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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...

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The extent of collective bargaining and workplace representation : transitions between states and their determinants ; a comparative analysis of Germany and Great Britain

Addison, John T.; Bryson, Alex; Teixeira, Paulino; … - 2009

Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said … representation in Germany and still less in both countries about firm transitions between these institutions over time. The present … and the erosion of sectoral bargaining in Germany, and identify the respective roles of behavioral and compositional …

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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...

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The economic situation of first- and second-generation immigrants in France, Germany, and the UK

Algan, Yann; Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; … - 2009

also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK …

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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

does not significantly alter the probability of separation. -- Divorce ; labor division ; Germany …

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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 … Germany we calculate first-round effects, which assume no behavioural changes and second-round effects, where we take labour …

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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006

We investigate whether two crucial determinants of economic decision making willingness to take risks and willingness to trust other people are transmitted from parents to children. Our evidence is based on survey questions that ask about these attitudes directly, and are good measures in the...

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The nonlinear link between height and wages : an empirical investigation

Hübler, Olaf (contributor) - 2006

This article investigates the relationship between individual wages and height using the German Socio-Economic Panel where five hypotheses are tested. Some explanations of a positive link exist and empirical studies confirm this hypothesis. In contrast to previous investigations which are only...

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Basic income reform in Germany : better gradualism than cold turkey

Spermann, Alexander (contributor) - 2006

This paper advocates the cautious and constitutional evolution of existing basic income schemes ("unemployment benefit II") and Targeted Negative Income Tax (TNIT = "Einstiegsgeld") into a means-tested combi-wage model for the future long-term unemployed (gradualism strategy). The paper argues...

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Workfare : eine wirksame Alternative zum Kombilohn

Bonin, Holger (contributor); Schneider, Hilmar (contributor) - 2006

In the debate on in-work benefits in Germany it is often overlooked that such subsidies may only be effective if basic …

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