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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
parental labor earnings for up to 14 months after birth of the child - if both father and mother take up the transfer - it … intends to i) smooth or prevent households' earnings decline postpartum, ii) make childbearing attractive for working women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900975
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357858
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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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Mothers' job search after childbirth
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589178
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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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Parasites and raven mothers : a German-Japanese comparison on (lone) motherhood
Klabunde, Anna; Korn, Evelyn - 2010
Having a child out of wedlock used to be associated with shame and scorn. This is mostly not the case anymore in the western world. Therefore, freed from social sanctions, single motherhood has become an additional family-choice alternative for women, along with marriage and childlessness. Yet,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008933296
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Work and well-being of informal caregivers in Europe
Heger, Dörte - 2014
Informal caregivers provide valuable services to elderly persons with long-term care needs, but the consequences of caregiving on caregivers are not yet fully understood. This paper illustrates the interrelation between caregiving and caregivers’ labour force participation, cognitive ability,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417157
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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/10003824845
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In good company : neighborhood quality and female employment
Bechara, Peggy; Eilers, Lea; Paloyo, Alfredo R. - 2015
Using a uniquely assembled panel dataset, we estimate the impact of neighborhood and peer effects on female labor supply. Nonrandom sorting and unobserved heterogeneity at the individual and neighborhood levels make recovering these impact parameters more complicated in the absence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479305
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Schooling and child labor : evidence from Mexico's full-time school program
Kozhaya, Mireille; Martinez Flores, Fernanda - 2020
Child labor is a matter of international concern. This paper examines the effect of a program that extended the length of a school day from four to six or eight hours in Mexico, on school enrollment, time spent on schooling activities, and child labor of children aged 7 to 14. To identify the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012300625