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Family and labor market choices : requirements to guide effective evidence-based policy

Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michał; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2012

assessment of consequences of family related policies in the area of labor market and fertility. We set these models in the … policy making with the aim to reconcile the objectives of increasing female participation and fertility and reducing poverty … levels among families with children. -- microsimulation ; labor supply ; fertility ; evidence-based policy …

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Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility? : evidence from a structural model

Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009

feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility … fertility of the childless and highly educated women. -- Employment ; fertility ; financial incentives …In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003904913

Making work pay : increasing labour supply of secondary earners in low income families with children

Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michał; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2015

employment incentives for secondary earners. This in turn reduces the potential of in-work support to address the joint …

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Labor supply and child care choices in a rationed child care market

Wrohlich, Katharina (contributor) - 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...

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Parental leave reform and long-run earnings of mothers

Frodermann, Corinna; Wrohlich, Katharina; Zucco, Aline - 2020

or fertility patterns. Descriptive evidence suggests that the stronger involvement of fathers, incentivized by the "daddy …

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Peer effects in parental leave decisions

Welteke, Clara; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2016

This paper analyzes to what extent parental leave decisions of mothers with young children depend on the decisions made by their coworkers. The identification of peer effects, which are defined as indirect effects of the behavior of a social reference group on individual outcomes, bears various...

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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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Economic conditions, parental employment and health of newborns

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Paul, Alexander Gabriel; … - 2018

this we use merged population-wide registers on health and economic and demographic variables, including the national … possible selective fertility based on labor market conditions. We find that downturns are beneficial; for example, a one …

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Financial student aid and enrollment into higher education : new evidence from Germany

Steiner, Viktor (contributor); … - 2008

those reported in previous studies for the United States and other countries. -- Higher education ; financial incentives …

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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...

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