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How important is precautionary labor supply?

Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Schmitz, Sebastian - 2016 - This version: June 3, 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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Work hour mismatch and job mobility : adjustment channels and resolution rates

Knaus, Michael C.; Otterbach, Steffen - 2016

This paper analyses the role of job changes in overcoming work hour constraints and the work hour mismatches resulting from these constraints (i.e., differences between actual and desired work hours). Building on previous findings that job change increases the flexibility of actual work hours,...

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Gender identity and womens' supply of labor and non-market work : panel data evidence for Germany

Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2015

Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to … labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply … a higher income than their husbands, we find for Germany that women only barely reduce their weekly hours of non …

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Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017

program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that had paid benefits for up to two years was …

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The impact of child and maternal health indicators on female labor force participation after childbirth : evidence from Germany

Dunkelberg, Annalena; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2007

participation after childbirth in Germany. Our analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, which enables …. Since the majority of women in Germany do not go back to work within a year after childbirth, we also investigate their …

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Labour supply and commuting

Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva; Ommeren, Jos van - 2009

issues empirically using the socio-economic panel data for Germany between 1997 and 2007. Endogeneity of commuting distance …

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The effects of expanding the generosity of the statutory sickness insurance system

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Karlsson, Martin - 2009

In 1999, in Germany, the statutory sick pay level was increased from 80 to 100 percent of foregone earnings for …

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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 mothers' 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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Locus of control and mothers' return to employment

Berger, Eva M.; Haywood, Luke - 2016

This paper investigates the effect of locus of control (LOC) on the length of mothers’ employment break after childbirth. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), duration data reveals that women with an internal LOC return to employment more quickly than women with an...

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Beyond inequality accounting : marital sorting and couple labor supply

Pestel, Nico - 2014

This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...

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