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positive effect on maternal employment and labor income, but did not change part-time status significantly. …
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This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit … tax rate of employment. We use a difference-in-differences estimator based on administrative data from the German pension … insurance and find that, on average, the negative employment effect of pension wealth is significant and economically important …
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This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit … tax rate of employment. We use a difference-in-differences estimator based on administrative data from the German pension … insurance and find that, on average, the negative employment effect of pension wealth is significant and economically important …
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We show that the widespread approach to estimate the career costs of motherhood – so called “child penalties” – is prone to produce biased results, as it pools first-time mothers of all ages without accounting for their differences in characteristics and outcomes. We propose a novel...
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How does a negative labor demand shock impact fertility? I analyze this question in the context of the East German … fertility decline after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. I exploit differential pressure for restructuring across East …. Thus, the demand shock did not only depress the aggregate fertility level but also changed the composition of mothers. My …
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downgraded employment, and of children to drop-out from education. While effects are stronger among vulnerable households …
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We study the effect of childcare availability on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening od childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare facilities in the year of birth of the first child...
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Fluctuations in the labour force participation rate in the short to medium run are an important determinant of the cyclical behaviour of the unemployment rate, and hence wage pressures in the economy. This paper takes a closer look at the cyclical behaviour of labour force participation in the...
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