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Employment among mothers has been rising in recent decades, although mothers of young children often work fewer hours than other women do. Parallel to this trend, approval of maternal employment has increased, albeit not evenly across groups. However, differences in attitudes remain unexplored despite their importance for better understanding mothers’ labour market behaviour. Meanwhile, the employment ...
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Comparative Population Studies
48 (2023), S. 339-368
| Ludovica Gambaro, C. Katharina Spiess, Katharina Wrohlich, Elena Ziege
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Bosch-Domènech et al. (2014) reported a negative association between 2D:4D, a suggested marker of prenatal testosterone exposure, and the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) in a sample of 623 university students. In this pre-registered study, we test if we can replicate their findings in a general population sample of over 2,500 individuals from Germany. We find no statistically significant association ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
209 (2023), S. 288-307
| Levent Neyse, Frank M. Fossen, Magnus Johannesson, Anna Dreber
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In this paper, we use unique health record data that cover outpatient care and the associated costs to quantify the health care costs of a sizable increase in the retirement age in Germany. For the identification, we exploit a sizable cohort-specific pension reform which abolished an early retirement program for all women born after 1951. Our results show that health care costs significantly increase ...
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The European Journal of Health Economics
24 (2023), S. 1101–1120
| Johannes Geyer, Mara Barschkett, Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid
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This paper examines how households adjust their savings and consumption expenditure in response to an anticipated increase in the early retirement age (ERA). We examine the 1999 pension reform in Germany, which increased the ERA for women born after 1951 by at least three years. First, we present suggestive evidence that women update their retirement planning in response to the reform. Using the German ...
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Journal of Public Economics
221 (2023), 104845, 17 S.
| Stefan Etgeton, Björn Fischer, Han Ye
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I quantify the perceived changes in hourly wage rates associated with working different hours on the same job for a representative sample of female workers. While part-time working women expect significant hourly wage gains from switching to full-time work - 7% on average - full-time workers expect no effect on current wages when switching to part-time, on average. Perceived pecuniary losses from part-time ...
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Labour Economics
80 (2023), 102291, 14 S.
| Annekatrin Schrenker
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Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women’s employment rates but to decrease their wages in case of extended leave duration. In view of these potential trade-offs, many countries are discussing the optimal design of parental leave policies. We analyze the impact of a major parental leave reform on mothers’ long-term earnings. The 2007 German parental leave reform replaced a means-tested ...
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Labour Economics
80 (2023), 102296, 13 S.
| Corinna Frodermann, Katharina Wrohlich, Aline Zucco
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The COVID-19 pandemic and related closures of day care centres and schools significantly increased the amount of care work done by parents. There has been much speculation over whether the pandemic increased or decreased gender equality in parental care work. Based on representative data for Germany from spring 2020 and winter 2021 we present an empirical analysis that shows that although gender inequality ...
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German Economic Review
23 (2022), 4, S. 641–667
| Jonas Jessen, C. Katharina Spiess, Sevrin Waights, Katharina Wrohlich
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A considerable share of low-skilled workers in Germany perform speciali-zed activities for which some kind of formal vocational qualification is required.This article examines the role of non-formal in-company training for the careeradvancement of low-skilled workers in the internal labor market. The focus is onthe role of regulating structures. Based on the human capital and filter theory aswell as ...
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Soziale Welt
73 (2022), 2, S. 309-352
| Philip Wotschack, Claire Samtleben
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This paper shows that labor demand plays an important role in the labor market reactions to a pension reform in Germany. Employers with a high share of older worker inflow compared with their younger worker inflow, employers in sectors with few investments in research and development, and employers in sectors with a high share of collective bargaining agreements allow their employees to stay employed ...
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Industrial Relations
61 (2022), 2, S. 152-192
| Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Svenja Lorenz, Thomas Zwick, Mona Bruns
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In this paper we estimate the effect of unemployment on informal care provision. For the identification we use plant closures as a source of exogenous variation and combine difference-in-differences with matching based on entropy balancing. The analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We find that there is a time conflict between employment and informal care provision. ...
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The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
23 (2022), 100395, 14 S.
| Björn Fischer, Peter Haan, Santiago Salazar Sanchez