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DIW aktuell ; 42 / 2020
Die Corona-Pandemie löst eine verheerende Wirtschaftskrise aus, die auch am deutschen Arbeitsmarkt gravierende Spuren in Form von Kurzarbeit und Arbeitslosigkeit hinterlässt. Im Gegensatz zur Finanzkrise 2008/2009, in der Männer stärker vom Beschäftigungsrückgang betroffen waren, trifft es in der aktuellen Krise Wirtschaftssektoren wie das Gastgewerbe, in denen Frauen stärker repräsentiert sind. Außerdem ...
2020| Anna Hammerschmid, Julia Schmieder, Katharina Wrohlich
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DIW aktuell ; 28 / 2020
In Zeiten der Corona-Krise zeigt sich: Bestimmte Berufsgruppen und Bereiche des öffentlichen und sozialen Lebens sind systemrelevant. Dazu zählen beispielsweise das Gesundheitswesen, die innere Sicherheit, die Grund- und Lebensmittelversorgung, Kindernotbetreuung oder der Erhalt der Verkehrs- und IT-Infrastruktur. Die große Mehrheit der als systemrelevant definierten Berufe weist jedoch außerhalb von ...
2020| Josefine Koebe, Claire Samtleben, Annekatrin Schrenker, Aline Zucco
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Diskussionspapiere 2104 / 2024
This study examines how student aid eligibility influences application decisions to higher education using administrative data from France. We study the impact of a change in income thresholds for aid eligibility. We find that aid eligibility did not have a uniform effect on students’ applications but varied by gender and academic performance. Highperforming male students shifted their First-Ranked ...
2024| Camille Remigereau, Clara Schäper
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Diskussionspapiere 2101 / 2024
Promoting fathers to take parental leave is seen as a promising way to advancegender equality. However, there is still a very limited understanding of its impact on fathers’ labor market outcomes. We conducted a correspondence study to analyze whether fathers who take parental leave face discrimination during the hiring process in three different occupations. Fathers who took parental leave in a female-dominated ...
2024| Julia Schmieder, Doris Weichselbaumer, Clara Welteke, Katharina Wrohlich
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Diskussionspapiere 2099 / 2024
Child penalties in labour market outcomes are well-documented: after childbirth, mothers’ employment and earnings drop persistently compared to fathers. Beyond gender norms, a potential driver could be the loss in labour market skills due to mothers’ longer employment interruptions. This paper estimates child penalties in adult cognitive skills by adapting the pseudo-panel approach to a single cross-section ...
2024| Jonas Jessen, Lavinia Kinne, Michele Battisti
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Diskussionspapiere 2076 / 2024
We contribute to the research on gender representation in economics by documenting the share of women among economists in a variety of leadership positions in the academic, but also in the private and public sectors, both globally and by region. For the years 2019 to 2023, we find women economists’ representation overall to be low in all sectors and no clear-cut trends over time. In academia, we find ...
2024| Jana Schuetz, Virginia Sondergeld, Insa Weilage
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Diskussionspapiere 2046 / 2023
We analyze the impact of women’s managerial representation on the gender pay gap among employees on the establishment level using German Linked-Employer-Employee- Data from the years 2004 to 2018. For identification of a causal effect we employ a panel model with establishment fixed effects and industry-specific time dummies. Our results show that a higher share of women in management significantly ...
2023| Virginia Sondergeld, Katharina Wrohlich
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Diskussionspapiere 1902 / 2020
We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children’s labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated families. Empirical results based on Austrian administrative data show a significant negative impact on labor market activities of children. This effect is more pronounced ...
2020| Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Jörg Paetzold, Julia Schmieder
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Diskussionspapiere 1882 / 2020
Based on findings from high-income countries, typically economists hypothesize that having more children unambiguously decreases the time mothers spend in the labor mar- ket. Few studies on lower-income countries, in which low household wealth, informal child care, and informal employment opportunities prevail, find mixed results. Using Mexican census data, I find a positive effect of an instrument-induced ...
2020| Julia Schmieder
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Diskussionspapiere 1847 / 2020
Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women's employment rates but decrease their wages in case of extended leave durations. 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 ...
2020| Corinna Frodermann, Katharina Wrohlich, Aline Zucco