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Research on the division of labour has mainly focussed on transitions between individuals’ labour market states during the first years of parenthood. A common conclusion has been that couples specialise – women in unpaid and men in paid work – either due to gender ideologies or a comparative advantage in the labour market. But what happens later in life? The German Socio-Economic Panel now provides ...
In:
Advances in Life Course Research
24 (2015), June 2015, 47-65
| Laura Antonia Langner
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Work hour flexibility is believed to help couples manage career and family demands. The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) is unique in following both the flexible employee and their partner over time. The study utilizes this feature to investigate whether the take-up of work hour flexibility is detrimental for the flexible employee’s wage development. Men and women benefit from flexible working ...
In:
Work, Employment and Society
32 (2017), 4, 687–706
| Laura Antonia Langner
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Analyzing the development of the consequences of voluntary job changes in Germany between 1985 and 2013, the study focuses on income gains and job satisfaction increases. Drawing on arguments of the job-search literature on the one hand and the proliferation of choices on the other we investigate whether the returns of job changes have increased or decreased. Results show that income gains have decreased ...
In:
Journal of Vocational Behavior
93 (2016), April 2016, 139-149
| Markus Latzke, Ralph Kattenbach, Thomas Schneidhofer, Florian Schramm, Wolfgang Mayrhofer
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Despite political efforts, balancing work and family life is still challenging. This paper provides novel evidence on the effect of firm level interventions that seek to reduce the work–life conflict. The focus is on how childcare support affects the well-being, working time, and caring behaviour of mothers with young children. Since the mid-2000s and pushed by public policies, in Germany an increasing ...
In:
Oxford Economic Papers
71 (2019), 1, 95-118
| Verena Lauber, Johanna Storck
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Mannheim:
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW),
2002,
(ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-06)
| Charlotte Lauer
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Mannheim:
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW),
2003,
(ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-34)
| Charlotte Lauer
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In:
Labour Economics
10 (2003), 1, 231-251
| Charlotte Lauer
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In:
Brussels Economic Review - Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles
47 (2004), 3/4, 505-541
| Charlotte Lauer
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Mannheim:
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW),
2000,
(ZEW Discussion Paper No. 00-04)
| Charlotte Lauer, Viktor Steiner
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In:
Colm Harmon, Ian Walker, Niels Westergaard-Nielsen ,
Education and Earnings in Europe - A Cross Country Analysis of the Returns to Education
Cheltenham / Northampton: Edward Elgar
102-128
| Charlotte Lauer, Viktor Steiner