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Maternity leave and mothers' long-term sickness absence: Evidence from Germany
Guertzgen, Nicole; Hank, Karsten - 2014
Exploiting unique German administrative data, we estimate the association between an expansion in maternity leave duration from two to six months in 1979 and mothers' post-birth long-term sickness absence over a period of three decades after childbirth. Using a regression discontinuity design,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435450
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Maternity leave and mothers' long-term sickness absence: Evidence from Germany
Guertzgen, Nicole; Hank, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
Exploiting unique German administrative data, we estimate the association between an expansion in maternity leave duration from two to six months in 1979 and mothers' post-birth long-term sickness absence over a period of three decades after childbirth. Using a regression discontinuity design,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011097459
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On event studies and distributed-lags in two-way fixed effects models: Identification, equivalence, and generalization
Schmidheiny, Kurt; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2020
We discuss important properties and pitfalls of panel-data event study designs. We derive three main results. First, binning of effect window endpoints is a practical necessity and key for identification of dynamic treatment effects. Second, event study designs with binned endpoints and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012196434
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Explaining Reform Deadlocks
Heinemann, Friedrich - 2004
Countries are often slow to adjust their economic structures to new necessities although this reform reluctance is costly in terms of growth and employment. This paper analyses the relevant factors that block or foster economic reforms. Theoretical considerations show that there are at least...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297364
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The Drivers of Deregulation in the Era of Globalization
Heinemann, Friedrich - 2006
This paper treats the question to what extent globalization trends restrict a countryspecific regulation policy in industrial countries. The empirical analysis makes use of recently collected regulation indicators for four policy fields: financial market, product markets, labour markets and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297520
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Die Theorie der optimalen Währungsräume und die politische Reformfähigkeit: Ein vernachlässigtes Kriterium
Heinemann, Friedrich - 1998
In diesem Beitrag wird neben einem kurzen Überblick über die Argumentationsweise und Probleme der Theorie optimaler Währungsräume ein neues Beurteilungskriterium vorgestellt: die politische Reformfähigkeit potentieller Mitgliedstaaten einer Währungsunion. Hintergrund für diese Erweiterung...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297572
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The Drivers of Deregulation in the Era of Globalization
Heinemann, Friedrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
This paper treats the question to what extent globalization trends restrict a countryspecific regulation policy in industrial countries. The empirical analysis makes use of recently collected regulation indicators for four policy fields: financial market, product markets, labour markets and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097884
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Explaining Reform Deadlocks
Heinemann, Friedrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
Countries are often slow to adjust their economic structures to new necessities although this reform reluctance is costly in terms of growth and employment. This paper analyses the relevant factors that block or foster economic reforms. Theoretical considerations show that there are at least...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097907
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Die Theorie der optimalen Währungsräume und die politische Reformfähigkeit: Ein vernachlässigtes Kriterium
Heinemann, Friedrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1998
In diesem Beitrag wird neben einem kurzen Überblick über die Argumentationsweise und Probleme der Theorie optimaler Währungsräume ein neues Beurteilungskriterium vorgestellt: die politische Reformfähigkeit potentieller Mitgliedstaaten einer Währungsunion. Hintergrund für diese Erweiterung...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098121
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The sorting of female careers after first birth: A competing risks analysis of maternity leave duration
Arntz, Melanie; Dlugosz, Stephan; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2014
A number of contributions have found evidence for motherhood being a critical life event for women's employment careers … sorting mechanisms that lead to the differentiation of women's employment careers after birth. Our empirical evidence is de … unprecedented insights how women's skills, the quality of the previous job match, firm level characteristics, labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464345