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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994656
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What makes single mothers expand or reduce employment?
Hancioglu, Mine; Hartmann, Bastian - 2012
professional descent. Due to dynamics in women's life course identifying and analyzing restrictions and interruptions of employment … life. Among institutional determinants welfare benefits have a negative effect on the market labor participation of women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282638
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A new color in the picture: The impact of educational fields on fertility in Western Germany
Oppermann, Anja - 2012
parenthood of women and men in Western Germany? The German Socio Economic Panel (1984-2010) provides the data. Discrete time … characteristic with regard to the share of women, the occupational specificity, the share of public-sector employment, and the share … fields matter for the transition to a first birth only for women. For men, the results do not show a significant impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289368
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What Makes Single Mothers Expand or Reduce Employment?
Hancioglu, Mine; Hartmann, Bastian - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
professional descent. Due to dynamics in women's life course identifying and analyzing restrictions and interruptions of employment … life. Among institutional determinants welfare benefits have a negative effect on the market labor participation of women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550326
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A New Color in the Picture: The Impact of Educational Fields on Fertility in Western Germany
Oppermann, Anja - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
parenthood of women and men in Western Germany? The German Socio Economic Panel (1984-2010) provides the data. Discrete time … characteristic with regard to the share of women, the occupational specificity, the share of public-sector employment, and the share … fields matter for the transition to a first birth only for women. For men, the results do not show a significant impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896262
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Effects of early childhood intervention on fertility and maternal employment: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Sandner, Malte - 2015
This paper presents the results of a randomized study of a home visiting program implemented in Germany for low-income, first-time mothers. A major goal of the program is to improve the participants' economic self-sufficiency and family planning. I use administrative data from the German social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439786
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Parental ethnic identity and educational attainment of second-generation immigrants
Schüller, Simone - 2012
A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286904
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Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants
Schüller, Simone - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128954
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Potenziale unfreiwilliger Teilzeit in Deutschland
Tobsch, Verena; Holst, Elke - 2019
Working-time political debates often focus on options for flexible and variable working hours. Meanwhile, employees' desire for more time sovereignty is gaining relevance. Although working time preferences and their impact on the German labor market are investigated in numerous studies, findings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009512
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Reciprocity and Incentive Pay in the Workplace
Dur, Robert; Non, Arjan; Roelfsema, Hein - 2009
We study optimal incentive contracts for workers who are reciprocal to management attention. When neither worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600821