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Women's Fertility and Employment Decisions under Two Political Systems - Comparing East and West Germany before Reunification
Bredtmann, Julia; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra - 2009
Over the last decades fertility rates have decreased in most developed countries, while female labour force … participation has increased strongly over the same time period. To shed light on the relationship between women's fertility and … drawing conclusions about the relevance of institutional factors for fertility and employment decisions. Our results suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265813
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Parasites and Raven Mothers: A German-Japanese Comparison on (Lone) Motherhood
Klabunde, Anna; Korn, Evelyn - 2010
fertility rates that resulted in Germany can be transfered to Japan. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273562
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Women's Fertility and Employment Decisions under Two Political Systems - Comparing East and West Germany before Reunification
Bredtmann, Julia; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
Over the last decades fertility rates have decreased in most developed countries, while female labour force … participation has increased strongly over the same time period. To shed light on the relationship between women's fertility and … drawing conclusions about the relevance of institutional factors for fertility and employment decisions. Our results suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509376
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Parasites and Raven Mothers: A German-Japanese Comparison on (Lone) Motherhood
Klabunde, Anna; Korn, Evelyn - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010
fertility rates that resulted in Germany can be transfered to Japan. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008641788
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Now Daddy's Changing Diapers and Mommy's Making Her Career - Evaluating a Generous Parental Leave Regulation Using a Natural Experiment
Kluve, Jochen; Tamm, Marcus - 2009
Over the last decades many OECD countries introduced parental leave regulations in order to counteract low and decreasing birth rates. In general, these regulations aim at making parenthood more attractive and more compatible with a working career, especially for women. The recent German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265800
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Now Daddy's Changing Diapers and Mommy's Making Her Career - Evaluating a Generous Parental Leave Regulation Using a Natural Experiment
Kluve, Jochen; Tamm, Markus - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
Over the last decades many OECD countries introduced parental leave regulations in order to counteract low and decreasing birth rates. In general, these regulations aim at making parenthood more attractive and more compatible with a working career, especially for women. The recent German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509369
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Bismarck in the bedroom? Pension reform and fertility: Evidence 1870-2010
Jäger, Philipp - 2017
Rising public pension generosity has frequently been cited as one reason for the (persistently) declining fertility … rates in many advanced economies. Despite the theoretical appeal, empirical evidence on the pension-fertility nexus is … limited. To fill this gap, I study country-level fertility trends before and after 23 pension reforms using a long-run panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610003
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The Impact of a Large Parental Leave Benefit Reform on the Timing of Birth around the Day of Implementation
Tamm, Marcus - 2009
The introduction of the German parental leave benefit (Elterngeld) applied to all children born on January 1st, 2007 or later. The new Elterngeld considerably changed the amount of transfers to families during the first two years postpartum. We show that the incentives created by using a cut-off...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265817
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Clash of Career and Family - Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement
Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea Maria; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008
In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are … reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277081
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Does Timing of Health and Family Planning Services Matter? Age at First Birth and Educational Attainment in Indonesia
Strupat, Christoph - 2014
This paper examines empirically whether midwifes, as an integral part of the health and family planning programs in Indonesia, are effective in advising young women to delay their first birth and also influence the decision on post-primary school attendance. Using the Indonesian Family Life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420987