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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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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...
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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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fertility in East Germany. But did it also affect the fertility of future generations? In this paper, I investigate early …
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and money in their upbringing. -- Pension reform ; implicit pension taxes and subsidies ; child benefits ; fertility …
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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
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
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...
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and fertility timing. We find that delaying parenthood by one additional year during the career implies a wage premium of … 7%. -- Fertility ; Wage Differentials ; Career Path …
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and fertility timing. We find that delaying parenthood by one additional year during the career implies a wage premium of … 7%. -- Fertility ; wage differentials ; career path …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580145