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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 - 2009
birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects …
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The Employment of Mothers : Recent Developments and Their Determinants in East and West Germany
Broadway, Barbara - 2011
We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers … substantial differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives … particularly for low income mothers not to return to the labor market after birth. East German mothers' employment outcomes matches …
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Paid Parental Leave and Families' Living Arrangements
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2018
We examine how a paid parental leave reform causally affected families' living arrangements. The German reform we examine replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Combining a regression discontinuity with a difference-in-differences design, we find...
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