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Diskussionspapiere 1603 / 2016
Since the millennium, the labor market participation of women and mothers is increasing across European countries. Several work/care policy measures underlie this evolution. At the same time, the labor market behavior of men and fathers, as well as their involvement in care work, is relatively unchanging, meaning that employed mothers are facing an increased burden with respect to gainful employment ...
2016| Kai-Uwe Müller, Michael Neumann, Katharina Wrohlich
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Diskussionspapiere 1600 / 2016
This paper analyzes to what extent parental leave decisions of mothers with young children depend on the decisions made by their coworkers. The identification of peer effects, which are defined as indirect effects of the behavior of a social reference group on individual outcomes, bears various challenges due to correlated characteristics within social groups and endogenous group membership. We overcome ...
2016| Clara Welteke, Katharina Wrohlich
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Diskussionspapiere 1597 / 2016
Die Debatte um Arbeitszeiten und deren Regulierung wird in der deutschen Öffentlichkeiterneut geführt. Empirische Grundlage sind dabei häufig Studien auf Basis des Mikrozensusoder des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP), die teilweise erhebliche Unterschiede in ihrenErgebnissen aufweisen (Rengers 2015, Holst/Wieber 2014). In dem vorliegenden Beitragwird den Ursachen für diese Unterschiede nachgegangen. ...
2016| Elke Holst, Julia Bringmann
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Diskussionspapiere 1593 / 2016
We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to investigate intra-couple labor supply decisions and the division of housework under individual and joint income taxation systems. In order to eliminate problems of endogenous intra-couple time use decisions, we exogenously varied not only the taxation system but also the intra-couple roles of primary and secondary earners. Using work effort as a proxy for labor ...
2016| Melanie Schröder, Norma Burow
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Diskussionspapiere 1517 / 2015
This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) we also find that the distribution of the share of income ...
2015| Anna Wieber, Elke Holst
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Diskussionspapiere 1396 / 2014
We apply a structural model of mothers’ labor supply and child care choices to evaluate the effects of two childcare reforms in Germany that were introduced simultaneously in August 2013. First, a legal claim to subsidized child care became effective for all children aged one year or older. Second, a new benefit called ‘Betreuungsgeld’ came into effect that is granted to families who do not use public ...
2014| Kai-Uwe Müller, Katharina Wrohlich
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Diskussionspapiere 1366 / 2014
Parental leave and subsidized child care are prominent examples of family policies supporting the reconciliation of family life and labor market careers for mothers. In this paper, we combine different empirical strategies to evaluate the employment effects of these policies for mothers in Germany. In particular we estimate a structural labor supply model and exploit a natural experiment, i.e. the ...
2014| Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Katharina Wrohlich
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DIW Roundup 106 / 2017
Wie viel Zeit Menschen in ihre Erwerbsarbeit investieren wollen, können und müssen ist nicht nur für den Einzelnen, sondern auch für eine Ökonomie als Ganzes von zentraler Bedeutung. Doch je nach Studie und zugrundeliegendem Datensatz ergibt sich ein heterogenes Bild zur Über- und Unterbeschäftigung in Deutschland. Diesem Phänomen und seinen Ursachen geht der nachfolgende Bericht nach.
2017| Elke Holst, Julia Bringmann
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DIW Roundup 21 / 2014
Über die Differenzierung von Sozialversicherungsbeiträgen in Arbeitgeber- und Arbeitnehmerbeiträge gibt es in Deutschland immer wieder Diskussionen, welche in den letzten Jahren sogar zu einer Aufweichung des Prinzips einer paritätischen Aufteilung geführt haben. Den meisten ökonomischen Theorien zufolge sollte diese formelle Aufteilung der Beitragslast allerdings keine Rolle spielen. Empirische Studien ...
2014| Hermann Buslei, Katharina Wrohlich
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SOEPpapers 1070 / 2020
Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one observed in the data, which is mainly due to large positive selection of women into full-time employment. ...
2020| Patricia Gallego Granados, Katharina Wrohlich