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for women, along with marriage and childlessness. Yet, the institutions that influence women’s decisions differ across … countries. We compare the institutional frame, in particular labor-market characteristics and family law, in Germany and Japan …-earner) family system until the second half of the 20th century. Now we can observe that social changes that happened in Germany …
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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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career, especially for women. The recent German Elterngeld reform is one example: By replacing 67 per cent of prepartum … intends to i) smooth or prevent households' earnings decline postpartum, ii) make childbearing attractive for working women …
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Drawing on individual-level mobility data from Germany between 1996 and 2009, this analysis econometrically … mitigated or exacerbated by other socioeconomic attributes of the individual and the household? The results indicate that women … reach mode allocation decisions, and that women, in particular, stand to benefi t from the maintenance of an effi cient and …
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-household decision power expressed by bargaining indicators such as relative income of the spouses. Since women can expect a longer … der Partner über ihre zukünftige Alterssicherung (etwa durch Leistungen der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung) einbezieht …
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We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence against women in Germany in 2020. The analysis draws …Wir untersuchen die Auswirkungen der COVID-19-Pandemie auf die häusliche Gewalt gegen Frauen in Deutschland im Jahr …
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Empirical evidence suggests that parents who have themselves inherited from their own parents are more likely to leave an estate to their children even after controlling for income, wealth and education. This implies an indirect reciprocal behavior between three generations by transmitting the...
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We elicit preferences for retirement timing in a laboratory experiment. Subjects make retirement choices under different payoff schemes that introduce variation in financial incentives. Testing ceteris paribus conditions of the financial incentive alone shows a considerable delay of retirement...
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This paper contributes to the literature on the weakness of modern pay-as-yougo social security systems in financing pensions by taking a business and economic historical perspective on the issue. It focuses on Prussian Knappschaften (plural of Knappschaft), which provided miners with compulsory...
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