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Employment protection and fertility: Evidence from the 1990 Italian reform
Prifti, Ervin; Vuri, Daniela - 2012
The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of … positive and sizable effect on fertility decisions of Italian working women. This result is robust to a number of checks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281932
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The Distributional Impact of Labour Market Reforms: A Model-Based Assessment
Röger, Werner; Varga, Janos; in't Veld, Jan; Vogel, Lukas - 2019
This paper studies the effects of labour market reforms on the functional distribution of income in a DSGE model (Roeger et al., 2008) with skill differentiation, in which households supply three types of labour: low-, medium- and high-skilled. The households receive income from labour, tangible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141119
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The Distributional Impact of Labour Market Reforms : A Model-Based Assessment
Roeger, Werner - 2019
This paper studies the effects of labour market reforms on the functional distribution of income in a DSGE model (Roeger et al., 2008) with skill differentiation, in which households supply three types of labour: low-, medium- and high-skilled. The households receive income from labour, tangible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859991
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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women: Experimental Evidence from Childcare
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara; … - 2013
Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323026
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Parental Allowance Increase and Labor Supply: Evidence from a Czech Reform
Grossmann, Jakub; Pertold, Filip; Šoltés, Michal - 2023
We study the effect of a CZK 80,000 (36%) increase in parental allowance, a universal basic income-type benefit, on the labor supply of parents in the Czech Republic. Drawing a parental allowance does not preclude labor market activity, which allows us to study the income effect. After the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290277
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Parental Allowance Increase and Labor Supply : Evidence from a Czech Reform
Grossmann, Jakub; Pertold, Filip; Šoltés, Michal - 2023
We study the effect of a CZK 80,000 (36%) increase in parental allowance, a universal basic income-type benefit, on the labor supply of parents in the Czech Republic. Drawing a parental allowance does not preclude labor market activity, which allows us to study the income effect. After the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358097
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Imperfect Competition, General Equilibrium and Unemployment
Gersbach, Hans; Schniewind, Achim - 1999
We analyze whether different learning abilities of firms with respect to general equilibrium effects lead to different levels of unemployment. We consider a general equilibrium model where firms in one sector compete à la Cournot and a real wage rigidity leads to unemployment. If firms consider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010314992
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Fertility, mortality, and the developed worlds demographic transition
Fehr, Hans; Jokisch, Sabine; Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2004
changes in fertility and mortality on the developed world's demographic transition. The model features three regions – the U ….S., Japan, and the EU-15 – and incorporates age- and time-specific fertility and mortality rates, detailed fiscal institutions … economic consequences of both higher fertility and lower mortality rates. The simulations indicate very minor effects on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261077
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Efficiency and Labor Market Dynamics in a Model of Labor Selection
Chugh, Sanjay K.; Merkl, Christian - 2015
This paper characterizes efficient labor-market allocations in a labor selection model. The model’s crucial aspect is cross-sectional heterogeneity for new job contacts, which leads to an endogenous selection threshold for new hires. With cross-sectional dispersion calibrated to microeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307140