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Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wooden, Mark - 2015

We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how demographic events affect perceived time and financial stress. Consistent with the view of measures of stress as proxies for the Lagrangean multipliers in models of household production,...

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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 … fertility of the childless and highly educated women. -- Employment ; fertility ; financial incentives …

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Reconciling estimates of the long-term earnings effect of fertility

Bensnes, Simon; Huitfeldt, Ingrid; Leuven, Edwin - 2023

fertility as their earnings profile flattens. The implication of this is that the event-study overestimates women's earnings … selection into fertility show that common intuitions regarding parallel trend assumptions may be misleading, and that pre …

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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives

Brown, Alessio J. G. (contributor); … - 2006

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...

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Changing fertility and heterogeneous motherhood effects : revisiting the effects of a parental benefits reform

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - 2024

while accounting for fertility effects. A large novel data set linking data from two administrative sources provides … positive medium-run effects employment outcomes. It changes the selection into fertility and shows heterogeneous effects …

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Cross-national differences in wealth portfolios at the intensive margin : is there a role for policy?

Doorley, Karina; Sierminska, Eva - 2014

in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that …

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Old‐age employment and hours of work trends : empirical analysis for four European countries

Aliaj, Arjeta; Flawinne, Xavier; Jousten, Alain; … - 2016

For the last two decades, the increase of employment among cohorts of individuals aged 50+ has been a policy objective on the European employment agenda. The present paper takes stock of the situation as observed in Belgium over the time period 1997-2011. First, we provide analysis on the...

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Universal childcare for the youngest and the maternal labour supply

Kunze, Astrid; Liu, Xingfei - 2019

In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We measure female labour supply at both the extensive and intensive margin. For identification, we exploit a nationwide reform that expanded childcare for 1-2- year-olds in Norway....

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Why work more? : the impact of taxes, and culture of leisure on labor supply in Europe

Mocan, Naci; Pogorelova, Luiza - 2015

We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor force participation and hours worked of second-generation immigrants who reside in 26 European countries. These individuals are born in Europe, and they have been exposed to...

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Fly me to the moon : the determinants of secondary jobholding in Germany and the UK

Heineck, Guido (contributor); Schwarze, Johannes (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper analyzes the determinants of secondary jobholding in Germany and the UK. Although differing in labor market regulations, moonlighting is a persistent phenomenon in both countries. Using panel data from the BHPS and the SOEP, reduced form participation equations are estimated for male...

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