In diesem Projekt werden die Auswirkungen der Bereitstellung von informelle Pflege für Angehörige auf die Karrieren der pflegenden Personen untersucht. Die Analyse nutzt administrative Daten aus den Niederlanden.
It is the aim of the project to analyze the labor market consequences of informal care provision. For the identification we follow the literature on childcare penalties (see Kleven et al. 2019) to quantify the short- and long-run career costs of childcare. Rellstab et al. (2020) for the Netherlands and Halla et al. (2021) for Austria have applied this framework to estimate the career effects for...
Informal childcare care by grandparents, other relatives or friends is an important source of support in many Western countries, including Germany. Yet the role of this type of care is often overlooked in accounts of social policies supporting families with children, which tend to focus on formal childcare. This article examines whether the large formal childcare expansion occurring in Germany in the ...
This paper explores the role of family trajectories during childhood in explaining inequalities by maternal education in children's math and reading skills using harmonized, longitudinal, and nationally representative surveys, which follow children over the course of primary and lower secondary school in four high-income countries (England, France, Germany, and the United States). As single parenthood ...
Die aktuelle Schuldenbremse muss reformiert werden. Dies darf nicht symbolisch und kosmetisch erfolgen, wie es sich in der Debatte bisher andeutet, sondern muss eine signifikante Verbesserung bringen. Die Reform muss insbesondere den blinden Fleck der Generationengerechtigkeit berück-sichtigen. Eine generationengerechte Schuldenregel erfordert vier konkrete Änderungen: (1) Eine nominale Ausgabenregel ...
For many people, parenthood constitutes a crucial part of a successful life. Yet, the number of adults who never have children is increasing and has prompted concerns about their well-being. Past research mostly focused on parents and rarely investigated factors that are theoretically meaningful for the well-being of adults without children. Our preregistered study uses a propensity-score matched design ...