This paper aims to estimate the effects of a reduction in the size of parental benefits in the second year after birth on maternal labour supply. I exploit exogeneous variation in the size of benefits that occurred due to reforms of the parental benefit system on the national and federal state level in Germany. The reforms led to reductions in the size of benefits depending on the household type and ...
Theorists have long maintained that people react to major life events but then return to a set-point of subjective well-being. Although evidence now indicates substantial inter-individual variability in these reactions, prior research has been limited by its use of average trajectories. In this study, we used latent growth mixture modeling to identify specific patterns of individual variation in response ...
Cross-national studies of the impact of welfare states on gender inequality tend to overlook socioeconomic divisions among women. This paper challenges the implicit assumption that welfare states have uniform effects on the labour market attainments of all women, arguing that the impact of state intervention is necessarily conditioned by women’s relative advantage or disadvantage in the labour market. ...