Sind in einem Land viele Frauen erwerbstätig, ist der Gender Pay Gap tendenziell höher – Lohnlücke in Deutschland aber auch bei Berücksichtigung dieses Zusammenhangs mit am größten in Europa – Vor allem nordeuropäische Länder zeigen, dass es auch anders geht Der Gender Pay Gap ist in Deutschland auch dann einer der höchsten in Europa, wenn ...
This paper examines how culture determines within-couple gender inequality. Exploiting the setting of Germany's division and reunification, I compare child penalties of couples socialised in a more gender-egalitarian culture to those in a gender-traditional culture. The long-run penalty on the female income share is 30.9% in West German couples, compared to 18.3% in East German...
For the design of pension reform it is crucial to disentangle the employment effects related to the substitution and the income effect. In this paper we provide causal evidence about the importance of the income effect which in general has been assumed to be small or non-existent. We exploit a pension reform in Germany that raised pension benefits related to children. For...
This paper estimates a structural dynamic discrete choice model on parental care provision, retirement and labor supply. We want to estimate the dynamic consequences of providing informal care or organizing formal care for care dependent parents. While there might be negative long term consequences on wages and retirement benefits, agents might respond to incentives in the long term care...