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Chung, Heejung (2018): Dualization and the access to occupational family-friendly working-time arrangements across Europe. In: Social policy and administration, Jg. 52, H. 2, S. 491-507. DOI:10.1111/spol.12379

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"This article examines outsiders' relative access to occupational level family-friendly policies. I use data from the European Working Conditions Survey of 2015 across 30 European countries examining workers' access to two types of family-friendly working-time arrangements (WTAs): flexitime, and time off work for personal reasons. The article focuses on women with care responsibilities given that their demands for family-friendly policies, as well as their outcomes, have been shown to be distinct from the rest of the working population. In addition to the outsider definition used in the labor market dualization and occupational segmentation literature, i.e., low-skilled workers and those without a permanent contract, this article also defines outsiders as those perceiving their job as insecure. The results of the analysis show a segmentation between workers in their access to family-friendly policies. Unlike statutory policies, occupational policies seem to be selectively provided mostly to workers where employers have a vested interest, i.e., insiders, resulting in a dualized system for most countries. However, rather than their contract status, the skill-level of the job/workers, and their perceived insecurity were found to be important. The results further show that although Northern European and some continental European countries are those where family-friendly WTAs are more readily available, it is in these countries where the division between insiders and outsiders is the greatest. The results of the article contribute to the literature by showing a need to move beyond the national level when examining family-friendly policies, and to examine a more diverse definition of outsiders when examining dualization of working conditions." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Cygan-Rehm, Kamila, Daniel Kühnle & Regina T. Riphahn (2018): Paid parental leave and families' living arrangements. (IZA discussion paper 11533), Bonn, 51 S.

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"We examine how a paid parental leave reform causally affected families' living arrangements. The German reform we examine replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Combining a regression discontinuity with a difference-in-differences design, we find that the reform increased the probability that a newborn lives with non-married cohabiting parents. This effect results from a reduced risk of single parenthood among women who gained from the reform. We reject the economic independence hypothesis and argue that the reform effects for those who benefited from the reform are consistent with hypotheses related to the improved financial situation of new mothers after the reform and increased paternal involvement in childcare." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Depew, Briggs & Joseph Price (2018): Marriage and the economic status of women with children. In: Review of Economics of the Household, Jg. 16, H. 4, S. 1049-1061. DOI:10.1007/s11150-017-9395-8

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"Marriage is positively correlated with income, and women with children are much less likely to be in poverty if they are married. Selection into marriage makes it difficult to assess whether these correlations represent a causal effect of marriage. One instrument for marriage proposed in past research is the gender of a woman's first child. We find that women who have a boy first are about 0.33 percentage points more likely to be married at any point in time. This effect operates through both increasing the probability that unmarried mothers marry the child's father and reducing the probability of divorce. We also find that women whose first child is a boy experience higher levels of family income and are less likely to receive welfare income, be below the poverty line, and receive food stamps. Estimates using child gender as an instrumental variable for marriage suggest that marriage plays a large causal role in improving the economic well-being of women with children and that these effects are largest among women at the lower end of the income distribution." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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Diener, Katharina & Anne Berngruber (2018): Die Bedeutung öffentlicher Kinderbetreuung für die Erwerbsentscheidung und den Erwerbsumfang von Müttern beim beruflichen Wiedereinstieg. In: Zeitschrift für Familienforschung, Jg. 30, H. 2, S. 124-150., 2017-11-07. DOI:10.3224/zff.v30i2.01

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"Der Beitrag untersucht, welche Rolle öffentliche Kinderbetreuung bei der Erwerbsentscheidung und dem Erwerbsumfang von Müttern aus Paarhaushalten nach der Elternzeit spielt. Betrachtet werden Einstellungen der Mütter zur Kinderbetreuung und die tatsächliche Nutzung verschiedener Betreuungsmöglichkeiten während der Elternzeit sowie die Betreuungsquote auf Kreisebene. Datengrundlage sind die Paneldaten der DJI-Länderstudie der Jahre 2012 bis 2014. Für die Entscheidung wieder in den Beruf einzusteigen sind insbesondere der geplante Zeitpunkt der Rückkehr und der gewünschte Stundenumfang von Bedeutung. Eine positive Einstellung zur öffentlichen Betreuung von Kindern im Alter von ein bis zwei Jahren und die Betreuung in einer Kita oder in Tagespflege während der Elternzeit, sowie eine höhere Kinderbetreuungsquote auf Kreisebene, führen dazu, dass Mütter in höherem Umfang wieder erwerbstätig werden." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Dotti Sani, Giulia M. & Stefani Scherer (2018): Maternal Employment: Enabling Factors in Context. In: Work, employment and society, Jg. 32, H. 1, S. 75-92. DOI:10.1177/0950017016677944

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"Maternal employment is still below the overall EU recommended level of 60% in many European countries. Understanding the individual, household and contextual circumstances under which mothers of children of different ages are likely to be employed is crucial to develop strategies capable of increasing maternal employment. This article takes a comparative approach to investigating the characteristics associated with maternal employment in the presence of children aged 0 - 2, 3 - 5, 6 - 9 and 10 - 12 years. We model the probability of being employed full-time, part-time or being a homemaker using EU-SILC data (2004 to 2007) from Germany, Italy, Norway and the United Kingdom - four countries belonging to different gender and welfare regimes. The results indicate that individual and household characteristics are more relevant in determining mothers' employment in countries where the state is less supportive towards maternal employment: Italy and to a lesser extent Germany and the UK - for the period observed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Evertsson, Marie & Katarina Boye (2018): The transition to parenthood and the division of parental leave in different-sex and female same-sex couples in Sweden. In: European Sociological Review, Jg. 34, H. 5, S. 471-485. DOI:10.1093/esr/jcy027

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"Research on the division of paid and unpaid work at the transition to parenthood has rarely been able to separate the social construction of gender and motherhood/fatherhood identities from labour market and financial factors. By bringing in female same-sex couples (SSC) and comparing how the transition to parenthood influences the division of parental leave in SSC and different-sex couples (DSC), we can isolate parents' gender as a predictor of the division of care from physiological and identity-forming aspects linked to being a birth-mother (or her partner). Analysing Swedish register data for couples who had their first child in 2003-2011, results show that (i) the (birth) mother's leave uptake is higher than the partner's uptake for both SSC and DSC, providing support for identity formation and internalized norms linked to the child's need of its (birth) mother; (ii) birth-mothers in SSC on average take 7 weeks less parental leave than mothers in DSC, indicating that the partner's gender plays a role; and (iii) the (birth) mother's parental leave share is negatively related to her income but unrelated to her partner's income, suggesting that her labour market prospects are more important in the division of leave than any financial, family-utility maximization." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Florian, Sandra M. (2018): Racial variation in the effect of motherhood on women's employment. Temporary or enduring effect? In: Social science research, Jg. 73, H. July, S. 80-91. DOI:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2018.02.012

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Fuller, Sylvia (2018): Segregation across workplaces and the motherhood wage gap. Why do mothers work in low-wage establishments? In: Social forces, Jg. 96, H. 4, S. 1143-1476. DOI:10.1093/sf/sox087

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"While maternal employment has become the norm in advanced industrial nations, gendered norms of parenting and employment disadvantage mothers in the labor force. This paper sheds new light on motherhood pay gaps by investigating the contribution of an understudied dynamic - mothers' overrepresentation in low-paying workplaces. Estimating between- and within-establishment wage gaps with nationally representative Canadian linked employer-employee data reveals that segregation in low-paying establishments accounts for the bulk of mothers' wage disadvantage relative to childless women. Pay gaps net of human capital differences are not chiefly a result of mothers' lower wages vis-à-vis similar women in a given workplace, but rather stem from the fact that mothers are disproportionately employed in workplaces that pay all employees relatively poorly. Having identified the importance of between-establishment segregation, additional analyses probe support for two theories about underlying mechanisms: compensating differentials tied to family-supportive work contexts, and discrimination. While each plays a role, evidence is strongest for discrimination, with organizational characteristics that tend to reduce opportunities for discrimination also dramatically reducing or eliminating motherhood pay gaps." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Gürtzgen, Nicole & Karsten Hank (2018): Maternity leave and mothers' long-term sickness absence. Evidence from West Germany. In: Demography, Jg. 55, H. 2, S. 587-615., 2017-10-09. DOI:10.1007/s13524-018-0654-y

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"Exploiting unique German administrative data, we estimate the association between an expansion in maternity leave duration from two to six months in 1979 and mothers' post-birth long-term sickness absence over a period of three decades after childbirth. Adopting a difference-in-difference approach, we first assess the reform's labor market effects and, subsequently, pre- and post-birth maternal long-term sickness absence, accounting for the potential role of the reform in mothers' selection into employment. Consistent with previous research, our estimates show that the leave extension caused mothers to significantly delay their return to work within the first year after childbirth. We then provide difference-in-difference estimates for the number and length of spells of long-term sickness absence among returned mothers. Our findings suggest that among those returned, mothers subject to the leave extension exhibit a higher incidence of long-term sickness absence as compared to mothers who gave birth before the reform. This also holds true after controlling for observable differences in pre-birth illness histories. At the same time, there are no pronounced effects on mothers' medium-run labor market attachment following the short-run delay in return to work, which might rationalize a negative causal health effect. Breaking down the results by mothers' pre-birth health status suggests that the higher incidence of long-term sickness absence among mothers subject to the reform may be explained by the fact that the reform facilitated the re-entry of a negative health selection into the labor market." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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Herbst, Chris M. (2018): The impact of quality rating and improvement systems on families' child care choices and the supply of child care labor. In: Labour economics, Jg. 54, H. October, S. 172-190. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2018.08.007

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"Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) are increasingly deployed by U.S. states to monitor and improve the quality of non-parental child care settings. By making information on program quality accessible to the public, QRIS attempts to alter parental preferences for quality-related attributes and encourage competition between providers. This paper draws on a variety of datasets to empirically characterize the way in which families and providers respond to the enactment of QRIS. Specifically, it exploits the differential timing in states' QRIS roll-out to examine two sets of outcomes: (i) families' child care choices and maternal employment and (ii) the supply and compensation of child care labor. Estimates from difference-in-differences models reveal several noteworthy findings. First, although QRIS induces families to shift from parental to non-parental care, economically disadvantaged families are more likely to use informal care, while their advantaged counterparts are more likely to use formal care. Second, QRIS increases the supply of high-skilled labor, particularly within the center-based sector. Third, all but the most highly-skilled child care workers experience rising compensation levels but also greater turnover. Finally, states that administer a wage compensation program alongside their QRIS experience larger increases in child care supply and compensation as well as lower turnover rates than states operating a QRIS in isolation." (Author's abstract, © 2018 Elsevier) ((en))

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Hipp, Lena (2018): Damned if you do, damned if you don't? Experimental evidence on hiring discrimination against parents with differing lengths of family leave. (SocArXiv Papers), 37 S. DOI:10.31235/osf.io/qsm4x

