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Marital sorting, inequality and the role of female labor supply : evidence from East and West Germany
Pestel, Nico - 2015
This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past three decades, while explicitly taking into account labor supply choices. Using rich micro data, the observed distribution of couples' earnings is compared to a counterfactual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300737
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Marital sorting, inequality and the role of female labor supply : evidence from east and west Germany
Pestel, Nico - 2015
This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past three decades, while explicitly taking into account labor supply choices. Using rich micro data, the observed distribution of couples' earnings is compared to a counterfactual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317821
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Wo(men) at work? : the impact of cohabiting and married partners' earning on women's work hours
Triebe, Doreen - 2013
This study investigates the determinants of women's labor supply in the household context. The main focus is on the effect of a change in male partner's wages on women's work hours. This is linked to the broader question of whether married and cohabiting women make different economic decisions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231584
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Beyond inequality accounting : marital sorting and couple labor supply
Pestel, Nico - 2014
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421537
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The added worker effect differentiated by gender and partnership status : evidence from involuntary job loss
Triebe, Doreen - 2015
This paper examines the added worker effect (AWE), which refers to the increase of labor supply of individuals in response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies focus on married women's response to those shocks, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010493166
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Do you really want to share everything? : the wellbeing of work-linked couples
Hennecke, Juliane; Hetschko, Clemens - 2021
Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially so if partners work in the same occupation or industry. At the same time, being work-linked may benefit their career success. Still, surprisingly little is known about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012511425
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Effects of early childhood intervention on fertility and maternal employment : evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Sandner, Malte - 2015
effects of the intervention on maternal employment, welfare benefits, and household composition. The study reveals that the … intervention unintentionally decreased maternal employment and increased subsequent births. These results contradict those of … previous studies from the United States, where home visiting programs successfully increased employment and decreased fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391650
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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? : A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature
Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - 2013
markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Pro-grammes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta … combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784011
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Immigration and heterogeneous labor in Western Germany : a labor market classification based on nonparametric estimation
Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002
markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration … recommended for immigration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447106
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EU enlargement and immigration
Kraus, Margit; Schwager, Robert - 2000
accession affects income gaps. Moreover, if EU membership is refused, fear of future restrictions on immigration will lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443914