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's retirement decision. Using administrative pension insurance records from Germany, I examine the impact of a pension subsidy …
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data and a large retirement reform, I document that parents' retirement significantly affects the labor supply of their … adult children. This inter-generational link is driven solely by mothers. Concretely, mothers' retirement permanently … earlier, suggesting an important role of informal childcare as a driving mechanism. Survey data confirm that retirement …
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The motherhood wage penalty denotes the difference in wages between mothers and women without children that is not explained by differences in human capital characteristics and labor market experience. As part of the gender pay gap, the motherhood wage penalty can represent a significant cost to...
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's retirement decision. Using administrative pension insurance records from Germany, I examine the impact of a pension subsidy …
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's probability of working and reduced the time they devoted to child rearing. EI also caused women to obtain more stable jobs and it … increased their labor incomes. Affected husbands spent less time on child rearing and housework, and they were more likely to …
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Women experience significant reductions in labor market income following the birth of children, while their male partners experience no such income drops. This "relative child penalty" has been well documented and accounts for a significant amount of the gender income gap. In this paper we do...
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In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing age because she might get pregnant. However, such labour demand e ects of job protection measures related to maternity leave are often rather anecdotal. To provide analytical...
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in the motherhood wage penalty over time. We compare two sweeps of reforms inspired by opposite principles, one allowing … previously assessed in the 1990s. As parental leave reform triggered longer time spent on leave coupled with better tenure …
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