Die kinderzahlabhängige Rente bleibt ein Dauerbrenner in der politischen und der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Diskussion über künftige Rentenreformen, sei es als "Kinderrente" oder "Elternrente", als Differenzierung des Beitragssatzes oder der Rentenhöhe. Die Diskussionen um die...

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...

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,...