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Evolution and determinants of rent burdens in Germany
Backhaus, Teresa; Gebers, Kathrin; Schröder, Carsten - 2015
The affordability of housing has become a major topic of discussion in Germany among both social scientists and the public at large. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we provide rent-income ratios over more than two decades and show how they change with households’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441591
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Housing decisions, family types and gender : a look across LIS countries
Rossi, Mariacristina; Sierminska, Eva - 2015
In this paper we shall examine homeownership trends over the past 3 to 4 decades and discuss differences related to the homeownership gap for women and men, with a focus on most recent trends. We shall compare differences in the US to those in countries with different institutional structures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442308
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Does grandparenting pay off for the next generations? : intergenerational effects of grandparental care
Barschkett, Mara; Spieß, C. Katharina; Ziege, Elena - 2021
parental satisfaction with the childcare situation and leisure. The effects for mothers correspond to an increase of 11 percent … in satisfaction with the childcare situation and 14 percent in satisfaction with leisure, compared to the mean, although … the results differ by child age. While the increase in paternal satisfaction with the childcare situation is, at 21 …
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Parental well-being in times of Covid-19 in Germany
Huebener, Mathias; Waights, Sevrin; Spieß, C. Katharina; … - 2020
We examine the differential effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a "disruptive exogenous shock" to family life. We make use of a novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257108
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Shared parenting and parents' income evolution after separation - new explorative insights from Germany
Boll, Christina; Schüller, Simone - 2021
residence and fathers' childcare hours during a regular weekday. We explore the short-term gender and SP group associations with … childcare even in shared parenting settings and/or fail to redirect released childcare time to the labor market. Our data …
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The situation is serious, but not hopeless - evidence-based considerations on the intracouple division of childcare before, during and after the Covid-19 lockdown
Boll, Christina; Schüller, Simone - 2020
children below age 13 to investigate the paternal involvement in domestic childcare and the relation of the underlying … constellations which are most likely to manifest an increase in the proportion of paternal childcare in the post-pandemic period …
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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 … potential endogeneity of childcare use. We do not find an additional contribution of a migrant background to mothers' use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011961929
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Fathers' parental leave-taking, childcare involvement and mothers' labor market participation
Tamm, Marcus - 2018
-lasting effects on fathers' involvement in childcare and housework. Effects on maternal labor supply are also significantly positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957637
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Inequality aversion and risk attitudes
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2010
Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824273
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Measuring income in household panel surveys for Germany : a comparison of EU-SILC and SOEP
Frick, Joachim R.; Krell, Kristina - 2010
Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) as well as data from the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824473