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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; Riphahn, Regina T. - 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.

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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - 2009

While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....

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Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017

We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that had paid benefits for up to two years was replaced by an earnings related transfer which paid...

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Job insecurity, employability, and health: An analysis for Germany across generations

Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2014

In this paper, we use 12 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the relationship between job insecurity, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life satisfaction and health. They also, however,...

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Cutting fertility? : the effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply

Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016 - First version: May 2, 2016

The incidence of Cesarean deliveries (CDs) has been on the rise. The procedure's cost and benefits are discussed controversially; in particular, since non-medically indicated cases seem widespread. We study the effect of CDs on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is...

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The impact of health and education on labor force participation in aging societies : projections for the United States and Germany from a dynamic microsimulation

Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Leoni, Thomas; … - 2021

Using a highly stylized dynamic microsimulation model, we project the labor force of the United States up to the year 2060 and contrast these projections with projections for Germany to assess differential effects on outcomes The projections are consistent with the U S Census Bureau’s and...

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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; Riphahn, Regina T. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

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Sick happens : the effect of worker health shocks on coworkers' employment and health behavior

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Wiesinger, Rene - 2024

We analyze how a worker's severe health shock affects the employment and health behavior of their older coworkers. We link comprehensive administrative data on labor market histories and health records from Austria to identify coworker networks and severe health shocks in small firms, which...

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The emotional timeline of unemployment: Anticipation, reaction, and adaption

von Scheve, Christian; Esche, Frederike; Schupp, Jürgen - 2013

Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic … dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted … increasing attention. Although many studies have documented the detrimental effects of unemployment for subjective well …

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