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What Drives the Reversal of the Gender Education Gap? Evidence from Germany
Riphahn, Regina T. - 2015
We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on … family background nor labor market characteristics appear to be strongly associated with the gender education gap. There is … some evidence that the gender gap in upper secondary education reflects the rising share of single parent households which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020579
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Can Financial Incentives Reduce the Baby Gap? Evidence from a Reform in Maternity Leave Benefits
Raute, Anna - 2017
To assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby gap between high educated (high earning) and low educated (low earning) women, I exploit a major maternity leave benefit reform in Germany that considerably increases the financial incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946918
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Sustainability of German Fiscal Policy and Public Debt : Historical and Time Series Evidence for the Period 1850-2010
Burret, Heiko - 2013
cointegration and the estimation of Vector Autoregression (VAR) and Vector Error Correction Models (VECM). While we cannot reject …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085753
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Manipulating Fiscal Forecasts : Evidence from the German States
Kauder, Bjoern - 2017
We examine whether German state governments manipulated fiscal forecasts before elections. Our data set includes three fiscal measures over the period 1980-2014. The results do not show that electoral motives influenced fiscal forecasts in West German states. By contrast, East German state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962666
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Panel Cointegration Tests on the Fiscal Sustainability of German Laender
Burret, Heiko - 2014
This paper provides new evidence on the sustainability of public finances in German states (Laender) by exploiting a newly compiled database covering the years 1950‐2011. Unlike previous studies on Germany, we analyze fiscal sustainability by applying “second generation” panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047349
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Modeling Fiscal Sustainability in Dynamic Macro-Panels with Heterogeneous Effects : Evidence from German Federal States
Feld, Lars P. - 2018
In this paper, we extend Henning Bohn's (2008) fiscal sustainability test by allowing for slope heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence (CD). In particular, our econometric approach is the first that allows fiscal reaction functions (FRF) to capture unobserved heterogeneous effects from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917513
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Minimum Wage Incidence : The Case for Germany
Knabe, Andreas - 2008
affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a … employment - depending on the subsidies' incidence - and income effects. Wage subsidies also allow a more equal income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769311
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Taxing Childcare : Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children
Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - 2021
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315925
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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
birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316393
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Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2016
Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006606