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Working more for less : part-time penalties across the working hours distribution
Günther, Tom; Schneider, Ulrich; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian - 2023
We use German administrative and survey data to investigate the heterogeneity of part-time penalties in hourly wages and growth rates. Exploiting tax reforms for identification, we find substantial heterogeneity in part-time wage penalties from -28.3% to -7.2% compared to full-time. The...
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Working more for less : part-time penalties across the working hours distribution?
Günther, Tom; Schneider, Ulrich C.; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian - 2023
We use German administrative and survey data to investigate the heterogeneity of parttime penalties in hourly wages and growth rates. Exploiting tax reforms for identification, we find substantial heterogeneity in part-time wage penalties from −28.3% to −7.2% compared to full-time. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343107
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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Changing fertility and heterogeneous motherhood effects : revisiting the effects of a parental benefits reform
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - 2024
outcomes in Germany, the child penalty. We further investigate how the 2007 parental benefits reform changed the child penalty … while accounting for fertility effects. A large novel data set linking data from two administrative sources provides …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014545044
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Changing fertility and heterogeneous motherhood effects : revisiting the effects of a parental benefits reform
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - 2024
outcomes in Germany, the child penalty. We further investigate how the 2007 parental benefits reform changed the child penalty … while accounting for fertility effects. A large novel data set linking data from two administrative sources provides … positive medium-run effects employment outcomes. It changes the selection into fertility and shows heterogeneous effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014527065
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Motherhood and the allocation of talent
Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Mata, Dolores de la; … - 2020
In this paper we assess whether changes in labor market decisions upon motherhood lead to potential inefficient allocations of talent. Using an event study approach with retrospective data drawn from SHARE for 29 European countries we show that motherhood effects go beyond the well studied...
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Analysis of twins
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2022
The occurrence of twin births has been widely used as a natural experiment. With a focus upon the use of twin births for identification of causal effects in economics, this chapter provides a critical review of methods and results.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414378
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Work, care and gender during the COVID-19 crisis
Hupkau, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2020
We explore impacts of the pandemic crisis and associated restrictions to economic activity on paid and unpaid work for men and women in the UK. Using data from the Covid-19 supplement of Understanding Society, we find evidence that labour market outcomes of men and women were roughly equally...
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Universal childcare for the youngest and the maternal labour supply
Kunze, Astrid; Liu, Xingfei - 2019
In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We measure female labour supply at both the extensive and intensive margin. For identification, we exploit a nationwide reform that expanded childcare for 1–2- year-olds in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973903
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Universal childcare for the youngest and the maternal labour supply
Kunze, Astrid; Liu, Xingfei - 2019
In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We measure female labour supply at both the extensive and intensive margin. For identification, we exploit a nationwide reform that expanded childcare for 1-2- year-olds in Norway....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979049