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Multitasking and wages
Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis J. - 2013
This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765032
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The willingness to pay for job amenities : evidence from mothers' return to work
Felfe, Christina - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872318
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The employment of mothers : recent developments and their determinants in East and West Germany
Hanel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2010
. 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697044
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Work and wage dynamics around childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - 2012
data on West Germany are used and we exploit the expansionary family policy during the late 1980s and 1990s for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488974
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Parental leave benefit and differential fertility responses : evidence from a German reform ; presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, May 2015
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 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280834
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Reforming family taxation in Germany : labor supply vs. insurance effects
Fehr, Hans; Kallweit, Manuel; Kindermann, Fabian - 2013
The present paper quantifies the economic consequences of eliminating the system of income splitting in Germany. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792209
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Taxing childcare : effects on family labor supply and children
Gathmann, Christina; Saß, Björn - 2012 - This version: March, 2012
supply ; cognitive skills ; family policy ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009518242
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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. - 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. -- Female labor supply ; fertility ; child subsidy ; parents money
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003817940
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Survivor benefits and the gender tax gap in public pension schemes : observations from Germany
Werding, Martin (contributor) - 2005
its legitimacy. As a result of fundamental changes in marriage behaviour and the typical division of labour between … incentive effects, especially for married women with some degree of labour-force attachment, that appear to be far from optimal …. The present paper highlights this problem referring to institutional details and empirical results related to Germany and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003204012
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Wind of change? : cultural determinants of maternal labor supply
Boelmann, Barbara; Raute, Anna; Schönberg, Uta - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520566