Is gender a primary determinant of patterns of participation in the labor force among adult men and women with … different household responsibilities? No, although gender affects employment decisions indirectly, through household role. Labor …

burden with respect to gainful employment and providing care. We propose a family working time model that incentivizes … fathers and – contrary to most conventional family policies – actively promotes the dual earner/dual carer paradigm. Combining … microsimulation and labor supply estimation, we empirically analyze the potential of the family working time model in the German …

response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies … whether intra-household adaptation mechanisms differ by gender and by partnership status. The underlying method is a …