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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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Working time preferences, hours mismatch and well-being of couples: Are there spillovers?

Wunder, Christoph; Heineck, Guido - 2012

We analyze how well-being is related to working time preferences and hours mismatch. Selfreported measures of life satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results indicate that well-being is generally lower among workers with working time mismatch. Particularly...

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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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(Mis-)predicted subjective well-being following life events

Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2015

. This is done after the individuals experience widowhood, marriage, unemployment or disability. We find systematic …

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Women between Part-Time and Full-Time Work: The Influence of Changing Hours of Work on Happiness and Life-Satisfaction

Gash, Vanessa; Mertens, Antje; Gordo, Laura Romeu - 2010

This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as workers freely choose their optimal working hours on the basis of their innate preferences and the hourly wage rate, outcome reflects preference. This paper tests this assumption by...

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Do immigrants suffer more from job loss? Unemployment and subjective well-being in Germany

Leopold, Liliya; Leopold, Thomas; Lechner, Clemens M. - 2016

normative differences between these groups suggest that various factors intensifying the negative impact of unemployment on … unemployment and over several years after job loss. Results showed that immigrants' average declines in subjective well … psychosocial factors render immigrant men most vulnerable to the adverse effects of unemployment. …

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Well-being in Germany: What explains the regional variation?

Vatter, Johannes - 2012

unemployment and income differ in size between regions such that one can assume increasing marginal disutility of unemployment. The …

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