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Pensions and Fertility: Back to the Roots - The Introduction of Bismarck's Pension Scheme and the European Fertility Decline
Fenge, Robert; Scheubel, Beatrice - CESifo - 2013
Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … which a public pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension … system on fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691459
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Daddy Months
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2014
We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948876
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Mixing Bismarck and Child Pension Systems:An Optimum Taxation Approach
Fenge, Robert; Weizsäcker, Jakob von - CESifo - 2006
Bismarck pension system. Distortions of the fertility decision can be reduced through the introduction of a stronger child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765728
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Pension, Fertility, and Education
Meier, Volker; Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2005
human capital. In a framework with heterogeneity in productivity, and stochastic and endogenous investment in fertility and … displays both a benefit contingent on the contributions of children and a purely fertility-related component. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766193
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Are Family Allowances and Fertility-related pensions Siamese Twins?
Fenge, Robert; Meier, Volker - CESifo - 2004
-as-you-go pension system. Family allowances are compared to introducing a fertility-related component into the pension formula. In an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181485
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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 … fertility up to 5 years post reform. In addition to demonstrating an up to 22% increase in the fertility of tertiary educated … versus low educated women, I find a positive, statistically significant effect of increased benefits on fertility, driven …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946918
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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/10013020527
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Mixing Bismarck and Child Pension Systems : An Optimum Taxation Approach
Fenge, Robert - 2006
Bismarck pension system. Distortions of the fertility decision can be reduced through the introduction of a stronger child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779785
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Pensions and Fertility : Back to the Roots - The Introduction of Bismarck's Pension Scheme and the European Fertility Decline
Fenge, Robert; Scheubel, Beatrice - 2021
Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … which a public pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension … system on fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315719
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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