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"Trotz vieler Veränderungen in den letzten Jahren erfahren Mütter in Deutschland noch immer große Nachteile auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. In einem Experiment hat Lena Hipp, Leiterin der Nachwuchsgruppe Arbeit und Fürsorge, mit ihrem Team jetzt untersucht, ob sich eine veränderte Aufteilung von Kinderbetreuung positiv auf die Erwerbschancen von Müttern auswirkt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass das nicht unbedingt der Fall ist. Mütter mit lediglich zwei Monaten Elternzeit werden deutlich seltener zum Vorstellungsgespräch eingeladen als Frauen, die ein Jahr Elternzeit genommen haben. Bei den Vätern dagegen spielt die Dauer der Elternzeit keine Rolle." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Hübgen, Sabine (2018): 'Only a husband away from poverty'? Lone mothers' poverty risks in a European comparison. In: L. Bernardi & D. Mortelmans (Hrsg.) (2018): Lone parenthood in the life course (Life course research and social policies, 08), S. 167-189. DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-63295-7_8

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"Over the last 10 years at-risk-of-poverty rates across Europe have been rather stable or rising only slightly. However, certain demographic groups face comparatively high poverty risks. Lone mothers belong usually to the most affected groups by income poverty - but variations are striking. Though, still little research has been done for explaining this vast variation across Europe. It is argued that institutional arrangements in the labor market and the welfare state shaped by existing gender inequalities have an impact on lone mothers' poverty risks. For instance, in countries where women's access to (full time) paid work is low and/or the gender pay gap is high, lone mothers are particularly disadvantaged due to the absent (male) partner. Furthermore, the lack of public childcare and a gendered eligibility to social benefits aggravate lone mothers' poverty risk. I also hypothesize that gendered institutional arrangements mediate the effect of individual characteristics on lone mothers' poverty risks - namely the poverty-reducing effect of employment and the poverty-enhancing effect of children. To prove these hypotheses empirically, I compare 25 European countries running several multi-level models based on pooled EU-SILC data (2009 - 2012). Results show that existing gender inequalities - particularly the access to full time employment for women and gender-specific welfare eligibility - indeed account for country differences in the level of lone mothers' poverty risk. Furthermore, there is empirical evidence that gender inequalities in the labor market shape the poverty-reducing effect of full time employment. Other specific mechanisms modeled in form of cross-level interactions cannot be supported by the data." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Jerg-Bretzke, L., P. Krüsmann, H. C. Traue & K. Limbrecht-Ecklundt (2018): "Was ihr wollt", Ergebnisse einer empirischen Bedarfsanalyse zur Verbesserung der Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf bei Ärztinnen und Ärzten. In: Das Gesundheitswesen, Jg. 80, H. 1, S. 20-26. DOI:10.1055/s-0041-111842

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"Ziel der Studie: Kliniken stehen vermehrt der Anforderung gegenüber für Ärztinnen und Ärzte Arbeitsbedingungen zu schaffen, die eine Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf ermöglichen. Dies ist gleichzeitig auch als Chance zu betrachten, sich als Arbeitgeber von anderen Kliniken abzuheben. Methode: N=120 Ärztinnen und Ärzte der Medizinischen Fakultät sowie N=679 Studierende der Humanmedizin im vorklinischen und klinischen Abschnitt wurden online befragt. Im Fokus dieser Studie stand die Erfassung des Veränderungsbedarfs an Kliniken zur Verbesserung der Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf. Ergebnisse: Hypothesenkonform zeigte sich in der Work-Family/Family-Work Conflict Scale (WFC/FWC) eine erschwerte Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Tätigkeit nach Eintritt in das Berufsleben - insbesondere mit Kind. Besonders die Arbeitsunterbrechung im Notfall, Teilzeitregelungen oder Notfallbetreuung für Kinder schätzen über 90% Befragten als wichtiges Instrument zur Verbesserung der Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf ein. Zusätzlich wünschen sich Ärztinnen und Ärzte, dass ihre Vorgesetzten Vereinbarkeitsthemen aktiv unterstützen. Schlussfolgerung: Die Analyse der Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Tätigkeit zeigt Handlungsbedarf in den untersuchten Stichproben. Durch die erfassten Maßnahmen, die als entlastend beurteilt werden, können konkrete Handlungsschritte für Kliniken abgeleitet werden. Die Analyse des WFC/FWC stellt eine Möglichkeit dar, standardisiert die Belastung durch Tätigkeit in der Familie und vice versa zu erfassen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Jergus, Kerstin, Jens Oliver Krüger & Anna Roch (Hrsg.) (2018): Elternschaft zwischen Projekt und Projektion. (Studien zur Schul- und Bildungsforschung 61), Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 319 S. DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-15005-1

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"Dieser Band versammelt aktuelle sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektiven der Elternforschung, mit denen Elternschaft zwischen 'Projekt und Projektion' als eigenständiges Forschungsfeld konturiert wird. Gegenwärtig rücken Eltern auf vielfältige Weise in den Mittelpunkt bildungs- und sozialpolitischer, gesellschaftlicher und medialer Aufmerksamkeit. Verbunden mit dem Wandel von Familienverständnissen und Kindheitsbildern und verflochten mit veränderten Geschlechter- und Lohnerwerbsverhältnissen wird Elternschaft zunehmend zu einer zwischen Anforderung und Überforderung changierenden Gestaltungsaufgabe. Die komplexen Anforderungen an Elternschaft wie auch die heterogenen Lebenslagen und Praktiken von Eltern werden in den Einzelbeiträgen dieses Bandes zum Gegenstand theoretischer Reflexionen und empirischer Analysen gemacht." (Verlagsangaben, IAB-Doku)

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Keller, Wolfgang & Hâle Utar (2018): Globalization, gender, and the family. (NBER working paper 25247), Cambrige, Mass., 96 S. DOI:10.3386/w25247

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"This paper shows that globalization has far-reaching implications for the economy's fertility rate and family structure because they influence work-life balance. Employing population register data on new births, marriages, and divorces together with employer-employee linked data for Denmark, we show that lower labor market opportunities due to Chinese import competition lead to a shift towards family, with more parental leave taking and higher fertility as well as more marriages and fewer divorces. This pro-family, pro-child shift is driven largely by women, not men. Correspondingly, the negative earnings implications of the rising import competition are concentrated on women, and gender earnings inequality increases. We show that the choice of market versus family is a major determinant of worker adjustment costs to labor market shocks. While older workers respond to the shock rather similarly whether female or not, for young workers the fertility response takes away the adjustment advantage they typically have - if the worker is a woman. We find that the female biological clock - women have difficulties to conceive beyond their early forties - is central for the gender differential, rather than the composition of jobs and workplaces, as well as other potential causes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Keller, Matthias & Irene Kahle (2018): Realisierte Erwerbstätigkeit von Müttern und Vätern zur Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf. In: Wirtschaft und Statistik H. 3, S. 54-71.

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"Die Organisation des Zusammenlebens in Familien erfordert von Eltern in der Regel einen Kompromiss zwischen der Kinderbetreuung und dem Erwirtschaften des Lebensunterhaltes. Dies gilt insbesondere für Eltern mit kleinen Kindern unter drei Jahren, die in besonders starkem Umfang der Betreuung bedürfen. Der vorliegende Aufsatz stellt aktuelle Zahlen zur Erwerbstätigkeit von Eltern aus dem Mikrozensus 2016 dar, dabei wird das Konzept der 'realisierten Erwerbstätigkeit' zugrunde gelegt (Personen, die ihre Erwerbstätigkeit durch Mutterschutz oder Elternzeit unterbrochen haben, werden bei diesem Konzept nicht zu den Erwerbstätigen gezählt). Im Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung stehen Mütter und Väter mit mindestens einem minderjährigen Kind. Es zeigt sich, dass vor allem Mütter mit Kleinkindern seltener einer realisierten Erwerbstätigkeit nachgehen als Väter und dazu noch erheblich häufiger in Teilzeit tätig sind." (Autorenreferat, © Statistisches Bundesamt, Wiesbaden)

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Kil, Tine, Karel Neels, Jonas Wood & Helga A. G. De Valk (2018): Employment After Parenthood. Women of Migrant Origin and Natives Compared. In: European Journal of Population, Jg. 34, H. 3, S. 413-440. DOI:10.1007/s10680-017-9431-7

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"Motherhood negatively affects female employment in majority populations across Europe. Although employment levels are particularly low among women of migrant origin, little is known about the motherhood - employment link in migrant populations. This paper investigates whether family formation differentially affects the labour market position of migrant women and their descendants compared to natives. Using longitudinal microdata from the Belgian social security registers, 12,167 women are followed from 12 months before until 48 months after the birth of their first child for the period 1999 - 2010. Levels of activity (versus inactivity), employment (versus unemployment) and full-time employment (versus part-time employment) are compared between natives and first- and second-generation women of Southern European, Eastern European, Turkish and Moroccan origin. We find that activity and employment levels decrease to a larger extent following the transition to parenthood among women of migrant origin than among natives. With respect to activity levels, differences between second-generation women and natives are largely explained by socio-demographic and pre-birth job characteristics, while differences between first-generation women and natives are not, suggesting that other factors such as tied migration patterns determine labour market attachment among first-generation mothers. With respect to employment levels, unemployment is increasing more among women of migrant origin of both generations than among natives, also when controlling for background characteristics, which signals differential access to stable job positions as well as to family policies. In sum, the results draw attention to the challenge that parenthood creates for mothers of migrant origin in terms of retaining and gaining employment, but also to the role of labour market entry and early career positions." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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Kim, Jungho (2018): Duration of parental leave and women's employment. (IZA discussion paper 11383), Bonn, 31 S.

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"The impact of the duration of parental leave on women's employment in Korea is examined by focusing on the heterogeneous effects. The results of the extension of the maximum job-protected leave from 12 months to 15 months are as follows. First, the policy change led to more female employees taking leave more often and for longer periods. The impact of leave take-up on high wage earners is found to be smaller than that on their low wage counterparts, but that on duration is larger; this points to a fixed cost in switching between own and paid child care. Further, those in large firms tend to benefit more than those in small- or medium-sized firms. Second, the extension encouraged women to return to work 2-3 years after childbirth, but this effect diminished after 4 years. The findings suggest that the distributional effect should be considered in designing leave policy." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Kluve, Jochen & Sebastian Schmitz (2018): Back to work: parental benefits and mothers' labor market outcomes in the medium run. In: ILR review, Jg. 71, H. 1, S. 143-173. DOI:10.1177/0019793917710933

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"The authors estimate policy impacts of a generous parental benefit in Germany by using a natural experiment and German census data. They estimate policy effects for the short run (first two years after childbirth) as well as for the medium run (that is, three to five years after childbirth). Although the results confirm the evidence from previous studies for the short run, pronounced patterns emerge for the medium run. First, effects on mothers' employment probability are positive, significant, and large, ranging up to 10%. These gains are driven primarily by increases in part-time employment and working hours but also by full-time employment for high-income mothers. Moreover, mothers return to their previous employers at significantly higher rates, and employers reward this by raising job quality. The overall positive and sizeable impacts of the reform are centered on mothers from the medium and high terciles of the income distribution; low-income mothers do not benefit." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Kreyenfeld, Michaela & Anja Vatterrott (2018): Salmon migration and fertility in East Germany. An analysis of birth dynamics around German reunification. In: Zeitschrift für Familienforschung, Jg. 30, H. 3, S. 247-266. DOI:10.3224/zff.v30i3.02

