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Many fathers want to spend more time with their children and engage in household, but most of them continue to work full-time after the birth of a child. To better combine work and family, flexible working time arrangements might play a crucial role for fathers. Using data from the German...
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We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in the German Socio-Economic Panel. Living with a partner and living with a child both have substantial positive effects on earnings and work hours. These effects persist in fixed...
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indicate that a part of the marriage or cohabitation premium is not due to marriage or cohabitation itself, but to fatherhood …. When information on becoming a father and years spent in fatherhood is added to the empirical model, the results show that … fathers receive a 'fatherhood' premium during their first few years as fathers and that the initial marital wage premium is …
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. Chapter 4, “A Reconsideration of the Fatherhood Premium”, hypothesizes that lower commitment to the fatherhood role and … married, residential fatherhood is associated with wage gains, while nonresidential fatherhood and stepfatherhood are … fatherhood leads to no wage changes for men. …
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Commonly described as the "gender care gap", there is a persistent gender difference in the division of domestic responsibilities in most developed countries. We provide novel evidence on the short- and long-run effects of an exogenous shock on paternal availability, through a job loss, on the...
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Commonly described as "gender care gap", there is a persistent gender difference in the division of unpaid domestic responsibilities in developed countries. We use German survey data to provide novel evidence on short- and long-run effects of an exogenous shock on paternal availability, through...
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Fathers in the Nordic countries were among the first in the world to gain the right to paid parental leave. The overall uptake has however been low, despite various attempts to increase it. This paper compares characteristics of fathers in four Nordic countries, to identify important...
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