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Motherhood penalties vary strongly across societal contexts. While most studies that aim to explain such differences focus on institutions, a smaller literature refers to the influence of cultural norms or a complex interaction between the two. Empirically, however, it is yet unclear if such norms play a role and how they—jointly with institutions—contribute to motherhood penalties. We make use of ...
2020,
(SocArXiv Preprints)
| Matthias Collischon, Andreas Eberl, Malte Reichelt
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Whilst gender inequality has been falling in the developed world, child-related gender inequality in pay has stayed constant. In this paper I use German panel data spanning across 33 years from 1984 until 2017 including over 50,000 individuals. The main contribution of this paper is the analysis of the effect of parenthood on women’s and men’s earnings using propensity score matching. I estimate the ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1120)
| Charlotte H. Feldhoff
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An important issue on the political agenda of many developed countries is the intensive margin of formal child care and, consequently, the effects of expanding the operating hours of child care institutions. We add to this debate by studying the effects of offering full-day child care on child development. Specifically, we analyze the consequences of a substantial increase of full-day slots at the ...
In:
Labour Economics
55 (2018), December 2018, 259-281
| Christina Felfe, Larissa Zierow
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Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to globalization on the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to greater import competition from Eastern Europe led to worse labor market outcomes and lower fertility rates. In contrast, workers in industries that benefited from increased ...
In:
Demography
59 (2022), 6, 2135-2159
| Osea Giuntella, Lorenzo Rotunno, Luca Stella
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The German law on co-determination at the plant level (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz) stipulates that works councilors are neither to be financially rewarded nor penalized for their activities. This regulation contrasts with publicized instances of excessive payments. The divergence has sparked a debate about the need to reform the law. This paper provides representative evidence on wage payments to works ...
In:
Economic and Industrial Democracy
45 (2024), 1, 83-115
| Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg
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While research often invokes gender disparities in wage-determining characteristics to explain gender pay gaps, why these gender disparities and gender pay gaps vary across contexts has received less attention. Therefore, I analyze how subnational gender ideologies predict gender pay gaps in two ways: as directly affecting gender pay gaps and as indirectly predicting gender pay gaps through intermediate ...
In:
Social Sciences
10 (2021), 9, 347
| Maik Hamjediers
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A German panel data of vehicle and owner characteristics is used to analyse the incidence of additional carbon taxes. It is shown that an additional carbon tax on fuel used for private transportation is regressive when there is no allocation of tax revenue. When smoothing consumption across time in the face of additional carbon taxes, low income households can reduce the tax burden. When the cost of ...
In:
Energy Policy
143 (2020), 111579
| Miguel A. Tovar Reaños
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The Comparative Panel File (CPF) harmonizes the world’s largest and longest-running household panel surveys from seven countries: Australia (HILDA), Germany (SOEP), United Kingdom (BHPS and UKHLS), South Korea (KLIPS), Russia (RLMS), Switzerland (SHP), and the United States (PSID). The project aims to support the social science community in the analysis of comparative life course data. The CPF builds ...
In:
European Sociological Review
37 (2021), 3, 505-523
| Konrad Turek, Matthijs Kalmijn, Thomas Leopold
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Retirement is one of the major life course transitions in old age. Evidence suggests that exiting work life is associated with notable changes in life satisfaction, which are heterogeneous across individuals. Effects of retirement transitions on life satisfaction have been understudied in couples. We examined change in life satisfaction with retirement for retirees and their spouses/partners, the extent ...
In:
The Journals of Gerontology: Series B
76 (2021), 8, 1542-1554
| Elisa Weber, Gizem Hülür
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Diese Dissertation enthält zwei Studien, die den Effekt finanzieller Anreize auf Fertilität analysieren und eine Studie, die analysiert wie Studenten, die sich selbst überschätzen, auf Feedback reagieren. Kapitel 1 erläutert die Motivation meiner Forschung. Kapitel 2 präsentiert eine Studie über den Fertilitätseffekt von Kindergeld. Die Studie analysiert eine deutsche Reform, durch die das Kindergeld ...
2019,
| Frederik Wiynck