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Cohort size effects on wages, working status, and work time
Okoampah, Sarah - 2016
time is considered rather than contractual work time. It is argued that the restrictive labor market institutions in place …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520610
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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 employment decisions, we analyse their transitions to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901024
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The intensive and extensive margin of European labour supply
Frings, Hanna; Schaffner, Sandra - 2011
Labour supply is determined by two factors: the participation of workers in the labour market (extensive margin), and the number of hours supplied by those working (intensive margin). Based on the European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS), we analyse which margin is more decisive in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581047
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357832
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Killing them with kindness : negative distributional externalities of increasing UI benefits
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Vorell, Matthias - 2009
-term unemployment insurance has not received much attention. In this paper we examine distributional effects of labour earnings and … unemployment benefits using simulated increases in unemployment insurance replacement rates or equivalently, increases in the net … negative labour supply effects, drawing those employed into unemployment shifting the mass of the earnings distribution to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861427
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Bridge unemployment in Germany : response in labour supply to an increased early retirement age
Giesecke, Matthias; Kind, Michael - 2013
risk of leaving the state unemployment into employment or into early retirement due to exceptional rules. We find a … early due to exceptional rules is not affected. -- Labour supply ; retirement behaviour ; old age unemployment ; duration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722390
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Discrete heterogeneity in the impact of health shocks on labour market outcomes
Schurer, Stefanie (contributor) - 2008
Empirical evidence from the psychology literature suggests that reactions towards health shocks depend strongly on the personality trait of locus of control, which is usually unobservable to the analyst. In this paper, the role of this discrete heterogeneity in shaping the effects of health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003761828