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"In diesem Beitrag werden die Registerdaten der deutschen Rentenversicherung verwendet, um die Übergänge zum ersten Kind und das 'Spacing' weiterer Kinder in der Zeit nach der Wiedervereinigung zu beschreiben. Wir untersuchen dabei das Geburtenverhalten von ostdeutschen und westdeutschen sowie jenen Frauen, die zwischen den beiden Landesteilen migriert sind. Da in den Rentenregistern monatsgenaue Angaben zum Wohnort enthalten sind, erlauben sie es den Zusammenhang von räumlicher Mobilität und Geburtenverhalten zu analysieren. Insbesondere untersuchen wir die 'Salmon Hypothesis' (Lachshypothese), der zufolge Geburten bis zur Rückkehr der Migrantinnen in ihre Herkunftsregion aufgeschoben werden. Unsere Analysen zeigen, dass ein erheblicher Teil der ostdeutschen Frauen der Geburtsjahrgänge 1965-74 nach Westdeutschland migrierte, jedoch bis zum Alter 40 etwa 50% von ihnen nach Ostdeutschland zurückgekehrt sind. Die Erstgeburtenraten der Rückkehrerinnen sind erhöht, was darauf hinweist, dass die 'Salmon Hypothesis' das Verhalten eines großen Teils der Ost-West-Migrantinnen beschreiben kann." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Kümmerling, Angelika (2018): Geschlechtsspezifische Unterschiede in den Arbeitszeiten. Fortschritt auf der einen, Stagnation auf der anderen Seite. (IAQ-Report 2018-08), Duisburg, 23 S. DOI:10.17185/duepublico/47961

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"Zwischen 2010 und 2016 sind die durchschnittlichen Arbeitszeiten in Deutschland stabil geblieben. Im Mittel arbeiteten abhängig Beschäftigte 2016 35,2 Stunden in der Woche. Von einem unterschiedlichen Niveau ausgehend, haben sich die Arbeitszeiten von Männern seit 2010 leicht verringert, während Frauen heute länger arbeiten. Als Folge davon hat sich der Gender Time Gap (von 9,3 Std. auf 8,7 Std.) deutlich reduziert. Grund hierfür ist ein Trend zu längerer Teilzeit bei den Frauen, insbesondere bei Müttern. Frauen und Männer und vor allem Mütter und Väter haben weiterhin grundsätzlich andere Arbeitszeitrealitäten. Teilzeit hat sich dabei als die Arbeitszeitform von Müttern weiter manifestiert. Im EU-Vergleich sind die Arbeitszeiten von Frauen in Deutschland die zweitkürzesten. Nur in den Niederlanden arbeiten Frauen weniger Stunden in der Woche. Mütter in Deutschland sind im EU-Vergleich deutlich schlechter in den Arbeitsmarkt eingebunden als Frauen ohne Kinder. Kinder zu haben stellt also einen Risikofaktor für die Erwerbstätigkeit und finanzielle Absicherung von Frauen dar. Das Ehegattensplitting steht im Widerspruch zu familienpolitischen Maßnahmen wie KiTa-Ausbau und Elterngeld und erweist sich als Hemmschuh für eine gleichberechtigte Arbeitsteilung von Frauen und Männern." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Liwiński, Jacek (2018): The impact of compulsory education on employment and earnings in a transition economy. (GLO discussion paper / Global Labor Organization 193), Maastricht, 46 S.

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"In 1966 the minimum school-leaving age was increased from 14 to 15 years in Poland. This was a result of extending the primary school education from 7 to 8 years. At the same time, the reform did not affect the education system at post-primary levels, that is the system of secondary and higher education. In result, all education tracks were extended by one year. Using the regression discontinuity design and data from the Polish LFS (2001-2005), we find that the reform had no impact on men's and women's hourly earnings and employment rate. A similar finding was reported earlier for a few Western European countries. However, our study is the first one to estimate the impact of the compulsory schooling extended in a centrally planned economy on the individuals' labour market outcomes in the period of economic transition. Besides, we find that the reform had a negative impact on the hourly earnings of individuals with primary education." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Lubotsky, Darren & Javaeria A. Qureshi (2018): Assessing the smooth rise in mothers' employment as children age. In: Journal of Human Capital, Jg. 12, H. 4, S. 604-639. DOI:10.1086/700077

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"We study the trajectory of maternal employment as children age and assess the factors underlying the smooth increase in mothers' employment as their youngest child ages. Our results indicate that the rising employment profile is largely not associated with falling child care costs, changes in nonlabor income, or marital dissolution as children age. Differences in educational attainment and wage opportunities are related to some of the increase in employment when children are under 4 years old but do not explain any after that age. We discuss explanations for the rising pattern of mothers' employment that might be consistent with our results." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Magda, Iga, Aneta Kielczewska & Nicola Brandt (2018): The effects of large universal child benefits on female labour supply. (IZA discussion paper 11652), Bonn, 19 S.

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"In 2016 the Polish government introduced a large new child benefit, called 'Family 500+', with the aim to increase fertility from a low level and reduce child poverty. The benefit is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. Increasing out-of-work income significantly, the transfer can reduce incentives to participate in the labour market. We study the impact of the new benefit on female labour supply, using Polish Labour Force Survey data. Based on a difference-in-differences methodology we find that the labour market participation rates of women with children decreased after the introduction of the benefit compared to childless women. The estimates suggest that by mid-2017 the labour force participation rate of mothers dropped by 2-3 percentage points, depending on the estimation specification, as a result of the 'Family 500+' benefit. The effect was higher among women with lower levels of education and living in small towns." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Müller, Kai-Uwe, Michael Neumann & Katharina Wrohlich (2018): The family working-time model. Towards more gender equality in work and care. In: Journal of European social policy, Jg. 28, H. 5, S. 471-486. DOI:10.1177/0958928717753581

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"Since the millennium, the labour market participation of women and mothers is increasing across European countries. Several work/care policy measures underlie this evolution. At the same time, the labour market behaviour of fathers, as well as their involvement in care work, is relatively unchanging, meaning that employed mothers are facing an increased burden with respect to gainful employment and providing care. We propose a family working-time model that incentivizes fathers and mothers to both work in extended part-time employment. It provides a benefit in the form of a lump-sum transfer or income replacement for each parent if, and only if, both parents work 30?hours/week. Thus, it explicitly addresses fathers and - contrary to most conventional family policies - actively promotes the dual earner/dual carer paradigm. Combining microsimulation and labour supply estimation, we empirically analyse the potential of the family working-time model in the German context. The relatively small share of families already choosing the symmetric distribution of about 30 working hours would increase by 60?percent. By showing that a lump-sum transfer especially benefits low-income families, we contribute to the debate about redistributive implications of family policies. The basic principles of the model generalize to other European countries where families increasingly desire an equal distribution of employment and care. In order to enhance the impact of such a policy, employers' norms and workplace culture as well as the supply of high-quality childcare must catch up with changing workforce preferences." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Müller, Kai-Uwe & Katharina Wrohlich (2018): Does subsidized care for toddlers increase maternal labor supply? Evidence from a large-scale expansion of early childcare. (DIW-Diskussionspapiere 1747), Berlin, 50 S.

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"Expanding public or publicly subsidized childcare has been a top social policy priority in many industrialized countries. It is supposed to increase fertility, promote children's development and enhance mothers' labor market attachment. In this paper, we analyze the causal effect of one of the largest expansions of subsidized childcare for children up to three years among industrialized countries on the employment of mothers in Germany. Identification is based on spatial and temporal variation in the expansion of publicly subsidized childcare triggered by two comprehensive childcare policy reforms. The empirical analysis is based on the German Microcensus that is matched to county level data on childcare availability. Based on our preferred specification which includes time and county fixed effects we find that an increase in childcare slots by one percentage point increases mothers' labor market participation rate by 0.2 percentage points. The overall increase in employment is explained by the rise in part-time employment with relatively long hours (20-35 hours per week). We do not find a change in full-time employment or lower part-time employment that is causally related to the childcare expansion. The effect is almost entirely driven by mothers with medium-level qualifications. Mothers with low education levels do not profit from this reform calling for a stronger policy focus on particularly disadvantaged groups in coming years." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Müller, Kai-Uwe, Michael Neumann & Katharina Wrohlich (2018): Labor supply under participation and hours constraints. (DIW-Diskussionspapiere 1758), Berlin, 50 S.

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"The paper extends a static discrete-choice labor supply model by adding participation and hours constraints. We identify restrictions by survey information on the eligibility and search activities of individuals as well as actual and desired hours. This provides for a more robust identification of preferences and constraints. Both, preferences and restrictions are allowed to vary by and are related through observed and unobserved characteristics. We distinguish various restrictions mechanisms: labor demand rationing, working hours norms varying across occupations, and insufficient public childcare on the supply side of the market. The effect of these mechanisms is simulated by relaxing different constraints at a time. We apply the empirical framework to evaluate an in-work benefit for low-paid parents in the German institutional context. The benefit is supposed to increase work incentives for secondary earners. Based on the structural model we are able to disentangle behavioral reactions into the pure incentive effect and the limiting impact of constraints at the intensive and extensive margin. We find that the in-work benefit for parents substantially increases working hours of mothers of young children, especially when they have a low education. Simulating the effects of restrictions shows their substantial impact on employment of mothers with young children." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Müller, Kai-Uwe, Michael Neumann & Katharina Wrohlich (2018): Labor supply under participation and hours constraints. An extended structural model for policy evaluations. (IZA discussion paper 12003), Bonn, 50 S.

