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Family and Labor Market Choices : Requirements to Guide Effective Evidence-Based Policy

Kurowska, Anna - 2012

Microsimulation methods and models of labor market decisions have attracted a lot of attention as an approach to the assessment of consequences of family related policies in the area of labor market and fertility. We set these models in the context of relevant demographic theories and present...

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Parental Leave Reform and Long-Run Earnings of Mothers

Frodermann, Corinna - 2020

leave policies. We analyze the impact of a major parental leave reform on mothers' long-term earnings. The 2007 German … parental leave reform replaced a means-tested benefit with a more generous earnings-related benefit that is granted for a … policy on long-run earnings of mothers, we use a difference-in-difference approach that compares labor market outcomes of …

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Making Work Pay : Increasing Labour Supply of Secondary Earners in Low Income Families with Children

Kurowska, Anna - 2015

In-work support through the tax-benefit system has proved to be an effective way of increasing labour supply of lone mothers and first earners in couples in a number of OECD countries. At the same time these instruments usually create negative employment incentives for secondary earners. This in...

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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market

Wrohlich, Katharina - 2021

In this paper, I suggest 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...

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Fathers, Parental Leave and Gender Norms

Unterhofer, Ulrike - 2017

Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in parental leave schemes. In this paper, we analyze whether...

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Labor Supply Under Participation and Hours Constraints : An Extended Structural Model for Policy Evaluations

Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2018

The paper extends a static discrete-choice labor supply model by adding participation and hours constraints. We identify restrictions by survey information on the eligibility and search activities of individuals as well as actual and desired hours. This provides for a more robust identification...

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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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Selection into Employment and the Gender Wage Gap across the Distribution and over Time

Gallego-Granados, Patricia - 2020

Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one...

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Preferences for Childcare Policies : Theory and Evidence

Borck, Rainald; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2021

We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...

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Can Child Care Policy Encourage Employment and Fertility? Evidence from a Structural Model

Haan, Peter - 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 decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer...

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