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The Employment of Mothers - Recent Developments and Their Determinants in East and West Germany
Broadway, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316151
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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. - 2021
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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316393
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Employment Effects of Payroll Tax Subsidies
Collischon, Matthias - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012913189
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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. - CESifo - 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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051591
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The Employment of Mothers - Recent Developments and their Determinants in East and West Germany
Hanel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - CESifo - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671706
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Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment -- Evidence for German Sons
Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - 2021
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 offsprings’ employment … intergenerational unemployment transmission. This outcome is robust to alternative data structures and to tests at the intensive and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315571
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Teenage Pregnancies and Births in Germany: Patterns and Developments
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - CESifo - 2014
aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781551