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"The paper extends a static discrete-choice labor supply model by adding participation and hours constraints. We identify restrictions by survey information on the eligibility and search activities of individuals as well as actual and desired hours. This provides for a more robust identification of preferences and constraints. Both, preferences and restrictions are allowed to vary by and are related through observed and unobserved characteristics. We distinguish various restrictions mechanisms: labor demand rationing, working hours norms varying across occupations, and insufficient public childcare on the supply side of the market. The effect of these mechanisms is simulated by relaxing different constraints at a time. We apply the empirical frame- work to evaluate an in-work benefit for low-paid parents in the German institutional context. The benefit is supposed to increase work incentives for secondary earners. Based on the structural model we are able to disentangle behavioral reactions into the pure incentive effect and the limiting impact of constraints at the intensive and extensive margin. We find that the in-work benefit for parents substantially increases working hours of mothers of young children, especially when they have a low education. Simulating the effects of restrictions shows their substantial impact on employment of mothers with young children." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Osuna, Victoria (2018): What accounts for the increase in female labor force participation in Spain. In: Economics. The open-access, open-assessment e-journal, Jg. 12, S. 1-26. DOI:10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2018-16

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"Over the last three decades, Spanish female labor force participation (LFP) has tremendously increased, particularly, that of married women. At the same time, the income tax structure, the fiscal treatment of families, policies to reconcile family and work, and the education distribution of married couples have substantially changed. By contrast, the gender wage gap has remained quite stable. In this paper the author investigates the relevance of these factors in accounting for the growth in Spanish married women labor force participation from 1994 to 2008. For that purpose, she uses Kaygusuz' model of household labor market participation, and data from Eurostat to calibrate the model and evaluate its performance. The model successfully accounts for the rise in aggregate female labor force participation, and matches hours worked by males and females. The model is also able to replicate the pattern of female labor force participation by age and education. From this analysis we can conclude that changes in tax rates and in the education distribution are the main factors behind the increase in female LFP during the late nineties, while changes in child care costs and earning profiles are mainly responsible for the subsequent growth in the 2000s." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Papapetrou, Evangelia & Pinelopi Tsalaporta (2018): Is there a case for intergenerational transmission of female labour force participation and educational attainment? Evidence from Greece during the crisis. In: Labour, Jg. 32, H. 4, S. 237-258. DOI:10.1111/labr.12134

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"The paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of female educational attainment and the intergenerational transmission of labour force participation in Greece, in 2011. Results show that parental educational background, and especially maternal, is identified as a key determinant of women's high level of educational achievement. A wife's labour force participation decision is related to her husband's mother's and mother's participation, and even more strongly related to her own level of educational achievement along with the number of children in the household. The labour force participation of the mother of the husband is more important than that of the woman's own mother, indicating a strong transmission of the husband's cultural model. Results point to the presence of heterogeneity of cultural transmission of female labour supply conditional on household income." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Pohl, R. Vincent (2018): Medicaid and the labor supply of single mothers. Implications for health care reform. In: International Economic Review, Jg. 59, H. 3, S. 1283-1313. DOI:10.1111/iere.12304

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"The Medicaid expansions and health insurance subsidies of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) change work incentives for single mothers. To evaluate the employment effects of these policies ex ante, I estimate a model of labor supply and health insurance choice exploiting variation in pre-ACA Medicaid policies. Simulations show that single mothers increase their labor supply at the extensive and intensive margin by 12% and 7%, respectively, uninsurance rates decline by up to 40%, and an average family's welfare improves by 1,600 dollars per year. Health insurance subsidies and not Medicaid expansions mostly drive these effects." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Pollmann-Schult, Matthias (2018): Parenthood and Life Satisfaction in Europe : The Role of Family Policies and Working Time Flexibility. In: European Journal of Population, Jg. 34, H. 3, S. 387-411. DOI:10.1007/s10680-017-9433-5

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"The life satisfaction of parents residing with dependent children varies greatly between countries. This article examines how country-level characteristics -- the provision of family allowances and formal child care, and the level of working time flexibility -- account for these cross-national differences, using data from the European Social Survey from 2004 and 2010 for 27 countries. Parents report greater life satisfaction in countries that offer generous financial benefits to families, high child care provision, and high working time flexibility than parents residing in counties with low levels of support. Results also show that these national contextual factors are associated with lower levels of financial strain and work - life conflicts among parents. These findings suggest that the mitigating effect of family benefits, child care provision, and working time flexibility on the psychosocial and financial burdens of parenthood is a key mechanism in the association between national contextual factors and parental life satisfaction." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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Reichelt, Malte (2018): Frauen stoßen noch immer an die gläserne Decke - trotz betrieblicher Förderung der Chancengleichheit. In: IAB-Forum H. 16.07.2018, o. Sz.

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"Der Lohnunterschied zwischen Männern und Frauen ist in Deutschland noch immer groß. Betriebliche Maßnahmen zur Förderung der Chancengleichheit von Frauen und Männern und formalisierte Personalprozesse sollen dazu beitragen, diese Kluft zu verringern und faire Löhne sicherzustellen. Dabei zeigt sich: Im Niedriglohnbereich wirken diese Maßnahmen zwar durchaus. Sie tragen aber kaum dazu bei, die "gläserne Decke" für Frauen zu durchbrechen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Rodríguez-Planas, Núria, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano & Anastasia Terskaya (2018): Independent thinking and hard working, or caring and well behaved? Short- and long-term impacts of gender identity norms. (IZA discussion paper 11694), Bonn, 40 S.

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"Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we explore the causal effect of gender-identity norms on female teenagers' engagement in risky behaviors relative to boys in the US. To do so, we exploit idiosyncratic variation across adjacent grades within schools in the proportion of high-school peers' mothers who think that important skills for both boys and girls to possess are traditionally masculine ones, such as to think for him or herself or work hard, as opposed to traditionally feminine ones, namely to be well-behaved, popular or help others. We find that a higher proportion of mothers who believe that independent thinking and working hard matter for either gender reduces the gender gap in risky behaviors, traditionally more prevalent among males, both in the short and medium run. We also find evidence of convergence in the labor market in early adulthood. Short- and medium-run results are driven by a reduction in males' engagement in risky behaviors; long-run results are driven by females' higher annual earnings and lower welfare dependency." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Ruby, Sophie & Sylka Scholz (2018): Care, care work and the struggle for a careful world from the perspective of the sociology of masculinities. In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Jg. 43, H. 1, S. 73-83. DOI:10.1007/s11614-018-0284-z

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"Das Thema Fürsorge und Fürsorgearbeit wird in der feministischen Forschung sowohl theoretisch als auch empirisch oftmals mit dem weiblichen Geschlecht verbunden. In unserem Beitrag beschäftigen wir uns mit dem Aspekt, dass im Gegensatz zur feministischen Theorie in der Männlichkeitstheorie Care und Carework noch stark untertheoretisiert sind. So stellt zum Beispiel Vaterschaft und Care im Konzept der hegemonialen Männlichkeit weitgehend eine Leerstelle dar. Herausgearbeitet werden soll, in welcher Hinsicht Männer und die Konstruktion von Männlichkeiten von den aktuellen Umstrukturierungsprozessen vom Fordismus zum Postfordismus betroffen sind. Caring Masculinities gelten in der europäischen Männlichkeitspolitik als zentraler Weg zur Entwicklung nicht-dominanter Männlichkeiten. Erörtert wird, inwieweit es ein brauchbares theoretisches Konstrukt für die Forschung in diesem Feld sein kann." (Autorenreferat, © Springer-Verlag)

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Schiefer, Katrin (2018): Familienleitbilder in Ost- und Westdeutschland. Dimensionierung, Struktur und Determinanten. (Familie und Gesellschaft 34), Würzburg: Ergon, 275 S.

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"Die Studie untersucht die Familienleitbilder in Ost- und Westdeutschland. Es wird angenommen, dass sich aufgrund der Etablierung völlig unterschiedlicher Familienmodelle (male vs. dual breadwinner) während der Teilung Deutschlands auch unterschiedliche Familienvorstellungen entwickelt haben. Diese werden eingehend untersucht, um beantworten zu können, inwiefern sie heute noch in den Köpfen der Bevölkerung verankert sind. Dabei werden folgende Fragen analysiert: Welche Dimensionen von Familienleitbildern bzw. welche Familienleitbildtypen können unterschieden werden? Welche Ost-West-Unterschiede existieren und wie können diese erklärt werden? Die umfassenden empirischen Analysen auf der Basis der Familienleitbildstudie des Bundesinstituts für Bevölkerungsforschung belegen den Fortbestand der unterschiedlichen Familienmodelle in der deutschen Gesellschaft. Wobei sich insbesondere die pro-egalitäre Doppelverdienerfamilie als ostdeutsches Leitbild identifizieren lässt. Dabei scheint es sich trotz der (politischen) Veränderungen nach der Wiedervereinigung um ein stabiles Leitbild zu handeln. Diese Situation dürfte zusätzlich durch die aktuelle Entwicklung der Familienpolitik hinsichtlich einer egalitäreren Aufteilung von Kinderbetreuung und Erwerbsarbeit befördert werden." (Verlagsangaben, IAB-Doku)

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Schmidt, Eva-Maria (2018): Breadwinning as care? The meaning of paid work in mothers' and fathers' constructions of parenting. In: Community, work & family, Jg. 21, H. 4, S. 445-462. DOI:10.1080/13668803.2017.1318112

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"As some scholars have argued for a distinct conceptualisation of breadwinning and for understanding breadwinning as a form of care, this study addresses parents' constructions of breadwinning and its connections to care. It is based on an in-depth interpretive analysis of multiple-perspective, qualitative longitudinal interviews with 22 Austrian mothers and fathers from three points in time during their transition to parenthood. The analysis revealed four different types of breadwinning concepts by considering the jointly constructed meaning of mothers' and fathers' paid work within a parental couple and further relied on Tronto's [(1993). Moral boundaries. A political argument for an ethic of care. New York, NY: Routledge] conceptualisation of care as a four-step process. The results indicate that respondents construct a clear difference between earning money and breadwinning. Additionally, a difference is made between breadwinning and taking care of the family's subsistence, predominantly so for mothers. In conclusion, breadwinning can definitely be considered a form of care and thus a form of involvement in parenting, but it cannot be regarded a form of involvement in caregiving. The holistic picture of parents' joint constructions enabled us to contribute to the existing conceptualisations of breadwinning and of parental involvement, thus providing a novel perspective on matters of gender equality." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Schröder, Martin (2018): How working hours influence the life satisfaction of childless men and women, fathers and mothers in Germany. In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Jg. 47, H. 1, S. 65-81. DOI:10.1515/zfsoz-2018-1004

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"Dieser Artikel zeigt mit Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels, dass Väter - und in geringerem Maße kinderlose Männer und Frauen - am zufriedensten sind, wenn sie Vollzeit oder länger arbeiten. Die Lebenszufriedenheit von Müttern ist dahingegen kaum von ihren Arbeitszeiten beeinflusst. Rationale Einkommensmaximierung kann dieses Muster nicht erklären, da es sogar in Haushalten auftritt, in denen Frauen mehr verdienen als Männer. Die Ergebnisse zeigen sich ebenfalls bei Menschen mit sehr sicheren Arbeitsplätzen und sehr wenig Haus- und Kinderbetreuungsarbeit. Damit widersprechen sie den Prognosen der expansionistischen Rollentheorie, dass Männer und Frauen zufriedener sind, wenn sie beide gleich umfangreich erwerbstätig sind. Für Männer passen die Ergebnisse am besten zu den Vorhersagen der traditionellen Rollentheorie, wonach Menschen zufriedener sind, wenn sie stereotypen Geschlechterrollen entsprechen." (Autorenreferat, © De Gruyter)

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Skora, Thomas (2018): Die räumliche Dimension der Vereinbarkeitsfrage. Wechselwirkungen zwischen Arbeitsweg und Elternschaft. In: Bevölkerungsforschung aktuell, Jg. 39, H. 3, S. 8-11.

