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Social norms or income taxation : what drives couple's labor supply? ; experimental evidence ; conference paper
Schröder, Melanie; Schmitt, Norma; Mantei, Britta; … - 2014 - This version: February 2014, Preliminary version
(i.e. number of solved mazes) serving as our proxy for labor supply. We demonstrate that gender identity and (dis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483843
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Is the equal sharing of market work and family duties hampered by financial means or constraints? : evidence from a structural labor supply model with involuntary unemployment and...
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014 - Preliminary version: February 19, 2014
This paper analyzes the question why desired and actual sharing of market work and family duties among parents with young children in Germany fall apart. Potential explanations include financial incentives favoring the single-earner model, as well as constraints in choosing working hours due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484402
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Income taxation and labor supply : an experiment on couple's work effort ; conference paper
Schröder, Melanie; Schmitt, Norma; Heynemann, Britta; … - 2013 - This version: August 2013, Preliminary version
Complementary to microsimulation studies focusing on the impact of labor supply as a choice of hours worked we shed light on another variable that survey data are not capable of taking into account: the choice of work effort. Our aim is to investigate the effect of individual and joint taxation...
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Gender differences in career progression : does the effect of children capture low work effort? ; conference paper
Kunze, Astrid - 2013
This study exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data to investigate gender differences in the probability to … workers with high effort levels above the 60th residual earnings percentile, we find large gender differences in promotion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344629
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The German part-time wage gap : bad news for men ; conference paper
Wolf, Elke - 2013
Despite the increasing occurrence of part-time employment in Germany, the effects on wage rates are rarely studied. I therefore use GSOEP panel data from 1984 to 2010 and apply different econometric approaches and definitions of part-time work to measure the so-called part-time wage gap of both,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338945
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Closing the gender pay gap and individual task profiles : women's advantages from technological progress ; conference paper
Fedorets, Alexandra - 2014
In the present paper I provide novel evidence on the formation of the gender pay gap with respect to directly measured …-level task information, I provide detailed evidence on the evolution of task contents and their gender-specific remuneration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483888
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The labour supply of women in STEM : conference paper
Schlenker, Eva - 2013 - Preliminary version
The purpose of this paper is to assess the determinants of female labour supply in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Using data from the European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), the author finds that women in STEM work more hours, but have a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338952
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Parental benefits and mothers' labor market outcomes in the medium run : conference paper
Kluve, Jochen; Schmitz, Sebastian - 2014 - This version: 1 August 2014
Increasing mothers labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a … opportunity costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to become mothers and return to the labor force rapidly. Using a …-run effects on mothers employment probability are positive, significant and large, for some subgroups ranging up to 10 per cent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010489256
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Labour supply of households facing a risk of job loss
Gelade, Wouter; Nautet, Maud; Piton, Céline - International Research Conference on Household … - 2022 - This version: October 17, 2022
The impact of a job loss on partner's labour supply - often called the added worker effect - is a well-studied phenomenon. However, people might already adjust their labour supply when their partner is at risk of losing his/her job. Using Labour Force Survey (LFS) microdata, we quantify this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013443720