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Earnings-dependent parental leave benefit and fertility : evidence from Germany ; conference paper
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2013
This paper examines the effects of a major change in German parental transfer system on fertility. I use the largely unanticipated reform of 2007 as a natural experiment to assess how an earnings-dependent parental leave benefit effects higher-order fertility. Given the recent introduction, this...
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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 …-run effects on mothers employment probability are positive, significant and large, for some subgroups ranging up to 10 per cent …. The effects are driven by gains in part-time but not full-time employment. We also find significant increases in working …
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Does work-time flexibility really improve the reconciliation of family and work? : conference paper
Scheffel, Juliane - 2013
Temporal work flexibility is often viewed as means to improve the reconciliation of family and work. By exploiting theGerman re-unification and the particularities of the labor market of the German Democratic Republic, I show that flexitime allows mothers to spend more time with their children....
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Two steps forward : one step back? ; evaluating recent child care policies in Germany ; conference paper
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014 - This version: March 1st 2014, Preliminary and incomplete
the same age group and both are unconditional on the parents income or employment status. In this paper, we present a …
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Women's employment in a comparative perspective
Lippe, Tanja van der (contributor);  … - 2001
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Work-family challenges for low-income parents and their children
Crouter, Ann C. (ed.); Booth, Alan (contributor) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001795354
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Does the expansion of public child care increase birth rates? : evidence from a low-fertility country ; conference paper
Hener, Timo; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rainer, Helmut - 2013
Germany has the lowest birth rate among all OECD countries. To encourage fertility, the federal government has recently … fertility may be reversed through changes in public policy that allow women to combine employment and motherhood. …
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The effect of early universal daycare on child weight problems : conference paper
Lauber, Verena; Thomas, Lampert - 2014 - Preliminary version
As the number of young children in daycare increases, people start to worry about the effect of early non-parental care. This is of special relevance as investments in the early periods of life are shown to be most important for a child’s long term development. Based on the German national...
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Culture and the spatial dissemination of ideas evidence from Froebel's kindergarten movement : conference paper
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver - 2013 - This version: January 2013
spatial dissemination of the kindergarten movement in Germany in the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Spatial …
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Familienkompetenzen: Ressourcen für die Arbeitswelt : vom 21. November 1997 in München ; Dokumentation ; produktiv, innovativ, kreativ
Petrović, Karin (contributor) - 1997
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