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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...
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Taxing childcare: Effects on family labor supply and children
Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - 2012
older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members. …
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Culture, policies and labor market outcomes
Giavazzi, Francesco; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Serafinelli, … - 2009
We study whether cultural attitudes towards gender, the young, and leisure are significant determinants of the evolution over time of the employment rates of women and of the young, and of hours worked in OECD countries. Beyond controlling for a larger menu of policies, institutions and...
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Minimum wages, labor market institutions, and female employment and unemployment: A cross-country analysis
Addison, John T.; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2010
This paper estimates the effect of minimum wage regulation in 16 OECD countries, 1970-2008. Our treatment is motivated by Neumark and Wascher's (2004) seminal cross-country study using panel methods to estimate minimum wage effects among teenagers and young adults. Apart from the longer time...
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A general model of technical change with an application to the OECD countries
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - 2011
In the neoclassical production functions model technical change (TC) is assumed to be exogenous and it is specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect the rate of TC. In this paper we model TC via a combination of time trend (purely...
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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 …
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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...
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Parents and Children Talk : The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2004
incorporating dynamics among family members – mother, father and children. Single equation, bivariate, and four-state (multivariate …
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Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses? : The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2004
Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family "was not strong … examining whether racial differences in family business backgrounds can explain why black-owned businesses lag substantially … that black business owners have a relatively disadvantaged family business background compared with white business owners …
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Families, Human Capital, and Small Business : Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2004
causes of intergenerational links in business ownership and the related issue of how having a family business background …-employed family member prior to starting their business. Conditional on having a self-employed family member, less than 50 percent of … small business owners worked in that family member's business suggesting that it is unlikely that intergenerational links in …
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