burden with respect to gainful employment and providing care. We propose a family working time model that incentivizes … fathers and – contrary to most conventional family policies – actively promotes the dual earner/dual carer paradigm. Combining … microsimulation and labor supply estimation, we empirically analyze the potential of the family working time model in the German …

and regions covered in this publication are Austria, the European Union, France, Germany, the Netherlands, North America …

in working hours across countries. In this paper I test whether public programmes for family support play a role in … explaining this variation. I analyse two types of policies: childcare subsidies and family cash benefits. I distinguish between … and the US. Empirical analysis, however, does not support the family-policy explanation. The effects of the policies on …

contribute to the gender wage gap, and how institutional elements - especially family policies - affect this relationship. Our … analysis is based on a decomposition that reveals what portion of the gender wage gap may be attributed to: (1) the motherhood … wage penalty, (2) the fatherhood wage premium, and (3) the gender wage gap among childless individuals. Our findings …

the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are netted out by using a harmonized empirical …