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Parental leave benefits and child penalties

Waights, Sevrin - 2022 - This version: August 2022

I use the universe of tax returns in Germany and a regression kink design to estimate the impact of the benefit amount available to high-earning women after their first childbirth on subsequent within-couple earnings inequality. Lower benefit amounts result in a reduced earnings gap that...

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The effects of family policy on mothers' labor supply : combining evidence from a structural model and a natural experiment

Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014

Parental leave and subsidized child care are prominent examples of family policies supporting the reconciliation of family life and labor market careers for mothers. In this paper, we combine different empirical strategies to evaluate the employment effects of these policies for mothers in...

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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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Short-Run and Long-Term Effects of Childbirth on Mother's employment and working hours across institutional regimes : an empirical analysis based on the European community househol...

Geyer, Johannes (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2007

-run and long-term effects of childbirth on married women's employment and working hours. Estimation results show that these …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003440062

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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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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The effect of maternity leave on women's pay in Germany 1984-1994

Ondrich, Jan I.; Spieß, C. Katharina; Yang, Qing - 2002 - Revised May 2002

In 1986 German federal parental leave and benefit policy was expanded in several ways, extending the potential duration of leave from six to ten months and paying child-rearing benefits to all new mothers regardless of their employment status before childbirth. The potential duration has...

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Paid parental leave and child development : evidence from the 2007 German parental benefit reform and administrative data

Huebener, Mathias; Kuehnle, Daniel; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2017

This paper examines the effects of a substantial change in publicly funded paid parental leave in Germany on child development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth....

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A multilevel analysis of child care and the transition to motherhood in Western Germany

Hank, Karsten; Kreyenfeld, Michaela - 2002

In this paper, we take a multilevel perspective to investigate the role of child care in the transition to motherhood in Germany. We argue that in the European institutional context the availability of public day care and informal child care arrangements should be a central element of the local...

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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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