Long periods of part-time work lead to a stagnation of wage growth. In this paper, I study how the wage stagnation decomposes in lack of career development and the lack of wage growth conditional on the career level. I develop a dynamic choice model of labor supply which distinctly incorporates vertical career moves to jobs paying higher wages as a function of the choice of hours of work. I...
Das Interview erschien beim Spiegel. Corona hat für viele Menschen den Arbeitsalltag verändert. Verbessert hat sich für Frauen aber wenig. Arbeitsmarktexpertin Katharina Wrohlich sagt, woran das liegt – und warum Chefs zu Frauen unfairer sind. SPIEGEL: Frau Wrohlich, hat die Pandemie Frauen im Kampf um Gleichberechtigung zurückgeworfen? Wrohlich: Das war am Anfang die Befürchtung. Gleichzeitig ...
Die Lohnlücke zwischen Frauen und Männern, der sogenannte Gender Pay Gap, ist in Deutschland mit derzeit rund 18 Prozent nach wie vor beträchtlich. Dieser Bericht geht auf Basis von Daten des Berliner-Studienberechtigten-Panels (Best Up) der Frage nach, welche Rolle die Einkommenserwartungen junger Menschen für spätere Verdienstunterschiede spielen. Bereits kurz nach dem (Fach-)Abitur erwarten Frauen ...
Social norms are put forward as a prominent explanation for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This paper studies the intergenerational transmission of these norms, examining how they affect subsequent female labour supply decisions, taking into account not only the early socialization of women but also that of their partner. Using large representative panel data sets from West Germany, ...
This paper examines how culture impacts within-couple gender inequality. Exploiting thesetting of Germany’s division and reunification, I compare child penalties of East Germans whowere socialised in a more gender egalitarian culture to West Germans socialised in a gendertraditionalculture. Using a household panel, I show that the long-run child penalty on thefemale income share is 23.9 percentage ...
I use the universe of tax returns in Germany and a regression kink design to estimate the impact of the benefit amount available to high-earning women after their first childbirth on subsequent within-couple earnings inequality. Lower benefit amounts result in a reduced earnings gap that persists beyond the benefit period for at least nine years after the birth. The longer-term impacts are driven by ...
The COVID-19 pandemic and related closures of day care centres and schools significantly increased the amount of care work done by parents. There has been much speculation over whether the pandemic increased or decreased gender equality in parental care work. Based on representative data for Germany from spring 2020 and winter 2021 we present an empirical analysis that shows that although gender inequality ...