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The Introduction of a Short-Term Earnings-Related Parental Leave Benefit System and Differential Employment Effects

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2010

German family policy underwent a reform in 2007, when the new instrument of "Elterngeld" replaced the previous "Erziehungsgeld". The transfer programs differ in various dimensions. We study the effects on the labor supply of young mothers, by comparing behavior before and after the reform. We...

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Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017

We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that had paid benefits for up to two years was replaced by an earnings related transfer which paid...

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Lohnentwicklung im Lebenszyklus

Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 44 (2011) 1/2, pp. 29-41

This paper summarizes the findings of studies which investigate the determinants of wages in Germany, using data of the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). The empirical analyses apply least squares estimates as well as the estimators developed by Altonji and Shakotko, Rev. Econ. Stud. 54, 437...

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Employment Effects of Payroll Tax Subsidies

Collischon, Matthias; Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2018

This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships between subsidized and non-subsidized labor demand. We apply an instrumental variables approach and use administrative data on German...

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Income and Employment Effects of Health Shocks - A Test Case for the German Welfare State

Riphahn, Regina T. - 1998

the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average and …

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Female labor supply and parental leave benefits: the causal effect of paying higher transfers for a shorter period of time

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009

We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects.

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Female labor supply and parental leave benefits: the causal effect of paying higher transfers for a shorter period of time

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009

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Youth unemployment: Déjà Vu?

Bell, David N.F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2010

and effects of youth unemployment using micro-data. It argues that there is convincing evidence that the young are … particularly susceptible to the negative effects of spells of unemployment well after their initial experience of worklessness …. Because the current youth cohort is relatively large, the longer-term outlook for youth unemployment is quite good, but there …

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Female labor supply and parental leave benefits: The causal effect of paying higher transfers for a shorter period of time

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009

We study the labor supply effects of a major change in child-subsidy policy in Germany in 2007 designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform involved a move from a means-tested maternity leave benefit system that paid a maximum of 300 Euro for...

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The employment of mothers: Recent developments and their determinants in East and West Germany

Hanel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2010

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences disappear over time, and whether there are differences...

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