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The effects of family policy on mothers' labor supply : combining evidence from a structural model and a natural experiment
Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014
family life and labor market careers for mothers. In this paper, we combine different empirical strategies to evaluate the … employment effects of these policies for mothers in Germany. In particular we estimate a structural labor supply model and … exploit a natural experiment, i.e. the reform of parental leave benefits. By exploiting and combining the advantages of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010259541
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The effects of family policy on mothers' labor supply : combining evidence from a structural model and a natural experiment
Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014
family life and labor market careers for mothers. In this paper, we combine different empirical strategies to evaluate the … employment effects of these policies for mothers in Germany. In particular we estimate a structural labor supply model and … exploit a natural experiment, i.e. the reform of parental leave benefits. By exploiting and combining the advantages of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345617
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Sharing competences : the impact of local institutional settings on voter turnout
Michelsen, Claus; Bönisch, Peter; Rosenfeld, Martin T. W. - 2010
Institutions are common predictors of voter turnout. Most research in this field focuses on cross-country comparisons of voting systems, like the impact of compulsory voting or registration systems. Fewer efforts have been devoted to understand the role of local institutions and their impact on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009127460
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Representing the future in aging societies : policy implications of the voting age reform in Germany
Asatryan, Zareh - 2022
Aging societies face a fundamental challenge: How to represent future oriented policies in the politics of today? Voting age reforms and, more generally, policies that encourage the participation of the youth in politics are discussed as one solution. In this report, we study whether voting age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013492979
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Even in the best of both worlds, you can't have it all : how German voters navigate the trilemma of mixed-member proportionality
Haffert, Lukas; Langenbach, Pascal; Rommel, Tobias - 2023 - This version: July 2023
The fragmentation of the party system has confronted the German mixed-member proportional electoral system with a trilemma. It can only ensure two out of three goals: proportionality, guaranteed representation of district winners, and a fixed and predictable size of the Bundestag. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014312230
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Voting rules, turnout, and economic policies
Cantoni, Enrico; Pons, Vincent; Schäfer, Jérôme - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015070244
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Voting Rules, Turnout, and Economic Policies
Cantoni, Enrico; Pons, Vincent; Schäfer, Jérôme - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
In recent years, voter ID laws and convenience voting have generated heated partisan debates. To shed light on these policy issues, we survey the recent evidence on the institutional determinants and effects of voter turnout and broaden the perspective beyond the most debated rules. We begin by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072883
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Single motherhood in East and West Germany : what can explain the differences?
Jirjahn, Uwe; Struewing, Cornelia - 2015
The share of single mothers is higher in East Germany than in West Germany. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305369
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A multilevel analysis of child care and the transition to motherhood in Western Germany
Hank, Karsten; Kreyenfeld, Michaela - 2002
In this paper, we take a multilevel perspective to investigate the role of child care in the transition to motherhood in Germany. We argue that in the European institutional context the availability of public day care and informal child care arrangements should be a central element of the local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436265
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Child care reforms and labor participation of migrant and native mothers
Fendel, Tanja; Jochimsen, Beate - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung - 2017
öffentlicher Kinderbetreuung zu steigern. Ob die letzten Kinderbetreuungsreformen von 2013 in dieser Hinsicht erfolgreich sind, ist … keine öffentliche Kinderbetreuung nutzen, negative Effekte zu erwarten sind, sollte der seit 2013 geltende Rechtsanspruch … auf öffentliche Betreuung für Kinder des gleichen Alters zu einem Anstieg der Nutzung öffentlicher Kinderbetreuung führen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630743