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  • SOEPpapers 315 / 2010

    The Introduction of a Short-Term Earnings-Related Parental Leave Benefit System and Differential Employment Effects

    German family policy underwent a reform in 2007, when the new instrument of "Elterngeld" replaced the previous "Erziehungsgeld". The transfer programs differ in various dimensions. We study the effects on the labor supply of young mothers, by comparing behavior before and after the reform. We separately consider women of high and low incomes, which were treated differently under the old "Erziehungsgeld"-regime, ...

    2010| Annette Bergemann, Regina T. Riphahn
  • Weekly Report 29 / 2010

    Do Internet Credit Markets Improve Access to Credit for Female Business Owners?

    Business owners and founders are a minority of any bank's business clients. Scientific studies of traditional credit markets often show a lower probability of loan approval or higher loan costs for female business owners compared to male business owners. With this background the question arises whether female business owners have to struggle with this problem less on Internet credit markets. In this ...

    2010| Nataliya Barasinska, Dorothea Schäfer
  • Diskussionspapiere 1042 / 2010

    Job Flows, Demographics and the Great Recession

    The recession the United States economy entered in December of 2007 is considered to be the most severe downturn the country has experienced since the Great Depression. The unemployment rate reached as high as 10.1 percent in October 2009 - the highest we have seen since the 1982 recession. In this paper we examine the severity of this recession compared to those in the past by examining worker flows ...

    2010| Eva Sierminska, Yelena Takhtamanova
  • Weekly Report 1 / 2010

    Investments: Women Are More Cautious than Men because They Have Less Financial Resources at Their Disposal

    Experts on investments and financial products assume that women are less amenable to risks and therefore put their money into secure investment products. A current study conducted by the DIW Berlin (German Institute for Economic Research) challenges this view. The study demonstrates that men and women are equally likely to take a chance on risky investments - assuming that they have the same financial ...

    2010| Oleg Badunenko, Nataliya Barasinska, Dorothea Schäfer
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Optimal Taxation: The Design of Child-Related Cash- and In-Kind-Benefits

    In this paper, we empirically derive the welfare function that guarantees that the current German tax and transfer system for single women is optimal. In particular, we compare the welfare function conditional on the presence and age of children and assess how recent reforms of in-kind childcare transfers affect the welfare function. Our analysis is based on a discrete model of optimal taxation. We ...

    In: German Economic Review 11 (2010), 3, S. 278-301 | Peter Haan, Katharina Wrohlich
  • Externe Monographien

    Germany's Next Top Manager: Does Personality Explain the Gender Career Gap?

    Bonn: IZA, 2010, 42 S.
    (Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 5110)
    | Simon Fietze, Elke Holst, Verena Tobsch
  • Externe Monographien

    Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of Management Positions

    Bonn: IZA, 2010, 33 S.
    (Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 5116)
    | Eileen Trzcinski, Elke Holst
  • SOEPpapers 331 / 2010

    Fertility, Female Labor Supply, and Family Policy

    The present paper develops a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and endogenous fertility in order to analyze the interaction between public policy and household labor supply and fertility decisions. The model's benchmark equilibrium reflects the current family policy as well as the differential fertility pattern of educational groups in Germany. Then we simulate alternative reforms ...

    2010| Hans Fehr, Daniela Ujhelyiova
  • Diskussionspapiere 1072 / 2010

    Who Does What in a Household after Genocide? Evidence from Rwanda

    This paper investigates the determinants of intra-household time allocation in post-war Rwanda. A decade after the 1994 genocide, Rwanda still bears the demographic impact of the war, in which at least 800,000 people died and the majority of casualties were adult males. The paper explores two unique features: exogenous variation in household types and large variation in regional cohort-specific sex ...

    2010| Kati Schindler
  • SOEPpapers 266 / 2010

    Interrelationships among Locus of Control and Years in Management and Unemployment: Differences by Gender

    This paper focuses on gender differences in the role played by locus of control within a model that predicts outcomes for men and women at two opposite poles of the labour market: high level managerial / leadership positions and unemployment. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in the processes by which highly positive and ...

    2010| Eileen Trzcinski, Elke Holst
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