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"Bei den gestiegenen Herausforderungen für Eltern, berufliche und familiäre Ziele miteinander vereinbaren zu können, wurde bisher im öffentlichen und wissenschaftlichen Diskurs der Aspekt des täglichen Pendelns zum Arbeitsplatz nur selten berücksichtigt. Diese Forschungslücke greift der Beitrag auf und untersucht, ob und inwieweit große Pendelentfernungen die Entscheidung zur Erstelternschaft beeinflussen. Gleichzeitig wird analysiert, welche Veränderungen die Familiengründung beim Pendel- und Erwerbsverhalten nach sich zieht. So zeigt sich zum Beispiel, dass vor allem westdeutsche Frauen im Zuge der Erstgeburt ihre Pendeldistanz im Durchschnitt reduzieren. Ergänzend dazu gibt der Autor, Dr. Thomas Skora, in einem Interview mit Bevölkerungsforschung Aktuell Auskunft über zentrale Ergebnisse seiner Studie, die zugleich auch seine Dissertation darstellt." (Autorenreferat)

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Stahl, Juliane Frederike & Pia Sophia Schober (2018): Convergence or divergence? Educational discrepancies in work-care arrangements of mothers with young children in Germany. In: Work, employment and society, Jg. 32, H. 4, S. 629-649. DOI:10.1177/0950017017692503

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"This study examines how educational differences in work-care patterns among mothers with young children in Germany changed between 1997 and 2013. Since the mid-2000s, Germany has undergone a paradigm shift in parental leave and childcare policies. Our comparative analysis of East and West Germany provides new evidence on whether the long-standing gender regime differences interact with recent developments of social class inequalities in the changing family policy context. The analyses include pooled binary and multinomial logistic regressions based on 17,764 observations of 8604 children below the age of three years from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). The findings point to growing educational divergence in work-care arrangements in East and West Germany: employment and day-care use increased more strongly among families with medium and highly educated mothers compared to those with low education. This has critical implications for the latter's economic security. The decline in the use of informal childcare options was, however, fairly homogenous." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Stier, Haya, Noah Lewin-Epstein & Michael Braun (2018): Institutional change and women's work patterns along the family life course. In: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Jg. 57, H. October, S. 46-55. DOI:10.1016/j.rssm.2018.07.001

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Tamm, Marcus (2018): Fathers' parental leave-taking, childcare involvement and mothers' labor market participation. (Ruhr economic papers 773), Essen, 23 S.

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"This study analyzes the effect of fathers' parental leave-taking on the time fathers spend with their children and on mothers' and fathers' labor supply. Fathers' leave-taking is highly selective and the identification of causal effects relies on within-father differences in leave-taking for first and higher order children that were triggered by a policy reform promoting more gender equality in leave-taking. Results show that even short periods of fathers' parental leave may have long-lasting effects on fathers' involvement in childcare and housework. Effects on maternal labor supply are also significantly positive but do not persist over time." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Tyrowicz, Joanna, Lucas van der Velde & Karolina Goraus (2018): How (not) to make women work? In: Social science research, Jg. 75, H. September, S. 154-167. DOI:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2018.06.009

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"Women in developed economies have experienced an unparalleled increase in employment rates, to the point that the gap with respect to men was cut in half. This positive trend has often been attributed to changes in the opportunity costs of working (e.g. access to caring facilities) and the opportunity costs of not-working (notably, relative growth in wages in positions more frequently occupied by women, improved educational attainment). Meanwhile, the gender employment gaps were stagnant in transition economies. Admittedly, employment equality among genders was initially much higher in transition countries. We exploit this unique evidence from transition and advanced countries, to analyze the relationship between the institutional environment and the (adjusted) gender employment gaps. We estimate comparable gender employment gaps on nearly 1500 micro databases from over 40 countries. Changes in both types of the opportunity costs exhibited strong correlation with gender employment equality where the gap was larger, i.e. advanced economies. We provide some evidence that these results are not explained away by transition-related phenomena. We argue that the ob-served divergence in time trends reflects a level effect: the lower the gender employment gap, the lower the strength of the relationship between gender employment equality and the opportunity costs of working. An implication from our study is that the existing instruments might be insufficient to further reduce the gender employment gap." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Verniers, Catherine & Jorge Vala (2018): Justifying gender discrimination in the workplace. The mediating role of motherhood myths. In: PLoS one, Jg. 13, H. 1, S. 1-23. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0190657

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"The issue of gender equality in employment has given rise to numerous policies in advanced industrial countries, all aimed at tackling gender discrimination regarding recruitment, salary and promotion. Yet gender inequalities in the workplace persist. The purpose of this research is to document the psychosocial process involved in the persistence of gender discrimination against working women. Drawing on the literature on the justification of discrimination, we hypothesized that the myths according to which women's work threatens children and family life mediates the relationship between sexism and opposition to a mother's career. We tested this hypothesis using the Family and Changing Gender Roles module of the International Social Survey Programme. The dataset contained data collected in 1994 and 2012 from 51632 respondents from 18 countries. Structural equation modellings confirmed the hypothesised mediation. Overall, the findings shed light on how motherhood myths justify the gender structure in countries promoting gender equality." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Vuri, Daniela (2018): Joint custody law and mothers' labor market outcomes. Evidence from the USA. In: Journal of population economics, Jg. 31, H. 4, S. 1203-1237. DOI:10.1007/s00148-017-0680-x

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"This paper studies the economic implications for mothers of the changes in child custody law from maternal preference to joint custody using the 1960 - 2000 Census Public Use Micro Sample (IPUMS). Variation in the timing of the joint custody reform across states provides a natural experimental framework to study the causal effect of shared custody on mothers' economic outcomes. The results show that only single mothers experience a decrease in earnings as a consequence of the adoption of the joint custody law, exposing them to a higher risk of poverty. The paper discusses a possible explanation for these findings, namely that the higher child support payment the mother receives from the non-custodial father in case of joint custody might discourage her from looking for high paid jobs or investing in her career." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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Yu, Haiyue, Jin Cao & Shulong Kang (2018): Fertility cost, intergenerational labor division, and female employment. (CESifo working paper 7293), München, 36 S.

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"China has set to increase the minimum retirement age, to ease the pressure from pension expenditure and the falling labor supply caused by the aging population. However, policy debates have so far neglected the crucial fact that families in China largely rely on retired grandparents for childcare. Using novel and high-quality survey data, we demonstrate that intrafamily downward labor transfer towards childcare significantly increases young females' labor force participation rate and their labor income, and such effects do not exist for males. Furthermore, we show that the positive effects from grandparental childcare are higher for better-educated, urban females with younger children. This paper thus reveals a large, hidden cost in the new retirement policy -- the reduced feasibility of grandparental support, due to postponed retirements, may crowd out productive labor of young females, -- and rationalizes a series of social protection policies to accompany the phase-in of the new retirement scheme." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (2018): Anspruch und Wirklichkeit des ElterngeldPlus und der Partnerschaftsmonate. Antwort der Bundesregierung auf die Kleine Anfrage der Abgeordneten und der Fraktion der FDP (Drucksache 19/3310). (Verhandlungen des Deutschen Bundestages. Drucksachen 19/3533 (23.07.2018)), 11 S.

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"Das Elterngeld mit ElterngeldPlus und Partnerschaftsbonus ist nicht nur die beliebteste Familienleistung, sondern auch der größte Einzelposten im Haushalt des Bundesministeriums für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ). Deshalb begrüßen wir die Flexibilisierung des Elterngeldes durch das ElterngeldPlus und den Partnerschaftsbonus. Leider gibt es in der Umsetzung erhebliche Mängel. Dies wird deutlich anhand des Untersuchungsberichts 'Das Eltergeld- Plus nach zwei Jahren - Befragung der Bezieherinnen und Bezieher im Auftrag des BMFSFJ' des Instituts für Demoskopie Allensbach, der seit wenigen Wochen vorliegt. Auf diesem umfassenden Bericht über das Elterngeld, ElterngeldPlus und den Partnerschaftsbonus basiert zum größten Teil der Bericht der Bundesregierung (Bundestagsdrucksache 19/400). Ergänzt wird der Bericht durch die Quartalsstatistiken zum Elterngeld des Statistischen Bundesamtes." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)

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"Das ElterngeldPlus bietet Müttern und Vätern die Möglichkeit, länger staatliche Unterstützung für die Betreuung ihrer neugeborenen Kinder zu erhalten als durch das herkömmliche Elterngeld. Über drei Viertel der Nutzerinnen und Nutzer sind mit dem ElterngeldPlus vollständig zufrieden (77 Prozent). Das zeigt eine schriftliche Befragung von Müttern und Vätern, die ElterngeldPlus beziehen. Im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend ermittelte das Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach dabei 2017 die Muster bei der Nutzung der Leistung, die wirtschaftliche Lage der Beziehenden und die Auswirkungen des Bezugs auf die Berufstätigkeit der Eltern." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Aaronson, Daniel, Rajeev Dehejia, Andrew Jordan, Cristian Pop-Eleches, Cyrus Samii & Karl Schulze (2017): The effect of fertility on mothers' labor supply over the last two centuries. (IZA discussion paper 10559), Bonn, 102 S.

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"This paper documents the evolving impact of childbearing on the work activity of mothers between 1787 and 2014. It is based on a compiled data set of 429 censuses and surveys, representing 101 countries and 46.9 million mothers, using the International and U.S. IPUMS, the North Atlantic Population Project, and the Demographic and Health Surveys. Using twin births (Rosenzweig and Wolpin 1980) and same gendered children (Angrist and Evans 1998) as instrumental variables, we show three main findings: (1) the effect of fertility on labor supply is small and often indistinguishable from zero at low levels of income and large and negative at higher levels of income; (2) these effects are remarkably consistent both across time looking at the historical time series of currently developed countries and at a contemporary cross section of developing countries; and (3) the results are robust to other instrument variation, different demographic and educational groups, rescaling to account for changes in the base level of labor force participation, and a variety of specification and data decisions. We show that the negative gradient in female labor supply is consistent with a standard labor-leisure model augmented to include a taste for children. In particular, our results appear to be driven by a declining substitution effect to increasing wages that arises from changes in the sectoral and occupational structure of female jobs into formal non-agricultural wage employment as countries develop." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Adda, Jérôme, Christian Dustmann & Katrien Stevens (2017): The career costs of children. In: Journal of Political Economy, Jg. 125, H. 2, S. 293-337. DOI:10.1086/690952

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"We estimate a dynamic life cycle model of labor supply, fertility, and savings, incorporating occupational choices, with specific wage paths and skill atrophy that vary over the career. This allows us to understand the trade-off between occupational choice and desired fertility, as well as sorting both into the labor market and across occupations. We quantify the life cycle career costs associated with children, how they decompose into loss of skills during interruptions, lost earnings opportunities, and selection into more child-friendly occupations. We analyze the long-run effects of policies that encourage fertility and show that they are considerably smaller than short-run effects." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Adema, Willem, Chris Clarke, Valérie Frey, Angela Greulich, Hyunsook Kim, Pia Rattenhuber & Olivier Thévenon (2017): Work/life balance policy in Germany. Promoting equal partnership in families. In: International social security review, Jg. 70, H. 2, S. 31-55. DOI:10.1111/issr.12134

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"Across the OECD, public policies seek to support parents in achieving their desired work/life balance. This article introduces the background to and issues at stake in promoting equal partnerships in families in Germany. Families in Germany face considerable challenges to spending more time together and achieving a more gender-balanced reconciliation of work and family life, as paid work hours for fathers are long on full-time jobs and many women are in part-time jobs. Family policy can play an important role and Germany has made substantial progress in supporting families ahead of and after the birth of a child. Important in this regard are the parental leave reforms of 2007 and 2015 and the extension of childcare supports that better enable fathers and mothers to combine work and family commitments. The article assesses recent developments in family policies in Germany while also drawing from the experiences of countries with longstanding policies to support work/life balance and strengthen gender equality." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Aisenbrey, Silke & Anette Fasang (2017): The interplay of work and family trajectories over the life course. Germany and the United States in comparison. In: American Journal of Sociology, Jg. 122, H. 5, S. 1448-1484. DOI:10.1086/691128

