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This study is the first to estimate mother's marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for job amenities directly. Its identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can decide whether and when to return to their guaranteed...
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. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences … time. -- employment ; mothers ; parental leave ; East Germany ; child care …
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data on West Germany are used and we exploit the expansionary family policy during the late 1980s and 1990s for …
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This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefits on fertility. I use the unanticipated reform of 2007 to assess how a move from a means-tested to an earnings-related benefit affects higher-order births. By using data from the Mikrozensus, I find that...
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The present paper quantifies the economic consequences of eliminating the system of income splitting in Germany. We …
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supply ; cognitive skills ; family policy ; Germany …
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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. -- Female labor supply ; fertility ; child subsidy ; parents money
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. The present paper highlights this problem referring to institutional details and empirical results related to Germany and …
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exploit the setting of the German reunification. A state socialist country, East Germany strongly encouraged mothers to … participate in the labor market full-time, whereas West Germany propagated a more traditional male breadwinner-model. After …
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