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The rise of part-time work : a German-French comparison
Marotzke, Petra - 2019
I study possible determinants of part-time employment among women in France and Germany using microdata of the Labour … Force Survey. Voluntary part-time work is substantially more widespread among women in Germany than it is in France … both countries, their impact is substantially greater in Germany. Controlling for several factors, the probability of …
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Promotion prospects and within-level wage growth : a decomposition of the part-time penalty for women
Ilieva, Boryana - 2023
I study the life-cycle pattern of part-time employment and its impact on wage growth in female careers. I show that the part-time wage penalty consists of two essential components: i) a penalty for promotions and ii) a within-career-level wage penalty. Using dynamic structural modeling, I...
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How important is precautionary labor supply?
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Schmitz, Sebastian - 2016
We quantify the importance of precautionary labor supply using data from the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) for 2001-2012. We estimate dynamic labor supply equations augmented with a measure of wage risk. Our results show that married men choose about 2.5% of their hours of work or one week...
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Early retirement of employees in demanding jobs : evidence from a German pension reform
Geyer, Johannes; Lorenz, Svenja; Zwick, Thomas; Bruns, Mona - 2021
Early retirement options are usually targeted at employees at risk of not reaching their regular retirement age in employment. An important at‐risk group comprises employees who have worked in demanding jobs for many years. This group may be particularly negatively affected by the abolition of...
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ZEW-EviSTA : a microsimulation model of the German tax and transfer system
Buhlmann, Florian; Hebsaker, Michael; Kreuz, Tobias; … - 2022 - First version: June 2022
This article describes ZEW-EviSTA®, the microsimulation model developed and used at ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim. The model simulates the German tax and transfer system using household micro level data. By estimating fiscal effects, labor market outcomes as well as...
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The effects of Germany's new minimum wage on employment and welfare dependency
Schmitz, Sebastian - 2017
In January 2015, Germany introduced a federal, statutory minimum wage of 8.50 € per hour. This study evaluates the …
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Hours risk and wage risk : repercussions over the life-cycle
Jessen, Robin; König, Johannes - 2020
We decompose permanent earnings risk into contributions from hours and wage shocks. To distinguish between hours shocks, modeled as innovations to the marginal disutility of work, and labor supply reactions to wage shocks we formulate a life-cycle model of consumption and labor supply. Both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145317
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Do women expect wage cuts for part-time work?
Schrenker, Annekatrin - 2020
Wage expectations for full- and part-time employment are key for understanding the labor supply decisions of women. However, whether women expect different wages between part-time and full-time work is not fully understood. Using German survey data, I quantify the expected full-time/part-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012285506
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Does the right to work part-time affect mothers' labor market outcomes?
Paule-Paludkiewicz, Hannah - 2024
differences-in-differences design to investigate a reform in Germany that granted the right to work part-time to employees of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014548124
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On household labour supply in sticky-wage HANK models
Gerke, Rafael; Giesen, Sebastian; Lozej, Matija; … - 2024 - November 24, 2023
Heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian models with sticky nominal wages usually assume that wage-setting unions demand the same amount of hours from all households. As a result, unions do not take account of the fact that (i) households are heterogeneous in their willingness to work, and that (ii)...
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