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Fertility as a driver of maternal employment

Schmieder, Julia - 2020

positive effect of an instrument-induced increase in fertility on maternal employment driven by an increase in informal work …

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A lost generation? : Long term socioeconomic outcomes in orphans

Bozzoli, Carlos - 2010

main outcomes of young adults, namely labor market attachment and fertility, and its relation to orphanhood status. The … key outcomes (e.g. schooling, work, fertility outcomes). It also provides information on so-called "parental investments … educational achievements, but that it may also leave a long-lasting "imprint" in terms of employment and fertility patterns …

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For some mothers more than others : how children matter for labour market outcomes when both fertility and female employment are low

Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michał - 2012 - Corrected version, November 2012

We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and … two or more kids. Heterogeneity analysis suggests no causal effects of fertility on female employment among mothers with …

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The importance of mothers-in-law's employment for their daughter-in-law's labour market outcomes in West Germany : results and mechanisms

Schmitz, Sophia; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2021

Social norms have been put forward as prominent explanations for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This paper studies the intergenerational formation of these norms, examining how they affect subsequent female labour supply decisions, taking into account not only the early...

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Cracking under pressure? : gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in times of a pandemic

Danzer, Natalia; Huebener, Mathias; Pape, Astrid; … - 2021

This paper studies the effects of Covid-19 related daycare and school closures on gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in Germany. We compare women and men with dependent children to those without children one year after the outbreak of the pandemic. Using data on gender role...

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Gender identity and wives' labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016

Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019

We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family...

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Gender identity and womens' supply of labor and non-market work : panel data evidence for Germany

Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2015

This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data...

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Do ethnic minorities “stretch” their time? : evidence from the UK time use survey

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

This paper investigates the effect of ethnicity on time spent on overlapped household production, work and leisure activities employing the 2000-2001 UK Time Use Survey. We find that, unconditionally, white females manage to "stretch" their time the most by an additional 233 minutes per day and...

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Household survey data for research on well-being and behavior in Central Asia

Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir; Kröger, Antje; … - 2012

This paper summarizes the micro-level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household-level surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan - and...

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What makes an employer?

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2019

As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to better understand which variables influence the first hiring decision and which ones influence the subsequent survival as an employer. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel...

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