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Fixed-term employment and fertility : theory and evidence from German micro data ; conference paper
Auer, Wolfgang; Danzer, Natalia; Rainer, Helmut - 2013
In Germany, it has become conventional wisdom that the economic uncertainty associated fixed-term employment contracts prevents young couples from realizing their desire to have children. From a research perspective, it is however far from clear whether fixed-term contracts are the obstacle to...
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How to avoid a pension crisis : a question of intelligent system design
Cigno, Alessandro - 2009
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936144
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Fertility effects of college education : evidence from the German educational expansion
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Westphal, Matthias - 2019
fertility. While college education reduces the probability of becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have more children …Using arguably exogenous variation in college expansions we estimate the effects of college education on female … than mothers without a college education. Lower child–income penalties of college-educated mothers of two relative to …
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Socio-economic circumstances at birth and early motherhood : the case of the "Daughters of the Wall"
Kleinjans, Kristin J. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 244 (2024) 1/2, pp. 113-129
fertility in East Germany. But did it also affect the fertility of future generations? In this paper, I investigate early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014515578
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How to avoid a pension crisis: a question of intelligent system design
Cigno, Alessandro - 2009
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264592
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How to avoid a pension crisis : a question of intelligent system design
Cigno, Alessandro - 2009
and money in their upbringing. -- Pension reform ; implicit pension taxes and subsidies ; child benefits ; fertility …
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How to Avoid a Pension Crisis : A Question of Intelligent System Design
Cigno, Alessandro - 2010
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect, which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The article outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147651
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How to Avoid a Pension Crisis : A Question of Intelligent System Design
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316388
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If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands : how do mothers and fathers really feel about child caregiving?
Connelly, Rachel; Kimmel, Jean - 2013
This paper considers the question posed by popular media, do women like doing child care more than men? Using experienced emotions data paired with 24 hour time diaries from the 2010 American Time Use Survey, the paper explores gender differences in how men and women who have done some child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009783670
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Time is Money – The Influence of Parenthood Timing on Wages
Kind, Michael; Kleibrink, Jan - 2012
and fertility timing. We find that delaying parenthood by one additional year during the career implies a wage premium of …
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