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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. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 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.

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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....

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Does Unemployment Hurt Less if There Is More of It Around?: A Panel Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland

Oesch, Daniel; Lipps, Oliver - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss … if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience …? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may operate through a sociological channel: if many people in the …

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Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment

Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...

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Women between Part-Time and Full-Time Work: The Influence of Changing Hours of Work on Happiness and Life-Satisfaction

Gash, Vanessa; Mertens, Antje; Gordo, Laura Romeu - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as workers freely choose their optimal working hours on the basis of their innate preferences and the hourly wage rate, outcome reflects preference. This paper tests this assumption by...

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