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Parents Under Stress - Evaluating Emergency Childcare Policies During the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Germany
Schüller, Simone; Steinberg, Hannah - 2021
policies did not considerably affect parents’ life satisfaction, partnership satisfaction or mental health, they have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227607
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Mothers' Care : Reversing Early Childhood Health Shocks Through Parental Investments
Bellés-Obrero, Cristina - 2019
their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son’s of affected parents at delivery. Yet …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892138
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Parental Time Restrictions and the Cost of Children : Insights from a Survey Among Mothers
Borah, Melanie - 2019
In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental … with children in Germany. Our study confirms that the monetary cost of children is substantial and increases with parental … sizeable for families with children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892262
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Parental Well-Being in Times of COVID-19 in Germany
Huebener, Mathias - 2020
We examine the differential effects of COVID-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in … groups. In a difference-in-differences design, we compare the change for individuals with children to the change for … individuals without children, accounting for unrelated trends as well as potential survey mode and context effects. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825395
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Parental Allowance Increase and Labor Supply : Evidence from a Czech Reform
Grossmann, Jakub; Pertold, Filip; Šoltés, Michal - 2023
labor supply of parents in the Czech Republic. Drawing a parental allowance does not preclude labor market activity, which … allowance. The labor market participation of mothers of young children decreased by 6 percentage points (15%). The estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358097
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The Effect of Childcare on Parental Earnings Trajectories
Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2021
We study the effect of institutional childcare on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening of childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare facilities in the year of birth of the first child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314799
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Job Satisfaction and Trade Union Membership in Germany
Goerke, Laszlo; Huang, Yue - 2022
Using panel data from 1985 to 2019, we provide the first comprehensive investigation of the relationship between trade union membership and job satisfaction in Germany. Cross-sectional analyses reveal a negative correlation, while fixed effects estimates indicate an insignificant relationship....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013353480
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Worker Satisfaction and Worker Representation: The Jury Is Still Out
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2022
This paper investigates the relationship between worker job satisfaction and workplace representation, to include works councils as well as local union agencies. The paper marks a clear shift away from the traditional focus on union membership per se because its sample of EU nations have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290077
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Happiness of Economists
Feld, Lars P.; Necker, Sarah; Frey, Bruno S. - 2014
We study the importance of economists' professional situation toward their life satisfaction based on a unique survey of mostly academic economists. On average, economists report to be highly happy with life. Satisfaction is positively related to spending more time on doing research. The lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435798
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How Job Changes Affect People's Lives - Evidence from Subjective Well-being Data
Chadi, Adrian; Hetschko, Clemens - 2016
For representative German panel data, we show that voluntary job switching leads to relatively high levels of life satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas the impact of exogenously triggered job changes is ambiguous. Risk aversion interacts negatively with this effect in life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522429