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Other refereed articles
This study investigates how the duration of maternal labor market interruptions and mothers' employment status after return relate to the division of domestic work in couples after childbirth in West Germany, East Germany, and Britain. It extends the literature by considering how these two aspects of postnatal labor market return decisions of mothers may give rise to or counteract growing gender inequality ...
In:
Community, Work & Family
16 (2013), 3, S. 307-326
| Pia S. Schober
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This study examines the importance of prenatal characteristics of men and women in couples for how they change their time spent on housework and paid work after thetransition to parenthood. We focus on both partners' earnings and gender role attitudes as explanatory factors. Previous research explored the importance of women's relative income and both partners' gender role attitudes for the extent ...
In:
European Sociological Review
29 (2013), 1, S. 74-85
| Pia S. Schober
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper empirically investigates whether globalization can improve women's rights. Using panel data from 150 countries over the 1981-2008 period, I find that social globalization positively affects women's economic and social rights. When controlling for social globalization, however, economic globalization does not have any effect on women's rights. Despite the positive effect of (social) globalization ...
In:
International Studies Quarterly
57 (2013), 4, S. 683-697
| Seo-Young Cho
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SOEPpapers 610 / 2013
Grandparents are regular providers of free child care. Similar to other forms of child care, availability of grandparent-provided child care affects fertility and labor force participation of women positively. However, grandparent-provided child care requires residing close to parents or in-laws which may imply costly spatial restrictions. We find that mothers residing close to parents or in-laws have ...
2013| Eva García-Morán, Zoë Kuehn
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DIW Discussion Papers 1297 / 2013
Negative effects of job loss on adults such as considerable fall in income have long been examined. If job loss has negative consequences for adults, it may spread to their children. But potential effects on children's non-cognitive skills and the related mechanisms have been less examined. This paper uses propensity score matching to analyze maternal involuntary job loss and its potential causal effect ...
2013| Frauke H. Peter
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DIW Discussion Papers 1300 / 2013
This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences. Fund performance is evaluated against funds' designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently with previous studies, no significant differences in performance and risk are found between female and male managed funds. However, perverse market timing manifests ...
2013| Vassilios Babalos, Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Nikolaos Philippas
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SOEPpapers 614 / 2013
This study investigates the determinants of women's labor supply in the household context. The main focus is on the effect of a change in male partner's wages on women's work hours. This is linked to the broader question of whether married and cohabiting women make different economic decisions and respond differently to changes in their partners' wages. In addition, this study seeks to connect the ...
2013| Doreen Triebe
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SOEPpapers 615 / 2013
In Germany, formal child care coverage rates have increased markedly over the past few decades. The expansion in coverage is particularly pronounced for under 3 year-olds. The present paper is concerned with how mothers' mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not. Furthermore, the effects of formal child care usage on mother-child interaction ...
2013| Alexandra Kröll, Rainald Borck
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SOEPpapers 625 / 2013
Increasing maternal employment rates engage policies and people for decades. It is pushed but also questioned at the same time depending on whether women are regarded in first line as mothers or workers. In Germany, the male breadwinner model is traditionally favored. The parent's money reform of 2007 is regarded as a first step towards the dual earner - dual carer model by some scholars. Compared ...
2013| Susanne Schmidt
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Externe Working Papers
While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting couples men's net worth, on average, is 33,000 euros higher than women's. We look at five different sets of factors ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2013,
26 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 7637)
| Markus M. Grabka, Jan Marcus, Eva Sierminska