Die Erwerbsverläufe von Frauen sind in Deutschland weiter stark durch familiäre Unterbrechungen geprägt. Der vorliegende Beitrag betrachtet zwei Aspekte des mütterlichen Erwerbsverlaufs nach der Geburt des ersten Kindes: die Dauer bis zur Rückkehr in den Arbeitsmarkt und berufliche Wechsel, und zwar in Abhängigkeit vom vor der Geburt ausgeübten Beruf. Auf Basis der neoklassischen Theorie des Arbeitsangebots ...
For efficiency reasons, the policy-mix of publicly financed educational measures should be adapted to novel insights into their private and social returns. Early childhood interventions are targeted to children in socially disadvantaged environments, beginning as soon as possible, ideally before birth. The developing theory of skill formation predicts high social returns for this kind of human capital ...
In this article we present estimates of the tempo-adjusted total fertility rate in Western and Eastern Germany from 1955 to 2008. Tempo adjustment of the total fertility rate (TFR) requires data on the annual number of births by parity and age of the mother. Since official statistics do not provide such data for West Germany as well as Eastern Germany from 1990 on we used alternative data sources which ...