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Labor supply and child care choices in a rationed child care market
Wrohlich, Katharina - 2011
This paper presents an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579620
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579395
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009268978
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012250660
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039446
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Does religion influence the labour supply of married women in Germany?
Heineck, Guido - 2002
On behavioural theory basis, this article analyses whether religion influences married women in Germany in their decision to supply labour. Gender roles and accompanying attitudes toward the appropriate division of labour among spouses might differ across religious groups depending on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435981
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Alternative measures of the explanatory power of multivariate probit models with continuous or ordinal responses
Spieß, Martin; Tutz, Gerhard - 2002
In this paper R2-type measures of the explanatory power of multivariate linear and categorical probit models proposed in the literature are reviewed and their deficiencies are discussed. It is argued that a measure of the explanatory power should take into account the components which are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436274
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A switch from joint to individual taxation is welfare improving
Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - 2011
In this paper we empirically derive the welfare effects of a shift from joint taxation with full income splitting to a revenue neutral system of individual taxation in Germany. For the empirical welfare evaluation we estimate the preference heterogeneity in the population and use normative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579606
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Empirical welfare analysis in random utility models of labour supply
Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - 2010
The aim of this paper is to apply recently proposed individual welfare measures in the context of random utility models of labour supply. Contrary to the standard practice of using reference preferences and wages, these measures preserve preference heterogeneity in the normative step of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269007
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The impact of the length of schooling on the timing of family formation
Koebe, Josefine; Marcus, Jan - 2020
Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyse whether changing the duration of one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit the introduction of short school years in Germany in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270851