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Dimensions of Quality of Life in Germany : Measured by Plain Text Responses in a Representative Survey (SOEP)
Wagner, Gert G. - 2017
Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Furthermore, the paper shows that problems that are difficult to monitor, especially problems like …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963850
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The KfW/Zew Start-Up Panel : Design and Research Potential
Fryges, Helmut - 2009
Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the …So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using … yearly panel waves computer-aided telephone interviews (CATI) are conducted with about 6,000 start-up firms from almost all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155553
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Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting
Askitas, Nikos - 2012
The current economic crisis requires fast information to predict economic behavior early, which is difficult at times of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data on internet activity for that purpose. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117001
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Efficient Intra-Household Allocation of Parental Leave
Parys, Juliane - 2010
We propose a model of how parents resolve conflicts about sharing the negative short and long-term consequences from parenthood-related career interruptions on earnings. We introduce childcare sharing in a collective model of household behavior with public consumption as in Blundell, Chiappori,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139064
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The Employment of Mothers : Recent Developments and Their Determinants in East and West Germany
Broadway, Barbara - 2011
. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123915
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000059
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Now Daddy's Changing Diapers and Mommy's Making Her Career : Evaluating a Generous Parental Leave Regulation Using a Natural Experiment
Kluve, Jochen - 2009
Over the last decades many OECD countries introduced parental leave regulations in order to counteract low and decreasing birth rates. In general, these regulations aim at making parenthood more attractive and more compatible with a working career, especially for women. The recent German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155161
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The Parental Leave Benefit Reform in Germany : Costs and Labour Market Outcomes of Moving Towards the Scandinavian Model
Spiess, C. Katharina - 2006
Germany is known to have one of the lowest fertility rates among Western European countries and also relatively low … Germany we calculate first-round effects, which assume no behavioural changes and second-round effects, where we take labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779181
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Fathers' Parental Leave-Taking, Childcare Involvement and Mothers' Labor Market Participation
Tamm, Marcus - 2018
This study analyzes the effect of fathers' parental leave-taking on the time fathers spend with their children and on mothers' and fathers' labor supply. Fathers' leave-taking is highly selective and the identification of causal effects relies on within-father differences in leave-taking for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908902
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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
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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764696