increases labor supply elasticities by up to 100 percent. As a consequence, we propose a new estimation strategy which overcomes …

young children in Germany fall apart. Potential explanations include financial incentives favoring the single-earner model …

Despite the increasing occurrence of part-time employment in Germany, the effects on wage rates are rarely studied. I … unobserved individual characteristics yields a wage cut of about 10 percent in West and East Germany. Furthermore, the type of … that the part-time wage gap shrinks, the empirical evidence reveals that wage differentials in West-Germany increased over …

This paper makes use of Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects. We focus on Germany …-level health dependencies. As dependent variable, we use the generic, continuous, and quasi-objective SF12 health measure. Our … is comparable to an age effect on health of up to 31 years. Even 20 years after the peaceful German reunification, we …

This paper explores the implications of gender-based income taxation in a non-cooperative model of a couple's time … by gender is solely determined by spouses' relative marginal rates of substitution between the public household good and … sharp contrast to previous models of gender-based taxation in which households select Pareto efficient allocations …

supply model for married women estimated on microdata from the Socio Economic Panel (SOEP) in Germany. We construct welfare …

Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individ-ual sports and exercise on … individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health …

term development. Based on the German national health survey for children, we study the impact of daycare in pre …