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Roadblocks on the road to grandma's house : fertility consequences of delayed retirement
Battistin, Erich; De Nadai, Michele; Padula, Mario - 2015
We investigate the role of grandparental childcare for fertility decisions of their offspring. Exploiting pension … reforms in Italy, we argue that delayed retirement represents a negative shock to the supply of informal childcare for the … completed fertility for many cohorts in our data. Consistent with our interpretation, we show that results are limited to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283009
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Roadblocks on the Road to Grandma's House : Fertility Consequences of Delayed Retirement
Battistin, Erich - 2014
This paper investigates the role of childcare provided by grandparents for the fertility decisions of their offspring … informal childcare for the next generation.Our results show that one additional grandparent available in the early child …-bearing years increases by about five percent the number of children. We show that the fertility effects of delayed retirement are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055892
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Career breaks after childbirth : the impact of family leave reforms in the Czech Republic
Bičáková, Alena; Kalíčková, Klára - 2016
The Czech Republic is a country with a strong attachment of women to the labor market, but with one of the longest paid family leaves, which is often followed by a spell of unemployment. Using a difference-in-differences methodology, we study the impact of two reforms of the duration of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526725
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The relationship between hours of domestic services and female earnings : panel register data evidence from a reform
Halldén, Karin; Stenberg, Anders - 2014
In 2007, a tax discount reform in Sweden reduced prices of outsourced domestic services (ODS) by 50 percent. Unlike most previous studies, population register data enable us to directly link a proxy for relaxed time constraints, annual changes in households' tax discounts, to changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441693
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Less alimony after divorce : spouses' behavioral response to the 2008 alimony reform in Germany
Bredtmann, Julia; Vonnahme, Christina - 2017
The 2008 alimony reform in Germany considerably reduced post-marital and caregiver alimony. We analyze how individuals adapted to these changed rulings in terms of labor supply, the intra-household allocation of leisure, and marital stability. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694836
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Less alimony after divorce : spouses' behavioral response to the 2008 alimony reform in Germany
Bredtmann, Julia; Vonnahme, Christina - 2017
The 2008 alimony reform in Germany considerably reduced post-marital and caregiver alimony. We analyze how individuals adapted to these changed rulings in terms of labor supply, the intra-household allocation of leisure, and marital stability. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011745678
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Early labor market prospects and family formation
Engdahl, Mattias; Godard, Mathilde; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2018
We use quasi-random variation in graduation years during the onset of a very deep national recession to study the relationship between early labor market conditions and young females' family formation outcomes. A policy-pilot affecting the length of upper-secondary education in Swedish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951944
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Early labor market prospects and family formation
Engdahl, Mattias; Godard, Mathilde; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2019
We use quasi-random variation in graduation years during the onset of a very deep national recession to study the relationship between early labor market conditions and young females' family formation outcomes. A policy-pilot affecting the length of upper-secondary vocational tracks allows us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973131
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In good company : neighborhood quality and female employment
Bechara, Peggy; Eilers, Lea; Paloyo, Alfredo R. - 2015
Using a uniquely assembled panel dataset, we estimate the impact of neighborhood and peer effects on female labor supply. Nonrandom sorting and unobserved heterogeneity at the individual and neighborhood levels make recovering these impact parameters more complicated in the absence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479305
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Causal effects on employment after first birth : a dynamic treatment approach
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin; Steffes, Susanne - 2013
The effects of childbirth on future labor market outcomes are a key issue for policy discussion. This paper implements a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for the case of Germany, a country with a long maternity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128337