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Health of Parents, Their Children's Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers

Is Interest Rate Hiking a Recipe for Missing Several Goals of Monetary Policy—Beating Inflation, Preserving Financial Stability, and Keeping up Output Growth?

levelsof all goods in the US and Europe rose surprisingly quickly and persistently. TheFED began in March 2022 and the ECB in July 2022 with historically unique interestrate increases to combat the wage-price spiral that had not yet begun. In this article weshow that energy, commodities and food were the main drivers of inflation. For this reason,central banks’ goal of weakening demand for labor through ...

No Lasting Increase in the Gender Care Gap in Germany after the Coronavirus Pandemic

The gender care gap, i.e., the difference between the amount of unpaid care work—such as childcare and housework—performed between men and women is comparatively high in Germany: Women take on much more unpaid care work than men. This gap increases consistently when starting a family. At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, many feared that the gender care gap may grow even larger. In ...

Gender Care Gap in Deutschland: Kein anhaltender Anstieg infolge der Corona-Pandemie

Der Gender Care Gap, also der geschlechtsspezifische Unterschied in der Aufteilung unbezahlter Sorgearbeit wie Kinderbetreuung und Hausarbeit, ist in Deutschland vergleichsweise hoch. Frauen übernehmen deutlich mehr unbezahlte Sorgearbeit als Männer. Besonders mit der Familiengründung steigt der Gender Care Gap nachhaltig an. Zu Beginn der Corona-Pandemie vor knapp vier Jahren wurde vielfach befürchtet, ...

Ungleichheiten auf Arbeitsmarkt und bei Sorgearbeit beeinflussen sich wechselseitig: Interview

Child Sick Care-Related Absence from Work and the Consequences on Parents’ Income

This study investigates the impact of child-related absence from work on the income of working mothers and fathers, addressing a significant research gap in sociology and labour economics. While previous research has established that gender and parenthood significantly influence income levels, the consequences of caring for a sick child—a common and unpredictable responsibility—remain inadequately ...

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The Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on Long-Term Care: Evidence on Prices, Provision, and Quality

In this paper we document how macroeconomic conditions affect the prices, provision, and quality of long-term care in Germany. We use a large administrative data set which contains rich information on all providers and the universe of recipients of long-term care. For the identification we exploit variation in the unemployment rate across regions and over time and use a panel data approach with...

Long-term Care in Germany

This chapter provides an overview of the German long-term care insurance. We document care needs and wellbeing of the elderly population. Moreover, we provide a detailed description of the German long-term care institutions (sources of finance and types of benefits), the professional care work force, and informal caregivers. Finally, we document expenditures on long-term care and estimate the value ...

Infection Rates Matter – Especially for People from Lower Social Class: A Large-Scale Investigation of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health

The COVID-19 pandemic was a long-lasting and stressful event that had enormous psychological, economic, and social consequences. This study extends prior research by examining the relationship between infection rates and mental health as well as its dependency on social class. Therefore, we used large-scale data from a nationwide sample (N = 5,742) across two time periods in the COVID-19 pandemic in ...