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Living Conditions of Children and Parental Well-Being : Evidence from German Data on Life Satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes - 2004
The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach will be introduced, where the life satisfaction data of parents will be regressed onto the living conditions of their children who now live independently. After controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261955
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On th Identification of Relative Wage Rigidity Dynamics.
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2000
We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262433
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The Distribution of Wages in Poland, 1992-2002
Newell, Andrew; Socha, Mieczysław W. - 2005
This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271758
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Labour turnover and the spatial distribution of unemployment: A panel data analysis using employment registry data
Pastore, Francesco; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2012
from the employment registry of a transition economy (Poland), encompassing nine years of monthly data (from 2000 to 2008 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291304
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Intergenerational Long Term Effects of Preschool: Structural Estimates from a Discrete Dynamic Programming Model
Heckman, James J.; Raut, Lakshmi Kanta - 2013
This paper formulates a structural dynamic programming model of preschool investment choices of altruistic parents and then empirically estimates the structural parameters of the model using the NLSY79 data. The paper finds that preschool investment significantly boosts cognitive and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319531
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Intergenerational analysis of social interaction
Brown, Sarah; McHardy, Jolian; Taylor, Karl - 2011
We explore the relationship between the social interaction of parents and their offspring from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Our theoretical framework establishes possible explanations for the intergenerational transfer of social interaction whereby the social interaction of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278387
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Retirement, Intergenerational Time Transfers, and Fertility
Eibich, Peter; Siedler, Thomas - 2020
transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on adult …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180186
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Intergenerational Analysis of Social Interaction
Brown, Sarah; McHardy, Jolian; Taylor, Karl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We explore the relationship between the social interaction of parents and their offspring from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Our theoretical framework establishes possible explanations for the intergenerational transfer of social interaction whereby the social interaction of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008924595
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Welfare Rules, Incentives, and Family Structure
Moffitt, Robert A.; Phelan, Brian J.; Winkler, Anne E. - 2015
In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on … family is treated. In an empirical analysis conducted over the period 1996 to 2004 that correctly matches family structure … outcomes to welfare rules, we find significant effects of several welfare policies on family structure, both work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307340
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Undoing Gender with Institutions: Lessons from the German Division and Reunification
Lippmann, Quentin; Georgieff, Alexandre; Senik, Claudia - 2019
Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created a culture that has undone the male breadwinner norm and its consequences. Since reunification, East Germany still differs from West Germany not only by a higher female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005913