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Effects of Early Childhood Intervention on Fertility and Maternal Employment : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Sandner, Malte - 2015

effects of the intervention on maternal employment, welfare benefits, and household composition. The study reveals that the … intervention unintentionally decreased maternal employment and increased subsequent births. These results contradict those of … previous studies from the United States, where home visiting programs successfully increased employment and decreased fertility …

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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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Wo(men) at Work? The Impact of Cohabiting and Married Partners' Earnings on Women's Work Hours

Triebe, Doreen - 2014

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...

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What Makes Single Mothers Expand or Reduce Employment?

Hancioglu, Mine - 2017

professional descent. Due to dynamics in women's life course identifying and analyzing restrictions and interruptions of employment … identifying episodes of single motherhood and employment during life courses. Since family statuses of single mothers are … with over time. Enhancing labor market participation or maintaining full-time employment as a single mother can be achieved …

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A New Color in the Picture : The Impact of Educational Fields on Fertility in Western Germany

Oppermann, Anja - 2012

employment and family life. The question this paper aims to answer is: How does the educational field influence the transition to … characteristic with regard to the share of women, the occupational specificity, the share of public-sector employment, and the share … of part-time employment among people educated in the field. The models take the educational level into account and …

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Effect of Labor Division between Wife and Husband on the Risk of Divorce : Evidence from German Data

Kraft, Kornelius; Neimann, Stefanie - 2009

Using German panel data from 1984 to 2007, we analyze the impact of labor division between husband and wife on the risk of divorce. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that specialization in domestic and market work, respectively, reduces the risk of separation. Traditionally, the...

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Fertility, Female Labor Supply, and Family Policy

Fehr, Hans - 2010

joint increase of the fertility rate and female employment rate as observed in cross-country studies …

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Women's Earning Power and the 'Double Burden' of Market and Household Work

Chen, Natalie; Conconi, Paola; Perroni, Carlo - 2008

Bargaining theory suggests that married women who experience a relative improvement in their labour market position should experience a comparative gain within their marriage. However, if renegotiation possibilities are limited by institutional mechanisms that achieve long-term commitment, the...

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With Strings Attached : Grandparent-Provided Child Care and Female Labor Market Outcomes

Garcia-Moran, Eva - 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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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation : An Analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie - 2014

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and in particular labor market...

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