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SOEPpapers 905 / 2017
This paper evaluates the impact of a massive expansion of after-school programs (ASPs) on the labor market participation of mothers with primary school children in the West German context of relatively low full-time employment rates. Using an instrumental variables approach we exploit regional and temporal variation in the provision of federal ASP starting grants by a nationwide investment program. ...
2017| Fabian Dehos, Marie Paul
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DIW Discussion Papers 1657 / 2017
Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers’ quota in parental leave schemes. In this paper, we analyze whether the introduction of the fathers’ quota in Germany in 2007, that caused a sharp increase in the take-up of ...
2017| Ulrike Unterhofer, Katharina Wrohlich
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DIW Wochenbericht 12 / 2017
Die geschlechtsspezifischen Unterschiede im Rentenzahlbetrag der Gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung werden sich im Kohortenvergleich verringern. Während in der Kriegskohorte der 1936 bis 1945 Geborenen der so genannte Gender-Pension-Gap noch 56 Prozent in West- und 34 Prozent in Ostdeutschland beträgt, wird er sich basierend auf einem vom DIW Berlin entwickelten Fortschreibungsmodell zur Simulation von ...
2017| Christian Westermeier, Markus M. Grabka, Björn Jotzo, Anika Rasner
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DIW Discussion Papers 1658 / 2017
Changing employment conditions lead to new chances, but also new risks for employees. In the literature, increasing permeability between occupational and private life is discussed as one special outcome of this development that employees must face, especially those in highly qualified positions. Drawing on existing research, we investigate in how far women and men in those positions differ in their ...
2017| Anne Busch-Heizmann, Elke Holst
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DIW Discussion Papers 1662 / 2017
This paper addresses the behavioral puzzle of women’s preference for competition when competitors are also women. Using a framed field experiment with 883 non-standard subjects, we show that none of the determinants of competitive behavior in general, including ability, self-confidence and risk aversion, provide a satisfying explanation for women’s substantive gender-related selection into competition. ...
2017| Norma Burow, Miriam Beblo, Denis Beninger, Melanie Schröder
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SOEPpapers 904 / 2017
Changing employment conditions lead to new chances, but also new risks for employees. In the literature, increasing permeability between occupational and private life is discussed as one special outcome of this development that employees must face, especially those in highly qualified positions. Drawing on existing research, we investigate in how far women and men in those positions differ in their ...
2017| Anne Busch-Heizmann, Elke Holst
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SOEPpapers 900 / 2017
We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that had paid benefits for up to two years was replaced by an earnings related transfer which paid benefits for up to one year. The reform generated winners and losers with heterogeneous response incentives. We ...
2017| Annette Bergemann, Regina T. Riphahn
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
We report on two experiments investigating whether there is a gender difference in the willingness to compete against oneself (self-competition), similar to what is found when competing against others (other-competition). In one laboratory and one online market experiment, involving a total of 1,200 participants, we replicate the gender-gap in willingness to other-compete but find no evidence of a ...
In:
The American Economic Review
107 (2017), 5. S. 136-140
| Coren L. Apicella, Elif E. Demiral, Johanna Mollerstrom
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
This study investigates how the availability and expansion of childcare services for children aged under 3 years relate to the subjective wellbeing of German mothers and fathers. It extends previous studies by examining in more detail the relationship between day-care availability and use, maternal employment and parental subjective wellbeing during early childhood in a country with expanding childcare ...
In:
Journal of European Social Policy
27 (2017), 5, S. 433-446
| Pia S. Schober, Christian Schmitt
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DIW Wochenbericht 5 / 2017
Die geschlechtsspezifischen Unterschiede in der Höhe der Renten lagen im Jahr 2014 bei 42 Prozent in Westdeutschland und 23 Prozent in Ostdeutschland. Im vorliegenden Bericht wird dieser sogenannte Gender Pension Gap für vier Geburtskohorten bestimmt und seine zukünftige Entwicklung simuliert. Demnach wird der Gender Pension Gap für die jüngste Kohorte dieser Untersuchung – verglichen mit der ältesten ...
2017| Markus M. Grabka, Björn Jotzo, Anika Rasner, Christian Westermeier