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on the employment rate, working time and hourly wage. We estimate these effects by integrating Inverse Probability … small positive short-run impacts on working time and larger ones on the employment rate, but only for employees at high risk … of leaving to early retirement. The wage is not affected …
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This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of children and spousal specialization in home...
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increased women's normal retirement age (NRA) in two steps from age 62 to age 63 first and then to age 64. At the same time …We investigate the responsiveness of individual retirement decisions to changes in financial incentives. A reform … retirement at the previous NRA became possible at a benefit discount. Since the reform affected specific birth cohorts we can …
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Public child care is expected to assist families in reconciling work with family life. Yet, empirical evidence for the relevance of public child care to maternal employment is inconclusive. We exploit the introduction of a legal claim to a place in kindergarten in Germany, which was contingent...
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This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time … for childless couples. Work timing also influences the joint time that is spent on household chores, but the effect is …
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In this paper, we assess the impact of firms introducing part-time work schemes for gradual labour market exit of … combine high-quality survey and administrative data. Our results suggest that partial or gradual retirement options offered by …
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relevance of the labor demand component in retirement decisions, we consider a trade liberalization between Switzerland and the … early retirement behavior in three periods (pre-liberalization, announcement, and implementation) for three groups of … retirement in MRA is not explained by more firms' exits, nor by more early retirement among the exiting firms. It is rather the …
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We provide a novel interpretation of the estimated treatment effects from evaluations of parental leave reforms. Accounting for the counterfactual mode of care is crucial in the analysis of child outcomes and potential mediators. We evaluate a large and generous parental leave extension in...
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parental time investment measured by time out of the labor force is higher for first-borns at ages 2-4, suggesting that the …
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Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...
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