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Female Labor Supply and Parental Leave Benefits: The Causal Effect of Paying Higher Transfers for a Shorter Period of Time

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009

We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects.

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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - 2009

While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....

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Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017

We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that had paid benefits for up to two years was replaced by an earnings related transfer which paid...

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Macroeconomic conditions and health in Britain: Aggregation, dynamics and local area heterogeneity

Janke, Katharina; Lee, Kevin; Propper, Carol; Shields, … - 2020

We estimate a model that allows for dynamic and interdependent responses of morbidity in different local areas to economic conditions at the local and national level, with statistical selection of optimal local area. We apply this approach to quarterly British data on chronic health conditions...

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Job insecurity, employability, and health: An analysis for Germany across generations

Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2014

In this paper, we use 12 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the relationship between job insecurity, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life satisfaction and health. They also, however,...

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Female Labor Supply and Parental Leave Benefits: The Causal Effect of Paying Higher Transfers for a Shorter Period of Time

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

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The impact of health on labour supply near retirement

Blundell, Richard W.; Britton, Jack; Costa Dias, Monica; … - 2017

Estimates of the effect of health on employment differ significantly from study to study due to differences in method, data, institutional background and health measure. We assess the importance of these differences using a unified framework to interpret and contrast estimates of the impact of...

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Active labour market policy effects for women in Europe: A survey

Bergemann, Annette; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2006

We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skilltraining programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance, and...

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The emotional timeline of unemployment: Anticipation, reaction, and adaption

von Scheve, Christian; Esche, Frederike; Schupp, Jürgen - 2013

Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic … dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted … increasing attention. Although many studies have documented the detrimental effects of unemployment for subjective well …

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