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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market
Wrohlich, Katharina - 2006
In this paper, I suggest an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260944
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Children, kitchen, church: does ethnicity matter?
Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labor force participation of females from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264969
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Child Care Costs and Mothers' Labor Supply: An Empirical Analysis for Germany
Wrohlich, Katharina - 2004
labor supply estimation. In contrast to a previous German study, I find significant effects of child care costs on mother …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324201
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Why Are Mothers Working Longer Hours in Austria than in Germany? A Comparative Micro Simulation Analysis
Dearing, Helene; Hofer, Helmut; Lietz, Christine; … - 2007
Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are much higher among Austrian mothers. In order to find out to what extent these differences can be attributed to differences in the tax transfersystem, we perform a comparative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260923
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Short-Run and Long-Term Effects of Childbirth on Mother's employment and working hours across institutional regimes : an empirical analysis based on the European community househol...
Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
-run and long-term effects of childbirth on married women?s employment and working hours. Estimation results show that these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260912
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For Some Mothers More than Others: How Children Matter for Labour Market Outcomes When Both Fertility and Female Employment Are Low
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - 2012
We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children. Among families with at least one child we identify the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012038670
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Financial support for families with children and its trade-off s balancing redistribution and parental work incentives
Myck, Michał; Kurowska, Anna; Kundera, Michał - 2013
Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In the end these trade-offs determine the effectiveness of policy with respect to the material situation of families and employment of their parents. We analyse several kinds of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318441
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The importance of mothers-in-law's employment for their daughter-in-law's labour market outcomes in West Germany: Results and mechanisms
Schmitz, Sophia; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2021
Social norms have been put forward as prominent explanations for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This … decisions, taking into account not only the early socialization of women but also that of their partner. Using large … representative panel data sets from West Germany, results suggest that women with partners who grew up with a working mother are more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501018
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Culture and gender allocation of tasks: Source country characteristics and the division of non-market work among US-immigrants
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Comey, Matthew; … - 2020
-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum's Global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226725
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Fertility as a driver of maternal employment
Schmieder, Julia - 2020
Based on findings from high-income countries, typically economists hypothesize that having more children unambiguously decreases the time mothers spend in the labor mar- ket. Few studies on lower-income countries, in which low household wealth, informal child care, and informal employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012255088