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"This article uses sequence analysis to examine how gender inequality in work-family trajectories unfolds from early adulthood until middle age in two different welfare state contexts. Results based on the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the German National Education Panel Study demonstrate that in Germany, all work-family trajectories are highly gender-specific irrespective of social class. In contrast, patterns of work-family interplay across the life course in the United States are, overall, less gendered, but they differ widely by social class. In fact, work-family patterns characterized by high occupational prestige are fairly equally accessible for men and women. However, women are far more likely than men to experience the joint occurrence of single parenthood and unstable low-prestige work careers in the United States. The authors contribute to the literature by bringing in a longitudinal, process-oriented life course perspective and conceptualizing work-family trajectories as interlocked, multidimensional processes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude, Melanie Khamis & Mutlu Yuksel (2017): Women make houses, women make homes. In: Labour economics, Jg. 49, H. December, S. 145-161. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2017.05.004

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"This paper examines the persistent effects of historical labor market institutions and policies on women's long-term labor market outcomes. We quantify these enduring effects by exploring quasi-experimental variation in Germany's post-World War II mandatory reconstruction policy, which compelled women to work in the rubble removal and reconstruction process. Using difference-in-differences and instrumental variable approaches, we find that mandatory employment during the postwar era generated persistent adverse effects on women's long-term labor market outcomes. An increase in marriage and fertility rates in the postwar era and a physical and mental exhaustion associated with manual labor are some of the direct and indirect channels potentially explaining our results." (Author's abstract, © 2017 Elsevier) ((en))

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Alemann, Annette von, Sandra Beaufaÿs & Beate Kortendiek (Hrsg.) (2017): Alte neue Ungleichheiten? Auflösungen und Neukonfigurationen von Erwerbs- und Familiensphäre. (Gender. Sonderheft 04), Opladen: Budrich, 181 S.

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"Wie sehen die Lebensrealitäten von Frauen und Männern in den Lebensbereichen 'Erwerbssystem' und 'Familie' aus? Welche Interdependenzen und damit möglicherweise einhergehenden Ungleichheiten im Geschlechterverhältnis ergeben sich hieraus? Das Heft präsentiert theoretische und empirische Beiträge, die sich mit der Auflösung und Neubestimmung der gesellschaftlichen Sphären 'Erwerbsarbeit' und 'private Lebensführung' auseinandersetzen. Dabei werden neben der Analyse des Bestehenden auch aktuelle Tendenzen und Perspektiven diskutiert. "(Verlagsangaben, IAB-Doku)

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Andersson Joona, Pernilla (2017): Are mothers of young children more likely to be self-employed? The case of Sweden. In: Review of Economics of the Household, Jg. 15, H. 1, S. 307-333. DOI:10.1007/s11150-016-9349-6

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"Previous studies, mostly from Anglo-Saxon countries, find a positive correlation between the presence of young children in the household and self-employment probabilities among women. This has been seen as an indication of women with young children choosing self-employment as a way of balancing work and family commitments. This paper studies the relationship between children and female self-employment in a country with family friendly policies and a generous welfare system: Sweden. The initial hypothesis is that we will not find evidence of a positive effect of children on self-employment among Swedish women since there are other institutions in place aiming at facilitating the combination of work and family. Using Swedish register data for the period 2004 - 2008 we do, however, find that the presence of young children increases the probability of choosing self-employment also among Swedish women. The effect is strongest for women with very young children, 0 - 3 years of age. These results also hold in a panel data model that takes individual unobserved heterogeneity into account. We also analyze time-use data and find, contrary to what has been found in many other countries, that self-employed women spend more, or as much, time on market work than wage-earning women. This raises doubts about whether women in Sweden chose self-employment as a way of balancing work and family commitments." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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André, Christophe & Hugo Bourrousse (2017): Fighting gender inequality in Sweden. (OECD Economics Department working papers 1395), Paris, 31 S. DOI:10.1787/37b4d789-en

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"Sweden ranks among the best OECD countries in terms of gender equality. Women have a high employment rate, outperform men in education and are well represented in government and parliament. Nevertheless, without further policy measures, achieving parity is still a distant prospect in several areas. Wage differences between genders persist; women are under-represented on private company boards, in senior management positions, in many well-paid and influential professions and among entrepreneurs. Hence, there is scope to make further progress on gender equality. The share of the parental leave reserved for each parent should be increased further, as inequality in leave-taking and long parental leaves harm women's career prospects. Fighting stereotypes in education is necessary to improve women's access to professions where they are under-represented. Government programmes need to promote women's entrepreneurship further. Special attention should also be paid to the integration of foreign-born women, whose employment rate is much lower than for their male counterparts." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Barigozzi, Francesca, Helmuth Cremer & Kerstin Roeder (2017): Women's career choices, social norms and child care policies. (IZA discussion paper 10502), Bonn, 34 S.

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"Our model explains the observed gender-specific patterns of career and child care choices through endogenous social norms. We study how these norms interact with the gender wage gap. We show that via the social norm a couple's child care and career choices impose an externality on other couples, so that the laissez-faire is inefficient. We use our model to study the design and effectiveness of three commonly used policies. We find that child care subsidies and women quotas can be effective tools to mitigate or eliminate the externality. Parental leave, however, may even intensify the externality and decrease welfare." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Bernhardt, Janine (2017): Geschlechter(un)gerechtigkeit: Zur Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf. In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, Jg. 67, H. 30/31, S. 28-33.

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"Während sich viele Mütter mehr Teilhabe am Erwerbsleben wünschen, wollen viele Väter mehr Zeit für Familie haben. Die geschlechts-spezifische Aufteilung von Erwerbs- und Sorgearbeit hat gravierende Folgen für Geschlechterungleichheiten im Lebensverlauf." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Boll, Christina & Andreas Lagemann (2017): Public childcare and maternal labour supply. New evidence for Germany. (HWWI research paper 180), Hamburg, 34 S.

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"This study explores the linkage between nine policy indicators of public childcare provision and maternal employment in terms of employment propensity and (conditional) working hours. We apply different identification strategies with a two-way fixed effects specification with individual and macro-level confounders as well as year and state fixed effects as our most ambitious specification. Based on German microcensus data for waves 2006-2014, our findings show that identification, particularly in terms of state fixed effects, is crucial for the estimated effects. For three indicators however, we are left with significant associations even in the most complex model: For 1-2 year old children cared for by a childminder (3-5 year old children in daycare centres), an increase in the share of children taken care for less than 25 weekly hours on all same-age children attending public care by 10 percentage points is associated with a decrease of maternal employment propensity by 2 (4) percentage points. Thirdly, the existence of a legal claim on childcare from the age of one is associated with an increase in weekly working hours by 4.3 %, compared to a situation without such an entitlement. Compared to medium-level educated mothers, associations with respect to employment propensity are stronger (weaker) for mothers with a high (low) educational level whereas hours associations are weaker for highly skilled mothers. Compared to mothers in couples, single mothers respond less sensitively concerning both the extensive and the intensive margin of employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Boll, Christina & Andreas Lagemann (2017): Elterliche Erwerbstätigkeit und Kinderbetreuung in Hamburg. Entwicklung und Zusammenhänge im Kontext knapper werdender Fachkräfte. Eine Studie im Auftrag des Hamburger Fachkräftenetzwerks, der Handelskammer Hamburg und der "Hamburger Allianz für Familien". (HWWI policy paper 103), Hamburg, 144 S.

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"Hamburg ist seit Einführung des Kita-Gutscheinsystems im August 2003 viele Schritte gegangen, um das Angebot an Kinderbetreuung zu erweitern. Ziel dieser Studie ist es, die Entwicklung der Kinderbetreuung und der elterlichen Erwerbstätigkeit in Hamburg darzustellen und mögliche inhaltliche Zusammenhänge zu untersuchen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Brewer, Mike & Sahra Cattan (2017): Universal pre-school and labor supply of mothers. In: ifo DICE report, Jg. 15, H. 2, S. 8-12.

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Der Ausbau der Vorschulerziehung wurde in den letzten 30 Jahren in vielen Ländern vorangetrieben. Hiermit sollte die kindliche Entwicklung gefördert, soziale Unterschiede ausgeglichen und die Beschäftigung von Müttern gesteigert werden. Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die empirische Literatur zum Zusammenhang von Vorschulerziehung und der Erwerbsbeteiligung von Müttern in OECD-Staaten. Es zeigt sich, dass das Angebot einer subventionierten Vorschulbildung in den untersuchten Ländern sehr unterschiedliche Auswirkungen auf die Erwerbsbeteiligung hat. So kam es in einigen Ländern, wie Spanien, Argentinien und Kanada zur erheblichen Steigerungen der Müttererwerbstätigkeit, während es in den USA und einigen nordischen Ländern nahezu keinen Einfluss hatte. (IAB)

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Bächmann, Ann-Christin & Dörthe Gatermann (2017): The duration of family-related employment interruptions. The role of occupational characteristics. In: Journal for labour market research, Jg. 50, H. 1, S. 143-160., 2017-03-23. DOI:10.1007/s12651-017-0226-4

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"Nach der Geburt eines Kindes unterbrechen viele Frauen ihre Erwerbstätigkeit. Diese familienbedingten Erwerbspausen führen zu Karrierenachteilen, deren Ausmaß entscheidend von der Dauer der Unterbrechung abhängt. Aufgrund der nachhaltigen Bedeutung des Berufs für den gesamten Erwerbsverlauf in Deutschland untersuchen wir, inwieweit berufliche Merkmale diese Dauer beeinflussen. Dabei konzentrieren wir uns auf den Effekt beruflicher Geschlechtersegregation und die damit einhergehenden Berufsmerkmale Lohnniveau und Teilzeitquote und testen gegenläufige Hypothesen: Einerseits sollte das geringere Lohnniveau in frauendominierten Berufen durch niedrigere Opportunitätskosten zu längeren Erwerbsunterbrechungen führen. Andererseits sollten sich hohe Teilzeitquoten in frauendominierten Berufen aufgrund der besseren Vereinbarkeitsmöglichkeiten verkürzend auf Erwerbsunterbrechungen auswirken. Zudem wird untersucht, ob der Frauenanteil selbst darüber hinaus einen eigenständigen Effekt auf die Unterbrechungsdauer aufweist. Wir testen diese Hypothesen anhand von Daten des Nationalen Bildungspanels (Startkohorte 6), die um berufliche Merkmale beruhend auf der Stichprobe der Integrierten Arbeitsmarktbiographien und des Mikrozensus erweitert werden. Wir betrachten dazu Erwerbsunterbrechungen nach der Geburt des ersten Kindes in den Jahren 1992 bis 2010. Anhand von diskreten Ereignisdatenmodellen zeigt sich, dass ein hohes berufliches Lohnniveau die Rückkehr von Müttern auf den Arbeitsmarkt beschleunigt, während der Teilzeitanteil und der Frauenanteil selbst keinen signifikanten Einfluss aufweisen." (Autorenreferat, © Springer-Verlag)

