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Does height affect labor supply? Implications of product variety and caloric needs

Micheli, Martin - 2015

The positive correlation between hourly wages and height, which results in higher labor supply of tall individuals, is well-documented in the literature. Accepting the utilitarian perspective and assuming that height does not affect utility implies that linking income taxes to height is welfare...

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Long-term care reform and the labor supply of household members: Evidence from a quasi-experiment

Geyer, Johannes; Korfhage, Thorben - 2015

Germany introduced a new mandatory insurance for long-term care in 1995 as part of its social security system. It replaced a system based on means tested social welfare. Benefits from the long-term care insurance are not means tested and depend on the required level of care. The insurance...

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Indirect fiscal effects of long-term care insurance

Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Korfhage, Thorben - 2015

Informal care by close family members is the main pillar of most long-term care systems. However, due to demographic ageing the need for long-term care is expected to increase while the informal care potential is expected to decline. From a budgetary perspective, informal care is often viewed as...

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Making Dough or Baking Dough? Spousal Housework Responsibilities in Germany, 1992-2011

Procher, Vivien; Ritter, Nolan; Vance, Colin - 2014

Drawing on German household data from 1992 to 2011, this paper analyzes how couples allocate housework against the backdrop of three questions: (1) Does an individual's contribution to household income - both in absolute and relative terms - influence his or her contribution to housework? (2) If...

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Social Norms and Mothers' Labor Market Attachment – The Medium-run Effects of Parental Benefits

Kluve, Jochen; Schmitz, Sebastian - 2014

increases in working hours. Second, the probability of job continuity rises significantly, i.e. mothers return to their pre …

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Husband's Unemployment and Wife's Labor Supply – The Added Worker Effect across Europe

Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian; Rulff, Christian - 2014

This paper investigates the responsiveness of women's labor supply to their husband's loss of employment - the so-called added worker effect. While previous empirical literature on this topic mainly concentrates on a single country, we take an explicit internationally comparative perspective and...

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Informal care and long-term labor market outcomes

Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2016

In this paper we estimate the long-run effects of informal care provision on female caregivers' labor market outcomes up to eight years after care provision. We compare a static version, where the average effects of care provision in a certain year on later labor market outcomes are estimated,...

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The effects of after-school programs on maternal employment

Dehos, Fabian; Paul, Marie - 2017

grants by a nationwide investment program. Results suggest that additional ASP places had no effect on working hours or the …

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Long-run consequences of informal elderly care and implications of public long-term care insurance

Korfhage, Thorben - 2019

In this paper, I estimate a dynamic structural model of labor supply, retirement, and informal care supply, incorporating labor market frictions and the German tax and benefit system. I find that informal elderly care has adverse and persistent effects on labor market outcomes and therefore...

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Hours risk, wage risk, and life-cycle labor supply

Jessen, Robin; König, Johannes - 2018

We decompose permanent earnings risk into contributions from hours and wage shocks. In order to distinguish between … hours shocks and labor supply reactions to wage shocks we use a life-cycle model of consumption and labor supply. Estimating … our model with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) shows that both permanent wage and hours shocks play an important …

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