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Parental leave and maternal labor supply : parental leave increases the family-work balance, but may have negative impacts on mothers' careers
Kunze, Astrid - 2016
Numerous studies have investigated whether the provision and generosity of parental leave affects the employment and career prospects of women. Parental leave systems typically provide either short unpaid leave mandated by the firm, as in the US, or more generous and universal leave mandated by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514535
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The kids are alright? : a note on parental satisfaction in Germany
Humpert, Stephan - In: Theoretical and applied economics : GAER review 22 (2015) 2, pp. 285-292
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The stress cost of children
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wooden, Mark - 2015
We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how demographic events affect perceived time and financial stress. Consistent with the view of measures of stress as proxies for the Lagrangean multipliers in models of household production,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472536
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Economic and social perspectives of immigrant children in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2001
Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the … vulnerable position of Germany?s children are necessary. These policies should cover targeted financial transfers as well as … improvements in day care provision for children. With respect to selected non-monetary as well as monetary indicators our empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001585127
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A note on the importance of normalizations in dynamic latent factor models of skill formation
Del Bono, Emilia; Kinsler, Josh; Pavan, Ronni - 2020
Research on child skill formation and related policies typically rely on parent- reported measures of child non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we show that parental assessments of child non-cognitive skills are directly affected by the skills of the parents. We develop a dynamic model of child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293678
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Parental unemployment, social insurance and child well-being across countries
Hansen, Kerstin F.; Stutzer, Alois - 2020
Based on a unique repeated cross-sectional data set of school-aged children in Europe, the Middle East and North … America, we analyze how children's subjective well-being is related to parents' employment status, depending on the … institutional context. We find that parental unemployment is strongly negatively related to children's life satisfaction across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295227
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Child deprivation and social benefits : Europe in cross-national perspective
Bárcena Martín, Elena; Blázquez Cuesta, Maite; … - In: Socio-economic review 15 (2017) 4, pp. 717-744
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Refugees in Germany with children still living abroad have lowest life satisfaction
Gambaro, Ludovica; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Schacht, Diana; … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 42, pp. 415-425
individuals aged between 18 and 49, nine percent have minor children living outside Germany, whereas twelve percent have a husband …
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Income effects on children's life satisfaction : longitudinal evidence for England
Knies, Gundi - 2017
Using longitudinal data for children aged 10-15 years living in England in 2009-2014 we test the hypothesis that income … matters for children’s life satisfaction. The results suggest that children are more satisfied with life the more income their … family has. Income effects are larger the less income the family has and statistically significant for children from the age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621542
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Parental leave and maternal labor supply : parental leave increases the family-work balance, but prolonged leave may have negative impacts on mothers' careers
Kunze, Astrid - 2022
Numerous studies have investigated whether the provision and generosity of parental leave affects the employment and career prospects of women. Parental leave systems typically provide either short unpaid leave mandated by the firm, as in the US, or more generous and universal leave mandated by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013413198