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Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to engage in unpaid work, and to marry and have children, is formulated as a forward-looking discrete choice dynamic programming problem. Simulated maximum likelihood estimates of...

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Does it Pay for Women to Volunteer?

Sauer, Robert M. - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2015

This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. Estimates of a DCDP model indicate that an extra year of volunteer experience increases wage offers by 8.5% in future part-time work and by 2.6% in future full-time work. On average, working for free...

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The economics of marriage

Cigno, Alessandro - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2011

In a separate-property jurisdiction, marriage may induce domestic cooperation, and enhance efficiency in the production of children, because it may lend credibility to the prospective main earner's promise to compensate the main childcarer when the children will no longer be economically...

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Changing the Rules Midway: The Impact of Granting Alimony Rights on Existing and Newly-Formed Partnerships

Lafortune, Jeanne; Chiappori, Pierre-Andre; Iyigun, Murat; … - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas … - 2012

The paper analyzes the effect of a reform granting alimony rights to cohabiting couples in Canada, exploiting the fact … analysis, based on a collective household model with a matching framework, predicts that changes in alimony laws would affect … right to petition for alimony led women to lower their labor force participation. These results, however, do not hold | and …

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A Dynamic Decision Model of Marriage, Childbearing, and Labor Force Participation of Women in Japan

Ueda, Atsuko - EconWPA - 2000

This paper empirically examines the life-time joint decision problem of marriage, childbearing, and labor force participation for women in Japan, motivated by the recent decrease in the number of marriages and the total fertility rate. Using the 1993-95 Japanese Panel Surveys of Consumption, the...

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Reforming Family Taxation in Germany - Labor Supply vs. Insurance Effects

Fehr, Hans; Kallweit, Manuel; Kindermann, Fabian - CESifo - 2013

The present paper quantifies the economic consequences of eliminating the system of income splitting in Germany. We apply a dynamic simulation model with overlapping generations where single and married agents have to decide on labor supply and homework facing income and lifespan risk. The...

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Reforming Family Taxation in Germany - Labor Supply versus Insurance Effects

Fehr, Hans; Kallweit, Manuel; Kindermann, Fabian - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 71 (2015) 1, pp. 53-81

The present paper quantifies the economic consequences of eliminating the system of income splitting in Germany. We apply a dynamic simulation model with overlapping generations where single and married agents decide on labor supply and homework under income and life-span risk. We compute...

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Revisiting ‘mothers and sons’ preference formation and the female labor force in Switzerland

Bütikofer, Aline - In: Labour Economics 20 (2013) C, pp. 82-91

This paper analyzes the interrelation between men's gender role attitudes and female labor supply decision. Following Fernández et al. (2004), I argue that the recent increases in the female labor market participation rate are driven by the growing proportion of men who were brought up in a...

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Reforming Family Taxation in Germany: Labor Supply vs. Insurance Effects

Fehr, Hans; Kallweit, Manuel; Kindermann, Fabian - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

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Causal effects on employment after first birth: A dynamic treatment approach

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin; Steffes, Susanne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

The effects of childbirth on future labor market outcomes are a key issue for policy discussion. This paper implements a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for the case of Germany, a country with a long maternity...

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