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Labor supply and child care choices in a rationed child care market
Wrohlich, Katharina (contributor) - 2006
In this paper, I suggest an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003377082
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Labor supply and child care choices in a rationed child care market
Wrohlich, Katharina - 2011
This paper presents an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579620
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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market
Wrohlich, Katharina - 2021
In this paper, I suggest an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317632
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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market
Wrohlich, Katharina - 2011
This paper presents an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014175936
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Maternal employment and childhood overweight in Germany
Meyer, Sophie-Charlotte - 2015
A widespread finding among studies from the US and the UK is that maternal employment is correlated with an increased risk of child overweight, even in a causal manner, whereas studies from European countries obtain less conclusive results. As evidence for Germany is still scarce, the purpose of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335006
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Return to work after childbirth : does parental leave matter in Europe?
Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2007
the probability of working in the period of time following the leave. Using data from ECHP, I select women who have a … the return to work in each country separately, I generalize the results, matching women with similar human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239784
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Natives and migrants in home production : the case of Germany
Forlani, Emanuele; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Mendolicchio, … - 2016
women from the German Socio-Economic Panel and we merge them with the data on the share of female immigrants and other … women to work longer hours and positively affects the probability to have a child. This effect strengthens for (medium …) skilled women and, among them, for women younger than 35 years of age. The negative change in household work attitude confirms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544260
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Short-run fertility effects of parental leave benefits : evidence from a structural model
Stichnoth, Holger - 2014
Based on a structural model of fertility and female labour force supply with unobserved heterogeneity and state dependence, we evaluate the 2007 reform of parental leave benefits in Germany, which replaced a flat, means-tested benefit by a generous earnings-related transfer. The model predicts a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010416349
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Causal effects on employment after first birth : a dynamic treatment approach
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin; Steffes, Susanne - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221734
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Causal effects on employment after first birth : a dynamic treatment approach
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin; Steffes, Susanne - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128337