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Taxing childcare: Effects on family labor supply and children
Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - 2012
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286908
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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children
Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129014
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Fixed-term employment and fertility: Evidence from German micro data
Auer, Wolfgang; Danzer, Natalia - 2014
We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility … well as fertility behaviour. Our main results are: Women (i) tend to postpone their first birth due to fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464370
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Fixed-Term Employment and Fertility: Evidence from German Micro Data
Auer, Wolfgang; Danzer, Natalia - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility … well as fertility behaviour. Our main results are: Women (i) tend to postpone their first birth due to fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185786
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The effect of education on fertility: Evidence from a compulsory schooling reform
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Maeder, Miriam - 2012
This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit … countries, we find that increased education causally reduces completed fertility. This negative effect operates through a … exogenous variation from a German compulsory schooling reform to deal with the endogeneity of education. By using data from two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290958
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The Effect of Education on Fertility: Evidence from a Compulsory Schooling Reform
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Maeder, Miriam - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit … countries, we find that increased education causally reduces completed fertility. This negative effect operates through a … exogenous variation from a German compulsory schooling reform to deal with the endogeneity of education. By using data from two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818241
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Optimal social assistance and unemployment insurance in a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2015
We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516281
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Optimal Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015
We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277341
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Moving to an earnings-related parental leave system: Do heterogeneous effects on parents make some children worse off?
Huber, Katrin - 2015
Can moving to an earnings-related parental leave system influence children's wellbeing and are heterogeneous effects on parents carried over to the entire family, making special groups of children worse off than others? To answer this question, this study exploits a large and unanticipated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011341076
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Change in the gender division of domestic work after mummy or daddy took leave: An examination of alternative explanations
Schober, Pia S.; Zoch, Gundula - 2015
This study investigates how the duration of child care leave taken by mothers and fathers relates to changes in couples' division of housework and child care after postnatal labour market return in Germany. It explores whether take-up of child care related leave may impact the gender division of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439784