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Cukrowska-Torzewska, Ewa (2017): Cross-country evidence on motherhood employment and wage gaps. The role of work-family policies and their interaction. In: Social Politics, Jg. 24, H. 2, S. 178-220. DOI:10.1093/sp/jxx004

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"This article investigates the effects of work - family policies on motherhood employment and wage gaps. We study twenty-eight European countries, including Central and Eastern European countries. We show that unless the leave period is exceptionally long, enhanced childcare and leave policies help women combine family responsibilities with paid work. The positive effect of leaves is, however, much weaker in countries where childcare is limited. In these countries, improving access to childcare is therefore a more efficient policy than offering extended leaves. Because extended leaves encourage women to stay outside of the labor market, they are found to lead to wage penalties." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Dehos, Fabian & Marie Paul (2017): The effects of after-school programs on maternal employment. (Ruhr economic papers 686), Essen, 40 S. DOI:10.4419/86788796

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"Das vorliegende Diskussionspapier untersucht den Einfluss einer massiven Ausweitung von Ganztagsbetreuung an Grundschulen auf das Arbeitsangebot von Müttern im westdeutschen Kontext einer niedrigen Vollzeitbeschäftigungsquote. Wir verwenden einen Instrumentvariablenansatz und nutzen zur Identifikation des Effektes regionale und zeitliche Variation in der Zuteilung von Fördergeldern eines bundesweiten Investitionsprogramms. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die zusätzlichen Ganztagsschulplätze weder einen Einfluss auf die Anzahl der geleisteten Arbeitsstunden noch auf die Beschäftigungswahrscheinlichkeit von Müttern mit Grundschulkindern haben." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Dlugosz, Stephan, Simon M.S. Lo & Ralf A. Wilke (2017): Competing risks quantile regression at work. In-depth exploration of the role of public child support for the duration of maternity leave. In: Journal of applied statistics, Jg. 44, H. 1, S. 109-122. DOI:10.1080/02664763.2016.1164836

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"Despite its emergence as a frequently used method for the empirical analysis of multivariate data, quantile regression is yet to become a mainstream tool for the analysis of duration data. We present a pioneering empirical study on the grounds of a competing risks quantile regression model. We use large-scale maternity duration data with multiple competing risks derived from German linked social security records to analyse how public policies are related to the length of economic inactivity of young mothers after giving birth. Our results show that the model delivers detailed insights into the distribution of transitions out of maternity leave. It is found that cumulative incidences implied by the quantile regression model differ from those implied by a proportional hazards model. To foster the use of the model, we make an R-package (cmprskQR) available." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Doerr, Annabelle (2017): Back to work: The long-term effects of vocational training for female job returners. (Freiburger Diskussionspapiere zur Ordnungsökonomik 17/02), Freiburg i. Br., 39 S.

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"This paper studies how training vouchers increase the employment prospects of women with interrupted employment histories. Using the population of female job returners who receive a training voucher to participate in training courses and a randomly selected control group from German administrative data, we analyze the effectiveness of training on the employment probability, monthly earnings and job quality. The results suggest that the receipt of a training voucher translates into a higher employment probability and higher monthly earnings. We find an positive impact on the job quality, e.g. the probability to be full-time employed increases significantly. In contrast, the probability to be marginally employed decreases by 5 percentage points in the long-run. We count this as an indicator for employment stability. The investigation of effect heterogeneity reveals some interesting insights regarding the vocational degrees, and the different types of training courses. The effectiveness of vocational training increases with the provided human capital in the courses. Several robustness checks support a causal interpretation of the results and highlight the importance of vocational training for the very special sub-group of female job-returners." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Euteneuer, Matthias (2017): Geschlechtsspezifische Arbeitsteilung. Elterliche Reflexions- und Transformationsprozesse im Kontext biographischer Erfahrungen und sozialem Wandel. In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation, Jg. 37, H. 1, S. 70-85.

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"Familiale Übergänge stellen aus biographischer Perspektive Schlüsselereignisse dar, die maßgeblich zur Herausbildung geschlechterdivergenter Formen familialer Arbeitsteilung beitragen. Gängige familiensoziologische Ansätze erklären dies nur unzureichend, weshalb neuerdings Theorien fokussiert werden, in denen die Vermittlung individueller, gesellschaftlicher sowie kultureller Faktoren im Vordergrund steht. Dieser Beitrag greift Vorstellungen lebenslanger Sozialisation auf und fragt auf der Basis qualitativer Daten danach, wie Arbeitsteilungsmuster im Rahmen familialer Übergänge reflexiv entwickelt und verändert werden. Dabei wird deutlich, dass Arbeitsteilungsmuster nicht isoliert betrachtet werden können, sondern in umfassendere Vorstellungen von Familie (Familienkonzepte) eingebettet sind. Diese entwickeln Eltern u. a. im Rückgriff auf biographische Erfahrungen, die allerdings unter Heranziehung teils widersprüchlicher und sich wandelnder gesellschaftlicher Erwartungen und gegenwärtiger Erfahrungen reflektiert werden. Es werden familienkonzeptbezogene Veränderungsprozesse skizziert, die mit Arbeitsteilungsmustern in Verbindung stehen. Insofern diese keinesfalls gleichförmig verlaufen, erklärt dies zum Teil die Langsamkeit und Widersprüchlichkeit des Wandels der Arbeitsteilung." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Fendel, Tanja & Beate Jochimsen (2017): Child care reforms and labor participation of migrant and native mothers. (IAB-Discussion Paper 09/2017), Nürnberg, 22 S.

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"Wie andere Länder ist auch Deutschland bemüht, die Arbeitsmarktpartizipation von Müttern durch ein erhöhtes Angebot öffentlicher Kinderbetreuung zu steigern. Ob die letzten Kinderbetreuungsreformen von 2013 in dieser Hinsicht erfolgreich sind, ist eine offene Frage. Während von dem eingeführten Betreuungsgeld für Familien, die für ihre Kinder im Alter von 1-2 Jahren keine öffentliche Kinderbetreuung nutzen, negative Effekte zu erwarten sind, sollte der seit 2013 geltende Rechtsanspruch auf öffentliche Betreuung für Kinder des gleichen Alters zu einem Anstieg der Nutzung öffentlicher Kinderbetreuung führen und somit die Rückkehr der Mütter in Beschäftigung beschleunigen. Für die Untersuchung nutzen wir das sozio-ökonomische Panel (SOEP) und führen eine multivariate Analyse im Rahmen eines zweistufigen Difference- in-Difference-Ansatz' durch. Entgegen der Erwartungen finden wir für Mütter, die nach Deutschland migriert sind, in der kurzen Frist keine negativen Effekte der beiden Reformen auf das Arbeitsangebot. Für die gesamte Stichprobe sowie für deutsche Mütter ergeben sich signifikant positive Arbeitsmarktpartizipationseffekte für beide Reformteile zusammen. Ziele der Bundesregierung waren es, Familien dafür zu kompensieren keine öffentliche Kinderbetreuung für ihre jungen Kinder zu nutzen (1. Reformteil) sowie Mütter bei der Rückkehr in den Arbeitsmarkt nach der Geburt des Kindes zu unterstützen (2. Reformteil). In der kurzen Frist scheinen beide Ziele erfüllt worden zu sein." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Gathmann, Christina & Björn Sass (2017): Taxing childcare. Effects on childcare choices, family labor supply and children. (IZA discussion paper 10813), Bonn, 40 S.

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"Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public day-care. Parents respond by reducing public day-care and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce informal childcare indicating that public day-care and informal childcare are complements. Female labor force participation declines and the response is strongest for single parents and low-income households. The short-run effects on cognitive and non-cognitive skills are mixed, but negative for girls. Spillover effects on older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Gehringer, Agnieszka & Stephan Klasen (2017): Labor force participation of women in the EU - what role do family policies play? In: Labour, Jg. 31, H. 1, S. 15-42. DOI:10.1111/labr.12085

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"We empirically study the role of different family policies in affecting women's labor market behavior in the European Union. Women tend to assume more family duties than men and, consequently, often participate less in the labor market. Family policies aim to support families in general while a particular focus is on helping women to reconcile family duties with labor market participation. Their impact, however, is not clear, especially when it comes to different forms of labor market activity. We use a static and dynamic panel econometric framework examining the link between financial support for four types of family policies and labor force participation as well as (part-time and full-time) employment. The results suggest no stable significant impact of expenditures on family policies on overall labor force participation. However, higher spending on family allowance, cash benefits, and daycare benefits appears to promote part-time employment, whereas only spending on parental leave schemes is a significant positive determinant of women's full-time employment." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Giudici, Francesco & Eric Widmer (2017): Gendered occupational shifts in the transition to parenthood. The influence of personal networks. In: Sociology, Jg. 51, H. 2, S. 429-449. DOI:10.1177/0038038515601857

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"This article investigates the influence of personal networks on changes of occupational rates of men and women becoming parents. It discusses and measures the effects of various interconnected dimensions of network structures and compositions, such as density, degree of overlap between partners' networks, geographical distance between network members, and types of relations (family, friendship, or others). A set of longitudinal analyses on 235 couples becoming parents in Switzerland shows that for women, higher density in emotional support triggers a reduction in occupational rates once the first child is born, while for men, a higher density in practical support is associated with an increase of occupational rates, with a resulting increase of gender inequalities in the division of paid labour. Results are valid both for intended changes and for changes observed in the transition, and they hold when controlling for parents' educational level, income and personal values about gender equality." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Hanappi, Doris & Isabella Buber-Ennser (2017): When paid work matters for fertility intentions and subsequent behavior. Evidence from two waves of the Austrian gender and generation survey. In: Comparative Population Studies, Jg. 42, H. 1, S. 245-280. DOI:10.12765/CPoS-2017-15en

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"The anticipated risk of job loss and material insecurity are related to fertility postponement in the same way as unemployment is. Given the sequential nature of fertility and occupational decisions, unfavorable working conditions should be resolved before having children, and result in an increase in people's assignment of importance to paid work when developing their childbearing plans. We aim to demonstrate this link, focusing on perceived employment and material insecurity, the importance assigned to paid work in forming fertility intentions, the construction of fertility intentions, and their realization. Using two waves of the Austrian Generations and Gender Survey, we apply probit regressions to analyze gender variations in the associations between uncertainty conditions, the importance of paid work, fertility intentions and behavior. Results reveal that work and related benefits become salient when they are insecure, and that material insecurity among men discourages childbearing. For women, we find support for the hypothesis that the anticipated risk of job loss inhibits the realization of fertility intentions - intentions which are less likely to be constructed under such conditions from the onset of family planning processes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Heiland, Frank, Joseph Price & Riley Wilson (2017): Maternal employment and time investments in children. In: Review of Economics of the Household, Jg. 15, H. 1, S. 53-67. DOI:10.1007/s11150-014-9278-1

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"We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the American Time Use Survey to estimate the effect of maternal employment on time spent with children. We find that each additional 10 h of maternal work reduces mother - child quality time interaction by about 7.5 % and time reading together by 8 %. This relationship between work and quality time does not vary much based on mothers' education and is robust to the inclusion of family or child fixed effects. There is no evidence that fathers or other relatives fill the gap in time investments due to maternal employment." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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Herbst, Chris M. (2017): Universal child care, maternal employment, and children's long-run outcomes. Evidence from the U.S. Lanham Act of 1940. In: Journal of labor economics, Jg. 35, H. 2, S. 519-564. DOI:10.1086/689478

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"This paper analyzes the US Lanham Act of 1940, a heavily subsidized and universal child care program administered during World War II. I first estimate its impact on maternal employment using a triple-differences model. I find that employment increased substantially following the introduction of the program. I then study children's long-run labor market outcomes. Using Census data from 1970 to 1990, I assess well-being in a life-cycle framework by tracking cohorts of treated individuals throughout their prime working years. Results from difference-in-differences models suggest the program had persistent positive effects, with the largest benefits accruing to the most economically disadvantaged adults." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Hochgürtel, Tim (2017): Familiengründung und -erweiterung im Kohortenvergleich. In: Wirtschaft und Statistik H. 6, S. 60-73.

