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Helping with the Kids? How Family-Friendly Workplaces Affect Parental Well-Being and Behavior

Despite political efforts, balancing work and family life is still challenging. This paper provides novel evidence on the effect of firm level interventions that seek to reduce the work-life conflict. The focus is on how a specific workplace policy, namely childcare support, affects the well-being, working time, and caring behavior of mothers with young children. We exploit the fact that since the ...

Wie beeinflusst der Besuch einer Kindertageseinrichtung nicht-kognitive Fähigkeiten?

Kindertageseinrichtungen sollen als Ort der frühkindlichen Bildung die Entwicklung und Fähigkeiten von Kindern fördern. Die frühe Bildung ist besonders wichtig, da sich viele Fähigkeiten früh im Lebensverlauf herausbilden. Außerdem erleichtern früh erworbene Fähigkeiten den weiteren Erwerb von Fähigkeiten und beeinflussen somit die gesamte Bildungsbiografie. Die ökonomische Forschung unterscheidet ...

Between Life Cycle Model, Labor Market Integration and Discrimination: An Econometric Analysis of the Determinants of Return Migration

This paper studies the determinants of return migration by applying the Cox hazard model to longitudinal micro data from 1996 to 2012, including immigrants of a wide range of nationalities. The empirical results reveal the validity of the life cycle model of Migration Economics and a strong return probability decreasing effect of labor market integration and societal integration. Modeling non-proportional ...

Early Childhood Environment, Breastfeeding and the Formation of Preferences

This study provides insights on the role of early childhood family environment within the process of preference formation. We start by presenting evidence showing that breastfeeding duration is a valid measure of the quality of early childhood environment. In the main analysis, we then investigate how early childhood environment affects the formation of fundamental economic preferences such as time, ...

Tracking and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Proponents of tracking argue that the creation of more homogeneous classes increases effciency while opponents point out that tracking aggravates initial differences between students. We estimate the effects on the intergenerational transmission of education of a reform that delayed tracking by two years in one of Germany's federal states. While the reform had no effect on educational outcomes on average, ...

Subjective Completion Beliefs and the Demand for Post-Secondary Education

The outcome of pursuing an upper or post-secondary education degree is uncertain. A student might not complete a chosen degree for a number of reasons, such as insufficient academic preparation or financial constraints. Thus, when considering whether to invest in post-secondary education, students must factor their probability of completing the degree into their decision. We study the role of this ...

Einseitig alternativ? Zur Frage des Alternativen im Geld- und Finanzsystem

Konsum- und Geschäftsmodelle können nur bedingt als alternativ gelten, so lange sie über das bestehende Geld- und Finanzsystem abgewickelt werden. Denn dieses steht schon in den beiden grundlegendsten (Deduktions-)Dimensionen – Raum und Zeit – für das Große und Schnelle und somit für das Gegenteil dessen, was Alternativ gemeinhin definiert. Um dies darzulegen, wird eingangs ein stufenweiser Entkoppelungs- ...

Gute Gründe für gute Kitas! Wer nutzt welche Qualität von Kindertageseinrichtungen und was bedeutet sie für die Vereinbarkeit von Familien- und Erwerbsarbeit?

On the Interpretation of Non-cognitive Skills: What Is Being Measured and Why It Matters

Across academic sub-fields such as labor, education, and behavioral economics, the measurement and interpretation of non-cognitive skills varies widely. As a result, it is difficult to compare results on the importance of non-cognitive skills across literatures. Drawing from these literatures, this paper systematically relates various prototypical non-cognitive measures within one data set. Specifically, ...

Worker Personality: Another Skill Bias beyond Education in the Digital Age

We present empirical evidence suggesting that technological progress in the digital age will be biased not only with respect to skills acquired through education but also with respect to noncognitive skills (personality). We measure the direction of technological change by estimated future digitalization probabilities of occupations, and noncognitive skills by the Big Five personality traits from several ...