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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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Der Ausbau von Ganztagsschulen genießt derzeit u.a. auf Grund des schlechten Abschneidens deutscher Schüler bei der PISA-Studie hohe Priorität in der politischen Agenda. In diesem Beitrag soll untersucht werden, wie sich der Ausbau von Ganztagsschulen auf die Erwerbsbeteiligung von Müttern...
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We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has fallen since 1981. Previous research has found divergent results across techniques, identification strategies, data sets, and time periods. Using Michigan Panel Study of Income...
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, informal child care, and informal employment opportunities prevail, find mixed results. Using Mexican census data, I find a … positive effect of an instrument-induced increase in fertility on maternal employment driven by an increase in informal work … this complier-specific effect indicate that the response in informal employment is non-negative for the entire sample. …
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low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children …. Among families with at least one child we identify the average causal effect of an additional child on mother's employment … to be -7.1 percentage points. However, we find no effect of additional children on female employment among families with …
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(1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection … into fulltime employment. However, we show that selection-corrected wages of male and female workers at the lower half of … of the male full-time employment force over time, which in spite of the rather constant male full-time employment rate …
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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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, focusing on the type of family model where children grow up, defined on the basis of parental employment status and relative …
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