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Females? Willingness to Work and the Discouragement Effect of a Poor Local Childcare Provision
van Ham, Maarten; Büchel, Felix - 2004
We analyze the effects of regional structures on females? willingness to work as well as on the probability that non-employed women who are willing to work actually will engage in job search. Special permission was granted to link regional data to individual respondents in the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261970
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Unwilling or Unable? Spatial, Institutional and Socio-Economic Restrictions on Females' Labor Market Access
van Ham, Maarten; Büchel, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We analyze the effects of regional structures on both females’ willingness to work and the probability of being employed for those willing to work. Special permission was granted to link regional data to individual respondents in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Results of a bivariate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700948
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Unwilling or Unable? Spatial, Institutional and Socio-Economic Restrictions on Females' Labor Market Access
van Ham, Maarten; Büchel, Felix - 2021
We analyze the effects of regional structures on both females' willingness to work and the probability of being employed for those willing to work. Special permission was granted to link regional data to individual respondents in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Results of a bivariate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319462
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Females’ Willingness to Work and the Discouragement Effect of a Poor Local Childcare Provision
van Ham, Maarten; Büchel, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We analyze the effects of regional structures on females’ willingness to work as well as on the probability that non-employed women who are willing to work actually will engage in job search. Special permission was granted to link regional data to individual respondents in the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703333
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Females' Willingness to Work and the Discouragement Effect of a Poor Local Childcare Provision
van Ham, Maarten; Büchel, Felix - 2021
We analyze the effects of regional structures on females' willingness to work as well as on the probability that non-employed women who are willing to work actually will engage in job search. Special permission was granted to link regional data to individual respondents in the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319152
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With strings attached : grandparent-provided child care and female labor market outcomes
García-Morán, Eva; Kuehn, Zoë - 2013
Grandparents are regular providers of free child care. Similar to other forms of child care, availability of grandparent-provided child care affects fertility and labor force participation of women positively. However, grandparent-provided child care requires residing close to parents or in-laws...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221554
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Labor supply and the business cycle : the "Bandwagon Worker Effect"
Román, Ángel L. Martín; Cuéllar-Martín, Jaime; … - 2018
The relationship between the labor force participation and the business cycle has become a topic in the economic literature. However, few studies have considered whether the cyclical sensitivity of the labor force participation is influenced by "social effects". In this paper, we construct a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012150172
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Children and Women's Participation Dynamics: Transitory and Long-Term Effects
Voicu, Alexandru; Buddelmeyer, Hielke - 2003
Children affect the after-birth labor force participation of women in two ways. Directly, the time spent in child-care reduces the labor market effort. The time spent out of the labor market while on maternity leave alters women's participation experience and, thus, indirectly affects subsequent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261954
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Women's Hours of Market Work in Germany : The Role of Parental Leave
Merz, Monika - 2004
former West-Germany using aggregate time-series data from the German micro census from 1957 until 2002. Aggregate weekly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262037
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Broadband internet availability and establishments' employment growth in Germany : evidence from instrumental variables estimations
Stockinger, Bastian - In: Journal for labour market research 53 (2019) 7, pp. 1-23
period is 2005–2010, when broadband was introduced in rural regions of Western Germany and in large parts of Eastern Germany … most knowledge-intensive industries. For Eastern Germany, a similar identification strategy is potentially available, but … positive employment growth effects in both sectors for Eastern Germany. Overall, the findings suggest that broadband expansion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148992