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Economic Incentives and the Timing of Births : Evidence from the German Parental Benefit Reform 2007
Neugart, Michael; Ohlsson, Henry - 2009
Economic theory suggests that incentives matter for people's decisions. This paper investigates whether this also holds … government changed its parental benefit system January 1, 2007. The policy change strongly increased economic incentives for … women to postpone delivery to the new year provided that they were employed. The incentives for women not employed were not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014204807
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Explaining benefit take-up behavior : the role of incentives and habits
Rosenqvist, Olof; Selin, Håkan - 2023
Take-up of social benefits is a central issue in poverty alleviation and fiscal evaluations of policy reforms. However, it is difficult t o fi nd exogenous variation in the benefit level, and little is therefore known about takeup responses to basic financial i ncentives. We exploit large and...
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Parental leave and mothers' careers : the relative importance of job protection and cash benefits
Lalive, Rafael; Schlosser, Analia; Steinhauer, Andreas; … - 2011
Parental leave regulations in most OECD countries have two key policy instruments: job protection and cash benefits. This paper studies how mothers' return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of these key policy parameters. Exploiting a series of major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309567
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Parental leave and mothers' careers : the relative importance of job protection and cash benefits
Lalive, Rafael; Schlosser, Analia; Steinhauer, Andreas; … - 2011
Parental leave regulations in most OECD countries have two key policy instruments: job protection and cash benefits. This paper studies how mothers' return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of these key policy parameters. Exploiting a series of major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009492547
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Parental leave and mothers' careers : the relative importance of job protection and cash benefits
Lalive, Rafael; Schlosser, Analia; Steinhauer, Andreas; … - 2011
Parental leave regulations in most OECD countries have two key policy instruments: job protection and cash benefits. This paper studies how mothers return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of these key policy parameters. Exploiting a series of major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344841
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Parental Leave and Mothers' Careers : The Relative Importance of Job Protection and Cash Benefits
Lalive, Rafael - 2011
Parental leave regulations in most OECD countries have two key policy instruments: job protection and cash benefits. This paper studies how mothers' return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of these key policy parameters. Exploiting a series of major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118567
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Paid Parental Leave and Child Development : Evidence from the 2007 German Parental Benefit Reform and Administrative Data
Huebener, Mathias - 2017
This paper examines the effects of a substantial change in publicly funded paid parental leave in Germany on child development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960138
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Parental leave and mother's careers : the relative importance of job protection and cash benefits
Lalive, Rafael; Schlosser, Analia; Steinhauer, Andreas; … - 2011
Parental leave regulations in most OECD countries have two key policy instruments: job protection and cash benefits. This paper studies how mothers' return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of these key policy parameters. Exploiting a series of major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740158
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Parental Leave and Mothers' Careers : The Relative Importance of Job Protection and Cash Benefits
Lalive, Rafael; Schlosser, Analia; Steinhauer, Andreas; … - 2021
Parental leave regulations in most OECD countries have two key policy instruments: job protection and cash benefits. This paper studies how mothers' return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of these key policy parameters. Exploiting a series of major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316004
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The effect of child benefit on female labor supply
Magda, Iga; Kiełczewska, Aneta; Brandt, Nicola - In: IZA journal of labor policy 10 (2020) 1/17, pp. 1-18
In 2016, the Polish government introduced a large child benefit, called "Family 500+", with the aim to increase fertility and reduce child poverty. It is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. We study the impact of the new benefit on female labor...
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