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Who are the essential and frontline workers?

Blau, Francine D.; Koebe, Josefine; Meyerhofer, Pamela - 2020

definition that may inform additional research and policy discussion and provide data on the demographic and labor market … demand at that time (Vavra, 2020). We find that the broader group of essential workers comprises a large share of the labor … force and tends to mirror its demographic and labor market characteristics. In contrast, the narrower category of frontline …

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Wages and ageing: is there evidence for the inverse-U profile?

Myck, Michał - 2007

cohort effects and selection out of employment which seem crucial in determining the downward-sloping part of the inverse …

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Income Taxation and Household Size: Would French Family Splitting Make German Families Better off?

Baclet, Alexandre; Dell, Fabien; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2005

In this paper, we address the question whether family support via the income tax system is more generous in France than in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to compare effective average tax rates for different household...

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The effect of increasing education efficiency on university enrollment: Evidence from administrative data and an unusual schooling reform in Germany

Marcus, Jan; Zambre, Vaishali - 2016

-off between an earlier labor market entry and more years of schooling. …

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Pension incentives and early retirement

Engels, Barbara; Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter - 2016

In this paper we exploit a cohort-specific pension reform to estimate the causal labour market effects of changes in the financial incentives to retire. In particular, we analyze the effects of the introduction of cohort-specific deductions for early retirement on female retirement, employment...

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Paid parental leave and child development: Evidence from the 2007 German parental benefit reform and administrative data

Huebener, Mathias; Kuehnle, Daniel; Spieß, Christa … - 2017

This paper examines the effects of a substantial change in publicly funded paid parental leave in Germany on child development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth....

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Closing routes to retirement: How do people respond?

Geyer, Johannes; Welteke, Clara - 2017

We present quasi-experimental evidence on the employment effects of an unprecedented large increase in the early retirement age (ERA). Raising the ERA has the potential to extend contribution periods and to reduce the number of pension beneficiaries at the same time, if employment exits are...

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Fathers, parental leave and gender norms

Unterhofer, Ulrike; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2017

Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in parental leave schemes. In this paper, we analyze whether...

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Time to care? The effects of retirement on informal care provision

Fischer, Björn; Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2019

This paper analyzes the impact of a reduction in women's labor supply through retirement on their informal care … with previous evidence and underlying behavioral mechanisms. They point to a time-conflict between labor supply and … that aim to increase life-cycle labor supply threaten to reduce informal care provision by women and to aggravate the …

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Long run effects of universal childcare on personality traits

Bach, Maximilian; Koebe, Josefine; Peter, Frauke - 2019

increases extroversion in adolescence, which has been shown to be associated with favorable labor market outcomes. …

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