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Lafférs, Lukás; Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2021

new employer after childbirth leads to an increase in re-employment earnings only for mothers at the upper part of the … earnings distribution. For these mothers, initial job search also increases long-term earnings. We provide evidence that … earnings gains are the result of higher geographical mobility and longer commutes to work. Successful mothers are also more …

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Social norms and mothers’ labor market attachment : the medium-run effects of parental benefits

Kluve, Jochen; Schmitz, Sebastian - 2014

Increasing mothers’ labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smoothing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to...

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Household labor supply and Home services in a general-equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents

Bredemeier, Christian (contributor); … - 2009

We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in particular for the increase in married women's labor supply over time. We argue that this increase as well as the relative constancy of other groups' hours are optimal reactions to...

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Wage inequality and wage mobility in Europe

Bachmann, Ronald; Bechara, Peggy; Schaffner, Sandra - 2012

Using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), this paper investigates wage inequality and wage mobility in Europe. Decomposing inequality into within and between group inequality, we analyse to what extent wage inequality and mobility can be explained...

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Occupational mobility in Europe : extent, determinants and consequences

Bachmann, Ronald; Bechara, Peggy; Vonnahme, Christina - 2017

. Occupational mobility is strongly associated with earnings mobility, and occupation movers are more likely than job movers to … experience a downward rather than an upward earnings transition; by contrast, changing occupation voluntarily is more often …

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Immigration and structural change : evidence from post-war Germany

Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2012

Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving...

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International trade and worker turnover : empirical evidence for Germany

Baumgarten, Daniel - 2010

Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper studies how worker turnover is related to establishments‘ international trade involvement. The descriptive analysis shows that trading establishments have lower worker turnover rates than non-traders, suggesting a higher degree...

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Decomposing the ins and outs of cyclical unemployment

Bachmann, Ronald; Sinning, Mathias - 2011

This paper analyzes the contribution of the socioeconomic and demographic composition of the pool of employed and unemployed individuals to the dynamics of the labor market in different phases of the business cycle. Using individual level data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we...

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Task specialization and the native-foreign wage gap : evidence from worker-level data

Storm, Eduard - 2021

Running RIF regressions to decompose wage differences along the distribution, this is the first study documenting that worker-level variation in tasks has played a key role in the widening of the German Native-Foreign Wage Gap. Comparing variation in Individual- vs Occupation-level task measures...

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Labour market participation and atypical employment over the life cycle : a cohort analysis for Germany

Bachmann, Ronald; Felder, Rahel; Tamm, Marcus - 2018

We use data from the adult cohort of the National Education Panel Study to analyse the changes in the employment histories of cohorts born after World War II and the role of atypical employment in this context. Younger cohorts are characterised by acquiring more education, by entering into...

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