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Employment of Mothers After Childbirth: French-German Comparison
Weber, Andrea Maria; Lauer, Charlotte - 2003
This paper compares the work attachment of French and German women after childbirth. Both fertility and employment of … impacts can be related to different family policy regulations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297301
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Self-Productivity in Early Childhood
Coneus, Katja; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2007
Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297940
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Self-Productivity in Early Childhood
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Coneus, Katja - 2007
Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297944
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Mutter-Kind-Interaktion im Säuglingsalter, Familienumgebung und Entwicklung früher kognitiver und nicht-kognitiver Fähigkeiten: Eine prospektive Studie
Blomeyer, Dorothea; Laucht, Manfred; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; … - 2010
In der vorliegenden Studie wird anhand von Daten einer prospektiven Längsschnittstudie (Mannheimer Risikokinderstudie) untersucht, welchen Beitrag die Qualität der Mutter-Kind-Interaktion (MKI) im Säuglingsalter zur Vorhersage kognitiver (IQ) und nicht-kognitiver Fähigkeiten (Persistenz) bis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300505
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Pollution exposure and infant health: Evidence from Germany
Coneus, Katja; Spieß, Christa Katharina - 2010
This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three …, our results further support the advice to parents of young children not to smoke. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302999
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Impacts of parental health on children's development of personality traits and problem behavior: Evidence from parental health shocks
Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M.; Westermaier, Franz - 2011
In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior … health variation to identify these effects and control for child and family characteristics including variables reflecting … significant impacts on children's emotional symptoms, hyperactivity and neuroticism. Paternal health seems to be less relevant for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306004
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Map Intersection Based Merging Schemes for Administrative Data Sources and an Application to Germany
Arntz, Melanie; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005
In many situations the applied researcher wants to combine different data sources without knowing the exact link and merging rule. This paper introduces a theoretical framework how two different regional administrative data sources can be merged. It presents different merging schemes based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297429
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - 2000
Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297711
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Labour supply of married women in Poland: a microeconometric study based on the Polish labour force survey
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1995
labour supply than the average person. In addition, wives with young children tend to have both lower participation rates and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299559
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Short-run fertility effects of parental leave benefits: Evidence from a structural model
Stichnoth, Holger - 2014
Based on a structural model of fertility and female labour force supply with unobserved heterogeneity and state … generous earnings-related transfer. The model predicts a short-term fertility effect of about 4%, which is consistent with … recent quasi-experimental evidence. The fertility effect is strongest for first births and increases with income. We use the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420393