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Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf: wie konsistent sind die Reformen?
Eichhorst, Werner; Thode, Eric - 2009
Erwerbstätigkeit und Familiengründung zu einer echten Entweder-oder-Entscheidung. In Deutschland und vielen anderen OECD-Ländern wurden … Jahre kohärent ausgestaltet waren und die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf verbessert haben. Beim Blick auf Deutschland … dem zum Teil entgegen. Insgesamt befindet sich Deutschland in einer durchaus widersprüchlichen Übergangssituation. …
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Explaining the Growth of Part-Time Employment : Factors of Supply and Demand
Hogerbrugge, Maurice; Euwals, Rob - 2004
Using the Dutch Labour Force Survey 1991-2001, the authors investigate the incidence of part-time employment in the country with the highest part-time employment rate of the OECD countries. Women fulfil most part-time jobs, but nevertheless a considerable fraction of men works part-time as well....
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The Part-Time Wage Penalty : A Career Perspective
Russo, Giovanni; Hassink, Wolter H.J. - 2005
Part-time employment has become an extremely popular work arrangement in the Netherlands because it renders employment compatible with non-work activities. We posit that there may be a downside to part-time employment, which is related to its negative effects on workers? career. This may be the...
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The Determinants of Part-Time Work in EU Countries : Empirical Investigations with Macro-Panel Data
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward, Melanie E. - 2004
This paper aims to identify the contribution of the business cycle and structural factors to the development of part-time employment in the EU-15 countries, through the exploitation of both cross-sectional and time series variations over the past two decades. Key results include that the...
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Recent Developments in Part-Time Work in EU-15 Countries : Trends and Policy
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward, Melanie E. - 2004
A growing part-time employment share has been a main feature of a number of industrialized countries over the past two decades. A considerable variation in the rate of part-time work is evident by gender, age group, industrial sector and occupation. The stylized facts support the view that...
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Job changes and hours changes: Understanding the path of labour supply adjustment
Blundell, Richard W.; Brewer, Mike; Francesconi, Marco - 2007
This paper uses British panel data to investigate single women’s labour supply changes in response to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. These reforms changed individuals' work incentives and we use them to identify changes in labour supply. We find evidence of...
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Women move differently: Job separations and gender
Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2010
Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment...
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Taxing childcare: Effects on family labor supply and children
Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - 2012
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …
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Rubble women: The long-term effects of postwar reconstruction on female labor market outcomes
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Khamis, Melanie; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2011
reconstruction process had mainly fallen on women in postwar Germany. This paper provides causal evidence on long-term legacies of …-level destruction in Germany caused by the Allied Air Forces bombing during WWII with individual survey data from the German Microcensus …
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