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Demographic change and the European income distribution

Dolls, Mathias; Doorley, Karina; Paulus, Alari; … - 2018

This paper assesses the effect of key demographic changes (population ageing and upskilling) that are expected by 2030 on the income distribution in the EU-27 and examines the potential of tax-benefit systems to counterbalance negative developments. Theory predicts that population ageing should...

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Demographic change and the European income distribution

Dolls, Mathias; Doorley, Karina; Paulus, Alari; … - 2018

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Parental investments in early life and child outcomes : evidence from Swedish parental leave rules

Ginja, Rita; Jans, Jenny; Karimi, Arizo - 2017

How do parental resources early in life affect children's health and schooling outcomes? We address this question by exploiting the so-called speed premium (SP) in the Swedish parental leave (PL) system. The SP grants mothers higher PL benefits for the subsequent child without the need to...

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Parental leave and mothers' careers : the relative importance of job protection and cash benefits

Lalive, Rafael; Schlosser, Analia; Steinhauer, Andreas; … - 2011

Parental leave regulations in most OECD countries have two key policy instruments: job protection and cash benefits. This paper studies how mothers return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of these key policy parameters. Exploiting a series of major...

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Shared parenting and parents' income evolution after separation - new explorative insights from Germany

Boll, Christina; Schüller, Simone - 2021

true for mothers in the medium-term, but their earnings barely improve during that time. Mothers stay highly involved in …

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Sibling gender composition and women's wages

Cools, Angela; Patacchini, Eleonora - 2017

We examine the impact of sibling gender composition on women's adult earnings. Using data from Add Health, we find that … effect is primarily due to lower earnings within broadly defined education and occupation groups. We then explore mechanisms …

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The gender pay gap at the early stages of academic careers

Magda, Iga; Bieliński, Jacek; Feldy, Marzena; … - 2024

The number of countries that have devoted time and attention to establishing gender equality regulations in academia is increasing. However, various studies indicate that women remain underrepresented among tenured faculty and in senior positions, and that female academic staff earn less than...

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Alternatives to paying child benefit to the rich : means testing or higher tax?

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray; Thoresen, Thor Olav; Vattø, … - 2020

Transferring public benefits to people in no need of them appears to be a waste of public money. Thus, there seems to be support for a move away from universal child benefits and towards means testing. This study presents a critique of this overly-simplistic view and proposes a very simple...

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The gender gap in time allocation in Europe

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2020

, and child care is offered, and explanations based on education, earnings, and household structure are presented, using …

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The role of hours changes for the increase in German earnings inequality

Biewen, Martin; Plötze, Daniela - 2018

Using data from the German Structure of Earnings Survey (GSES), this paper studies the role of changes in working hours … for the increase in male and female earnings inequality between 2001 and 2010. We provide both classic decompositions of … the variance of log earnings into the variances of hours, wage rates and their covariance, and decompositions based on …

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