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The employment of mothers : recent developments and their determinants in East and West Germany

Broadway, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2010

. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences … time. -- employment ; mothers ; parental leave ; East Germany ; child care …

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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …

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Wind of change? : cultural determinants of maternal labor supply

Boelmann, Barbara; Raute, Anna; Schönberg, Uta - 2021

exploit the setting of the German reunification. A state socialist country, East Germany strongly encouraged mothers to … participate in the labor market full-time, whereas West Germany propagated a more traditional male breadwinner-model. After …

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Do family values shape the pace to return to work after childbirth?

Borrell-Porta, Mireia - 2015

effect of a parental leave policy reform in Germany in 2007-aimed at incentivizing an earlier return to work - on the return …

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Female labor supply and parental leave benefits : the causal effect of paying higher transfers for a shorter period of time

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009

We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects. -- Female labor supply ; fertility ; child subsidy ; parents money

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The willingness to pay for job amenities : evidence from mothers' return to work

Felfe, Christina - 2009

This study is the first to estimate mother's marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for job amenities directly. Its identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can decide whether and when to return to their guaranteed...

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Taxing the gender gap : labor market effects of a payroll tax cut for women in Italy

Rubolino, Enrico - 2022

This paper studies the labor market effects of a large employer-borne payroll tax cut for unemployed women, introduced in Italy since 2013. I combine social security data with several empirical approaches, leveraging the time-limited application of the tax scheme and discontinuities in...

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Skill premiums and the supply of young workers in Germany

Glitz, Albrecht; Wissmann, Daniel - 2017

In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We …

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Female-specific labor regulation and employment : historical evidence from the United States

Haddad, Joanne; Kattan, Lamis - 2024

By the end of the nineteenth century, labor legislation for women had become a prominent issue in the United States, with most states enacting at least one female-specific work regulation. We examine the impact of three previously unexplored legislation: seating, health and safety, and...

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What happens to the husband's retirement decision when the wife's retirement incentives change?

Selin, Håkan - 2012 - This version: 2012-03-22

Several studies have documented a strong correlation in the timing of spouses’ retirement decisions. However, considerably less is known about the causal impact of one spouse's retirement incentives on the retirement decision of the other spouse. Before, but not after, 2001 broad categories of...

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