This study investigates how the duration of the work interruption and the labor market status of mothers upon their return affect the division of housework in couples after a birth. By observing several parental leave policy reforms in Britain and West-Germany, this research also explores how extended leave entitlements for mothers influence the division of housework. The analysis uses multilevel multiprocess ...
In the early half of the twentieth century in West Germany the male breadwinner model was dominant with men playing the provider role and women staying at home and taking care of children. The employment of mothers was not a common practice, so that they only worked due to the financial situation of the family or at least justified their labor market activity that way. The present paper deals with ...
In der letzten Dekade haben die Bruttostundenlöhne lediglich stagniert. Betroffen waren nicht nur einzelne Gruppen von Arbeitnehmern, vielmehr war die Lohnentwicklung übergreifend schwach. Das gilt sowohl hinsichtlich der Entgelte für Männer als auch der für Frauen, für Vollzeit- wie für Teilzeitbeschäftigte, und sowohl für einfache Arbeit als auch für Tätigkeiten, für deren Ausübung ein Studium erforderlich ...
Der Gründungszuschuss ist eines der erfolgreichsten Instrumente der Bundesagentur für Arbeit. Er unterstützt auf effektive Weise Gründer aus Arbeitslosigkeit auf ihrem Weg in die Selbständigkeit. Weil zu viel Mitnahme und zu wenige nachhaltige Gründungen befürchtet werden, soll nun zur Effizienzerhöhung der Rechtsanspruch auf diesen Zuschuss in eine Ermessensleistung umgewandelt, das Budget um 74 Prozent ...
The prominence of part-time employment has dramatically increased both in Germany and across Europe. Germany has experienced above- average growth and currently the prevalence of part-time employment there also exceeds the EU average. Evidently, this involves fundamental structural change as part-time employment has increased regardless of economic trends. Although part-time positions often still entail ...
This study investigates whether the willingness to take income risks revealed by occupational choice is transmitted from parents to their children. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find that fathers' riskiness of job is a significant determinant of children's occupational risk, in particular sons' (excluding parent-child pairs with identical occupations). This is the first ...
Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdepend-ent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and income, which in particular restricts social participation. The interdependency of the multiple poverty dimensions under a strong (union approach) and weak focus ...
