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Wo(men) at work? : the impact of cohabiting and married partners' earning on women's work hours

Triebe, Doreen - 2013

This study investigates the determinants of women's labor supply in the household context. The main focus is on the effect of a change in male partner's wages on women's work hours. This is linked to the broader question of whether married and cohabiting women make different economic decisions...

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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 disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...

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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 three decades, while explicitly taking into account labor supply choices. Using rich micro data, the observed distribution of couples' earnings is compared to a counterfactual...

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The added worker effect differentiated by gender and partnership status : evidence from involuntary job loss

Triebe, Doreen - 2015

This paper examines the added worker effect (AWE), which refers to the increase of labor supply of individuals in response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies focus on married women's response to those shocks, I...

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Do you really want to share everything? : the wellbeing of work-linked couples

Hennecke, Juliane; Hetschko, Clemens - 2021

Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially so if partners work in the same occupation or industry. At the same time, being work-linked may benefit their career success. Still, surprisingly little is known about the...

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Gender identity and wives' labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016

Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019

We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family...

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With strings attached : grandparent-provided child care and female labor market outcomes

García-Morán, Eva; Kuehn, Zoë - 2013

Grandparents are regular providers of free child care. Similar to other forms of child care, availability of grandparent-provided child care affects fertility and labor force participation of women positively. However, grandparent-provided child care requires residing close to parents or in-laws...

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On the right track? - the role of work experience in migrant mothers' current employment probability

Boll, Christina; Lagemann, Andreas - 2021

This paper investigates the role of work experience in migrant mothers' current employment in Germany. Unlike previous … for migrant mothers compared to mi-grant fathers and non-migrant mothers. We conclude that current employ-ment is … significantly fueled by former employment; thus policies should be designed such that they help women to "get on the right track". …

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Does culture trump money? : employment and childcare use of migrant and non-migrant mothers of pre-school children in Germany

Boll, Christina; Lagemann, Andreas - 2018

This study investigates the employment and childcare use behaviour of migrant and non-migrant mothers in Germany. We … identify significant associations between migration background and employment probability, working hours, and childcare usage … probability under control of human capital, household, milieu, and macro factors. We correct for self-selection in employment and …

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Reforming family taxation in Germany : labor supply vs. insurance effects

Fehr, Hans; Kallweit, Manuel; Kindermann, Fabian - 2013

The present paper quantifies the economic consequences of eliminating the system of income splitting in Germany. We apply a dynamic simulation model with overlapping generations where single and married agents have to decide on labor supply and homework facing income and lifespan risk. The...

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