Women’s Hours of Market Work in Germany – The Role of Parental Leave

Merz, Monika

doi:10.4337/9781845425623.00015

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“…Similar to studies for the US or Sweden, Lalive et al (2010) for excellent treatment of this issue for Austria, as well as Merz (2005) or Ludsteck and Schönberg (2008) for Germany.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 82%

Do Austrian men and women become more equal? At least in terms of labour supply!

Wernhart

Winter‐Ebmer

2011

Empirica

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We study the development of wage elasticity of labour supply for Austrian men and women over time using comparable and representative survey data for the 1980s and 1990s. The elasticity of men is relatively low and constant over time, similar to the behaviour of single women. Most remarkable is the almost continuous reduction in the labour supply reactions of married women: while their elasticity was still several times larger at the beginning of the 1980s, they approached rapidly the much less elastic behaviour of men. These developments are important for the analysis of deadweight losses of taxation as well as the effects of tax reforms and wage subsidy programs.

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“…Similar to studies for the US or Sweden, Lalive et al (2010) for excellent treatment of this issue for Austria, as well as Merz (2005) or Ludsteck and Schönberg (2008) for Germany.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 82%

Do Austrian men and women become more equal? At least in terms of labour supply!

Wernhart

Winter‐Ebmer

2011

Empirica

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“…The wage offer distribution is also not time-dependent, so mothers do not suffer from human capital depreciation of any form. 19 Jobs last forever and job offers are assumed to be on a take-it-or-leave-it basis for mothers.…”

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Parental Leave and Mothers' Careers: The Relative Importance of Job Protection and Cash Benefits

Lalive

Schlosser

Steinhauer

et al. 2013

The Review of Economic Studies

158

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Parental leave regulations in most OECD countries have two key policy instruments: job protection and cash benefits. This paper studies how mothers' labor market outcomes depend on alternative mixes of these key policy parameters. Exploiting a series of major parental leave policy changes in Austria, we find that longer cash benefits lead to a significant delay in return to work and that the magnitude of this effect depends on the relative length of job protection and cash benefits. We do not find a significant impact on labor market success in the medium run, neither of benefit duration nor of job-protection duration. To understand the relative importance (and interaction) of the two instruments we set up a non-stationary job search model in which cash benefits and job protection determine the decisions of both when to return to work and whether or not to return to the pre-birth employer. Despite its lean structure, the model does surprisingly well in matching empirically observed return to work profiles. The simulation of alternative counterfactual regimes shows that a policy that combines both job protection and benefits payments succeeds to induce mothers to spend some time with the child after birth without jeopardizing their medium run labor market attachment.JEL Classification: J13, J18, J22 Keywords: Parental leave, family and work obligations, return to work, labor supply, earnings, family earnings gap * We acknowledge helpful discussions with Giovanni Favara, Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers, participants at the IFN workshop on family policy in Stockholm, the ESSLE conference in Buch/Ammersee and the ZEW microsimulation conference in Mannheim, and seminar participants at the Federal Reserve Bank

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“…The share of women working either full-or part-time is about 62.8%, this seems to be reasonable and representative for this population. Merz (2005) presents comparable results for the women's employment-to-population ratio in Germany in 2000. 12.2% of the women in the sample are counted as participating in the labor market even though they are not gainfully employed at the time.…”

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Female Labor Force Participation and the Big Five

Wichert

Pohlmeier

2010

SSRN Journal

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This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits and female labor force participation. While research on the role of cognitive skills for individual labor market success has a long tradition in economics, comparatively little is known about the channels through which non-cognitive skills affect individual labor market behavior. There is striking evidence that personality traits play a major role in explaining individual differences in school attendance and school performance. However, comparatively little is known about how and which personality traits effect labor supply decisions. In this paper, we relate personality traits to preference parameters using a conventional structural framework of labor force participation. This allows us to separate the direct effects of personality traits affecting the individual participation decision through different individual preferences from the indirect effects through wages.We can show that personality traits play an important role in the female labor force participation decision. The channels through which personality traits effect labor force participation are manifold and depend on the specific trait. Aggregation of traits to a single index is therefore a suboptimal strategy. PsycINFO classification: 2223, 3120 JEL classification: C35, J22, J24

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Women’s Hours of Market Work in Germany – The Role of Parental Leave

Cited by 16 publications

References 8 publications

Do Austrian men and women become more equal? At least in terms of labour supply!

Do Austrian men and women become more equal? At least in terms of labour supply!

Parental Leave and Mothers' Careers: The Relative Importance of Job Protection and Cash Benefits

Female Labor Force Participation and the Big Five

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