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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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600805
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600839
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Capabilities and Choices: Do They Make Sen'se for Understanding Objective and Subjective Well-Being? An Empirical Test of Sen's Capability Framework on German and British Panel Dat...
Muffels, Ruud; Headey, Bruce - 2011
In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real freedoms people have or the opportunities available to them....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601027
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622582
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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
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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017401
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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment
Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018699
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600911
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Does Unemployment Hurt Less if There Is More of It Around? A Panel Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland
Oesch, Daniel; Lipps, Oliver - 2011
This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss … if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience …? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may operate through a sociological channel: if many people in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601035
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You Don't Know What You've Got till It's Gone! Unemployment and Intertemporal Changes in Self-Reported Life Satisfaction
Klemm, Marcus - 2011
correlation of unemployment and subjective life satisfaction. It is found that unemployed individuals do not only report … significantly lower concurrent satisfaction, but also recall reduced satisfaction from past unemployment well, and retrospectively … upgrade their past satisfaction scores. Therefore, the short-term negative effects of unemployment on individual life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601063
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286910