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The child penalty: implications of parenthood on labour market outcomes for men and women in Germany

Feldhoff, Charlotte H. - 2021

. The main contribution of this paper is the analysis of the effect of parenthood on women's and men's earnings using … the ﬁrst child to be -10500€ for women and +6800€ for men. When comparing the percentage loss of potential earnings, I ﬁnd …

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Change in the gender division of domestic work after mummy or daddy took leave : an examination of alternative explanations

Schober, Pia S.; Zoch, Gundula - 2015

This study investigates how the duration of child care leave taken by mothers and fathers relates to changes in couples’ division of housework and child care after postnatal labour market return in Germany. It explores whether take-up of child care related leave may impact the gender division...

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Refugees' and irregular migrants' self-selection into Europe : who migrates where?

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2020

We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and...

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Distributional and behavioral effects of the gender wage gap

Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2015

The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically lower than male wages, what are the distributional...

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The feminization of occupations and change in wages : a panel analysis of Britain, Germany and Switzerland

Murphy, Emily; Oesch, Daniel - 2015

an entirely female occupation entails a loss in individual earnings of twelve percent in Britain, six percent in …

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Parenthood and risk preferences

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2015

This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...

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Maternity leave and its consequences for subsequent careers in Germany

Franz, Nele Elisa - 2014

This paper analyzes the wage development of mothers interrupting their careers, in comparison to the wages of men who do not face a parental interruption. We estimate OLS regression models for different subcategories defined by age and point in time. We use data from the German Socioeconomic...

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Beyond inequality accounting : marital sorting and couple labor supply

Pestel, Nico - 2014

This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly …. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of observed and randomly matched couples are compared to each other …. Earnings of hypothetical couples are adjusted for changes in hours worked given the differences in the household context using …

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Marital sorting, inequality and the role of female labor supply : evidence from east and west Germany

Pestel, Nico - 2015

This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past … of couples' earnings is compared to a counterfactual of randomly matched spouses. Hypothetical earnings are predicted … is found after adjusting for labor supply behavior, while the effect is limited when earnings are taken as given. This …

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Individual and workplace-specific determinants of paid and unpaid overtime work in Germany

Zapf, Ines - 2015

In Germany, overtime work is a well-established instrument for varying working hours of employees and is of great importance for establishments as a measure of internal flexibility. However, not all employees are affected to the same degree by a variation of the work effort through overtime...

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