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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Der Gender Pay Gap, also die Verdienstlücke zwischen Frauen und Männern, beträgt in Deutschland nach wie vor 18 Prozent. Dieser Durchschnittswert ist allerdings nicht für alle Beschäftigten gleich. Große Unterschiede finden sich insbesondere nach dem Alter: Ab einem Alter von 30 Jahren steigt der Gender Pay Gap stark an und bleibt bis zum Ende des Erwerbslebens mit über 20 Prozent konstant hoch. Damit ...