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Early Child Care and Labor Supply of Lower-Ses Mothers : A Randomized Controlled Trial

Hermes, Henning; Krauß, Marina; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2022

-time employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers' earnings by 22%. The effect on full … substantially improves intra-household gender equality in terms of child care duties and earnings …

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Parents Transmit Happiness Along with Associated Values and Behaviors to Their Children : A Lifelong Happiness Dividend?

Headey, Bruce - 2012

There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for 'children' who have grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un)happiness from parents to children is partly due to transmission of...

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Works Councils and Organizational Gender Policies in Germany

Jirjahn, Uwe - 2019

While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in labor market opportunities. This gives rise to the question of what factors lead employers to promote work-family balance and gender equality. We address this question by...

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Employment Adjustments Around Childbirth

Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara - 2016

Using rich longitudinal register data from Denmark, we show that the allocation of mothers between the competitive private sector and the family-friendly public sector significantly changes around the birth of their first child. Specifically, mothers – post first childbirth – are...

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Minimum Wages and Female Labor Supply in Germany

Bredemeier, Christian - 2012

In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study the effects of minimum wages on labor supply using a structural household model where we distinguish between married and single households. In the model, labor supply of married...

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The Gender Gap in Earnings Losses after Job Displacement

Illing, Hannah; Schmieder, Johannes F.; Trenkle, Simon - 2021

Existing research has shown that job displacement leads to large and persistent earnings losses for men, but evidence …. Our results show that after a mass layoff, women's earnings losses are about 35% higher than men's, with the gap … children have smaller earnings losses than men in general, mothers of young children have much larger earnings losses than …

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Sharing the Caring? The Gender Division of Care Work During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Germany

Jessen, Jonas; Spiess, C. Katharina; Waights, Sevrin; … - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic and related closures of daycare centers and schools significantly increased the amount of care work done by parents. There is much speculation over whether the pandemic increased or decreased gender equality in parental care work. Based on representative data for Germany we...

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Successful Apprenticeship-to-Work Transitions : On the Long-Term Change in Significance of the German School-Leaving Certificate

Büchel, Felix - 2021

The quality of labor-market entry achieved by newly qualified apprentices in West Germany is analyzed from 1948 to 1992. A bivariate probit model, using data from the BIBB/IAB employment survey, is applied to estimate simultaneously the quality of the school-to-apprenticeship transition and that...

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The Role of Childhood Health for the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital : Evidence from Administrative Data

Salm, Martin; Schunk, Daniel - 2021

We use unique administrative German data to examine the role of childhood health for the intergenerational transmission of human capital. Specifically, we examine the extent to which a comprehensive list of health conditions - diagnosed by government physicians - can account for developmental...

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Overtime Work and Overtime Compensation in Germany

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2021

Sharing the available stock of work more fairly is a popular concern in the public policy debate. One proposal is to reduce overtime work in order to allow the employment of more people. This paper suggests that such a concept faces major problems. Using Germany as a case study, it is shown that...

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