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Gender, time use and public policy over the life cycle
Apps, Patricia (contributor); Rees, Ray (contributor) - 2005
In this paper we compare gender differences in the allocation of time to market work, domestic work, child care, and leisure over the life cycle. Time use profiles for these activity categories are constructed on survey data for three countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003287687
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Female labor market transitions in Europe
Kaiser, Lutz C. (contributor) - 2006
Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003316483
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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
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Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf : wie konsistent sind die Reformen?
Eichhorst, Werner; Thode, Eric - 2009
Erwerbstätigkeit und Familiengründung zu einer echten Entweder-oder-Entscheidung. In Deutschland und vielen anderen OECD-Ländern wurden … Jahre kohärent ausgestaltet waren und die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf verbessert haben. Beim Blick auf Deutschland … dem zum Teil entgegen. Insgesamt befindet sich Deutschland in einer durchaus widersprüchlichen Übergangssituation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879329
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Now daddy's changing diapers and mommy's making her career : evaluating a generous parental leave regulation using a natural experiment
Kluve, Jochen; Tamm, Marcus - 2009
Over the last decades many OECD countries introduced parental leave regulations in order to counteract low and decreasing birth rates. In general, these regulations aim at making parenthood more attractive and more compatible with a working career, especially for women. The recent German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003904910
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Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility? : evidence from a structural model
Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009
In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003904913
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Effect of labor division between wife and husband on the risk of divorce : evidence from German data
Kraft, Kornelius; Neimann, Stefanie - 2009
Using German panel data from 1984 to 2007, we analyze the impact of labor division between husband and wife on the risk of divorce. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that specialization in domestic and market work, respectively, reduces the risk of separation. Traditionally, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003905704
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The parental leave benefit reform in Germany : costs and labour market outcomes of moving towards the Scandinavian model
Spieß, C. Katharina (contributor);  … - 2006 - [Rev]
Germany is known to have one of the lowest fertility rates among Western European countries and also relatively low employment rates of mothers with young children. Although these trends have been observed during the last decades, the German public has only recently begun discussing these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003479933
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Effekte der Kindererziehung auf Erwerbsprofile und Alterseinkommen von Frauen in West- und Ostdeutschland
Stegmann, Michael - In: WSI-Mitteilungen : Zeitschrift des Wirtschafts- und … 60 (2007) 2, pp. 86-93
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The effects of marriage on couples' allocation of time between market and non-market hours
El Lahga, AbdelRahmen (contributor);  … - 2007
"We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours using a sample of working couples. For this purpose we use the 21 first waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSEOP). We adapt to system GMM estimation the estimator presented...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003451836