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Child benefit reform and labor market participation

Tamm, Marcus - 2009

This paper examines the impact of a change in the German child benefit system in 1996, which led to a large increase in lump sum transfers to families with children. We analyze the impact on the labor force participation of family members. Comparing behavioral changes of adults with children...

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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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Fathers' parental leave-taking, childcare involvement and mothers' labor market participation

Tamm, Marcus - 2018

This study analyzes the effect of fathers' parental leave-taking on the time fathers spend with their children and on mothers' and fathers' labor supply. Fathers' leave-taking is highly selective and the identification of causal effects relies on within-father differences in leave-taking for...

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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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Killing them with kindness : negative distributional externalities of increasing UI benefits

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Vorell, Matthias - 2009

Of the many labour market Hartz IV reforms that have been implemented in Germany since 2005, the role of short-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...

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Job characteristics and labour supply

Kunze, Lars; Suppa, Nicolai - 2013

Arbeitsauslastung auf das individuelle Arbeitsangebot lassen sich dadurch sowohl theoretisch als auch empirisch in einem konsistenten …

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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...

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In good company : neighborhood quality and female employment

Bechara, Peggy; Eilers, Lea; Paloyo, Alfredo R. - 2015

, wird in diesem Papier der Einfluss der Nachbarschaft auf das individuelle Arbeitsangebot von Frauen untersucht. Aufgrund … mit Nachbarschaftsattributen korreliert ist. Während das extensive Arbeitsangebot besonders stark mit der … durchschnittlichen Beschäftigungsquote von Frauen korreliert ist, wird das intensive Arbeitsangebot durch den Anteil der …

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The intra-household division of labor : an empirical analysis of spousal Influences on individual time allocation

Bredtmann, Julia - 2010

Männern und Frauen. Während das Arbeitsangebot von Männern unabhängig von der Zeitallokation der Partnerin ist, passen Frauen … ihr Arbeitsangebot an das ihres Partners an. …

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The intensive and extensive margin of European labour supply

Frings, Hanna; Schaffner, Sandra - 2011

Das Arbeitsangebot wird grundsätzlich durch zwei Faktoren bestimmt: Die Partizipation am Arbeitsmarkt (extensives … Arbeitsangebot) und die Anzahl der gearbeiteten Stunden der Beschäftigten (intensives Arbeitsangebot). Auf Basis der … gesamte Arbeitsangebot ist. Die Ergebnisse deuten auf signifikante Unterschiede im Arbeitsangebot zwischen den Ländern hin …

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