Increasing maternal employment rates engage policies and people for decades. It is pushed but also questioned at the … raising. This paper addresses the question what is the effect of the parent's money reform of 2007 on maternal employment … done to investigate causal effects of the reform on the employment rates of mothers. The results reveal that the mothers …

This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and ….5 percentage points. At the same time, closing both the gender and education gaps would raise the EU employment rate from 76% to 89 …% of the population. Furthermore, we provide new evidence on the cyclical behaviour of employment gaps, finding that gender …

This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for … violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study we also find that the … exceeds the husband’s income. The results of the fixed effects regression confirm that gender identity has an impact on the …

This study presents credible estimates for the causal effect of a variation in obesity on employment. By exploring … positively affects the employment prospects of obese women but not of obese men. Consistent with this, significant effects of … ; IV estimation ; sample selection ; labor productivity ; employment …

This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for … violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) we also find that the … exceeds the husband’s income. The results of the fixed effects regression confirm that gender identity has an impact on the …