In:
Richard Hauser, Irene Becker (Hrsg.) ,
Reporting on Income Distribution and Poverty
Berlin [u.a.] : Springer
S. 55-90
| Irene Becker, Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka, Peter Krause, Gert G. Wagner
In general, day care subsidies are accepted as a means of creating equal chances for both children and mothers in the labour market. Although there is a broad consensus that the use of children's day care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done. Moreover, there is little knowledge on the distributional effects of day care subsidies. In order to assess whether ...
In:
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal
11 (2003), 2, S. 159-175
| C. Katharina Spieß, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Gert G. Wagner
This study examines income mobility amongst older people in Great Britain and Germany after retirement. The motivation is that older people may be subject to greater income risks in today's environment of early exits from the labour force, rising longevity and increasing reliance on private pension income. Our results provide evidence that income mobility amongst older people is more pronounced in ...
In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch
123 (2003), 1, S. 163-176
| Asghar Zaidi, Joachim R. Frick, Felix Büchel
In 1986 German parental leave and benefit policy was expanded by extending the potential duration of leave from six to ten months and paying maternity benefits to all new mothers. The potential duration has increased four times since 1986 and stood at three years in 1992. This study uses differenced log-wage regressions to examine the effect of taking maternity leave on wage growth for two 5-year periods, ...
In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch
123 (2003), 1, S. 125-138
| Jan Ondrich, C. Katharina Spieß, Qing Yang