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"Auf Basis der Zeitreihe der Familien zeigt sich, dass in den vergangenen 25 Jahren die Anzahl der Familien in Deutschland deutlich abgenommen hat. Auf Grundlage solcher Querschnittsbetrachtungen lassen sich jedoch keine Erkenntnisse gewinnen, wie sich das Familiengründungsverhalten sowie die Neigung, eine bestehende Familie zu vergrößern, verändern. Um Rückschlüsse auf mögliche Veränderungen bei der Familiengründung und -erweiterung zwischen Kohorten zu ziehen, erfolgt in diesem Aufsatz eine kohortenorientierte Untersuchung.
Untersucht werden hierbei die kohortenspezifische Neigung Partnerschaften einzugehen, die kohortenspezifische Entscheidung zur Elternschaft sowie zu weiteren Kindern und darüber hinaus der kohortenspezische Anteil von Alleinerziehenden." (Autorenreferat, © Statistisches Bundesamt, Wiesbaden)

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Hotz, V. Joseph, Per Johansson & Arizo Karimi (2017): Parenthood, family friendly firms, and the gender gaps in early work careers. (NBER working paper 24173), Cambrige, Mass., 79 S. DOI:10.3386/w24173

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"We consider the role that firm attributes play in accounting for the divergence in the careers of women and men, with the onset of parenthood. We exploit a matched employer-employee data set from Sweden that provides a rich set of firm and worker attributes. We index firms by their 'family friendliness' and analyze the effect of firm family friendliness on the career gap between mothers and fathers. We find that women disproportionately sort into family friendly firms after first birth and that the wage penalty to motherhood is diminished by being assigned to a more family friendly firm or job. We also find that working in a more family friendly firm or job diminishes the parenthood penalty to labor earnings and makes it easier for mothers to work more hours. At the same time, the smaller wage and income penalties to parents from working in family friendly firms and jobs come at the expense of their occupational progression, especially among mothers, impeding their ability to climb career ladders. Finally, we find that family friendly jobs are more easily substitutable for one another. This latter finding suggests that family friendly firms are able to accommodate the family responsibilities of their workers while still managing to keep their costs low. Our findings also suggest that paid parental leave with job protection - which are features of the Swedish context - may not be sufficient to achieve the balancing of career and family responsibilities, but that the way firms and jobs are structured can play a crucial role in facilitating this balance." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Hupkau, Claudia & Marion Leturcq (2017): Fertility and mothers' labor supply. New evidence using time-to-conception. (CEP discussion paper 1463), London, 52 S.

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"We analyze the impact of children on their mothers' labor market outcomes in the UK. We use time-to-conception of the first child as an exogenous variation in the probability of having more children. We find that having more children decreases the propensity to work in long part-time jobs but does not reduce participation for high- and intermediate-skilled mothers. For low skilled women, the impact on participation is large and negative. We show that the selection into having a second child is positive for low-skilled mothers and negative for high-skilled and intermediate-skilled mothers. Women most attached to the labor market are also those that tend to have only one child among high- and intermediate-skilled women. The reverse is true for low-skilled women: those least attached to the labor market are also less likely to have a second child. This appears to be driven by unobserved attributes that negatively affect both labor market outcomes and the likelihood to remain in a relationship with the father of the first child, which in turn negatively affects the probability to have a second child." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Knoll, Alex (2017): Fragile Lebensentwürfe. Zur Verletzbarkeit erwerbstätiger Mittelschichtsmütter im Spannungsfeld von Beruf, Haushalt, Kindern, Partnerschaft und Zeit für sich. In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation, Jg. 37, H. 3, S. 309-324. DOI:10.3262/ZSE1703309

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"Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der sozialen Verletzbarkeit von erwerbstätigen Müttern aus der ökonomisch abgesicherten Mittelschicht. Nach gängigen Kriterien der klassischen Prekarisierungs- und Vulnerabilitätsforschung wird dieser Personengruppe kein verletzbarer Status attestiert. Das hier verfolgte Argument lautet, dass sie unter bestimmten Bedingungen dennoch als vulnerabel gelten können. Allerdings ist diese Verletzbarkeit nicht bereits gegeben, etwa aufgrund eines prekären Erwerbseinkommens, sondern wird durch den Übergang zur Mutterschaft als ?kritischem Lebensereignis┐ erst hervorgerufen in Form einer Infragestellung oder Bedrohung von Lebensentwürfen, insbesondere dann, wenn mit der Mutterschaft der Wunsch nach beruflicher Karriere verbunden ist. Der Beitrag geht im empirischen Teil anhand von zwei Fallanalysen der Frage nach, mit welchen erwerbs- und alltagsspezifischen Problemlagen sich erwerbstätige Frauen mit Aufstiegsambitionen nach einer Geburt konfrontiert sehen, und wie sie mit diesen umgehen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Lansky, Mark, Jayati Ghosh, Dominique Méda & Uma Rani (Hrsg.) (2017): Women, gender and work. Vol. 2: Social choices and inequalities. Genf: International Labour Organization, 755 S.

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"On many aggregate measures of labour market performance, gender gaps have narrowed steadily across much of the world over recent decades. They have even 'reversed' in some cases. Yet, the statistical picture is not entirely what it seems. The gaps have often narrowed through levelling down, and there are other problems as well: gendered social regulation still powerfully shapes the life choices of women and men, both directly - through explicit socio-cultural norms and constraints - and indirectly, through the interplay of gender roles and identities that typically finds expression in the unequal sharing of unpaid domestic care work and consequent labour market inequalities.
This second volume of Women, gender and work is an invitation to reflect upon the connections between measured labour market outcomes and the real lives people lead, what work means to them, the care work continuum, and the very notion of 'gender equality'. It features some 30 recent articles selected from the International Labour Review, Offering the insights of economists, sociologists and lawyers into a wide range of gender issues and country settings, from Mali to Switzerland, from Jamaica to Malaysia. The diversity of situations, patterns and trends suggests that male-female inequalities might usefully be considered from the perspective of absolute disadvantage. Hence the strong case for a social policy framework that focuses on the improvement of quality of life rather than equalization of women's and men's (often poor) economic performances as an end in itself. What matters is what women (and men) are capable of doing, in freedom, to pursue their own conception of happiness." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Liechti, Lena (2017): Resource-related inequalities in mothers' employment in two family-policy regimes. Evidence from Switzerland and West Germany. In: European Societies, Jg. 19, H. 1, S. 91-112. DOI:10.1080/14616696.2016.1258083

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"Using data from the Swiss Household Panel (1999 - 2012) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (1994 - 2010), this paper compares the impact of mothers' education and her partners' income on maternal employment within the second to the fourth year after childbirth in Switzerland and West Germany. The broadly similar institutional context in the two countries makes for a more controlled and narrower comparison. Around the turn of the millennium, both family-policy regimes did little to foster dual-earner families. However, they differed in their support for families' caring role (familialistic policies), with West Germany being much more generous. It is expected that these familialistic policies widen the educational gap in maternal employment, by selectively encouraging less-educated mothers to stay at home. Moreover, they are also expected to lower the economic pressure on low-income families to have a second income, thus diminishing the impact of partners' income. Results confirm this expectation only within the fourth year after childbirth but not within the years before. This is somehow surprising, as central country-differences with respect to familialistic policies refer to the first three years after childbirth." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Lietzmann, Torsten (2017): The contribution of mothers' employment on their family's chances of ending welfare benefit receipt in Germany. Analysis of a two-stage process. In: Sociological research online, Jg. 22, H. 2, S. 1-21., 2017-01-09. DOI:10.5153/sro.4232

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"Der vorliegende Artikel untersucht, inwieweit die individuelle Erwerbstätigkeit von Müttern zur Beendigung des Bezugs von Leistungen der Grundsicherung in Deutschland beiträgt. Hierbei wird der Prozess von erwerbsbedingten Ausstiegen in zwei Schritte aufgeteilt: erstens der Übergang in Beschäftigung und zweitens die Wahrscheinlichkeit mit der neuen Beschäftigung den Leistungsbezug zu beenden. Die Analyse fokussiert Mütter, da ihr Arbeitsmarktverhalten speziellen Restriktionen unterliegt. Die Analyse identifiziert die Determinanten mit ereignisanalytischen und Probit-Modellen auf Basis administrativer Daten zu Leistungsbezug und Erwerbstätigkeit. Während die Kinderbetreuungsaufgaben im Haushalt - gemessen anhand des Alters des jüngsten Kindes - nur den Prozess der Arbeitsaufnahme beeinflusst, ist die Haushaltsgröße nur relevant für die Wahrscheinlichkeit den Bezug zu beenden. Die Arbeitsmarktressourcen der Mütter unterstützen die Arbeitsmarktintegration, für den Ausstieg aus dem Leistungsbezug ist eher die Art der aufgenommenen Beschäftigung hinsichtlich Arbeitszeit, Beruf und Branche entscheidend." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Lietzmann, Torsten & Claudia Wenzig (2017): Arbeitszeitwünsche und Erwerbstätigkeit von Müttern: Welche Vorstellungen über die Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie bestehen. (IAB-Kurzbericht 10/2017), Nürnberg, 8 S.

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"Erwerbsarbeit sowie Haus- und Erziehungsarbeit sind in Deutschland noch immer ungleich zwischen den Geschlechtern verteilt. Die Erhöhung der Frauen- und Müttererwerbstätigkeit ist als politisches Ziel verankert, um einerseits die finanzielle Situation der Familien zu verbessern und andererseits die finanzielle Eigenständigkeit von Frauen zu stärken. Ob dieses Ziel erreicht werden kann, hängt neben strukturellen Rahmenbedingungen wie etwa Kinderbetreuungsmöglichkeiten auch von den Einstellungen der Betroffenen zu Familie und Beruf ab. Die Autoren gehen der Frage nach, wie die Arbeitszeiten von Männern und Frauen je nach Familienkontext variieren und welche Idealvorstellungen hinsichtlich des Arbeitszeitumfangs bestehen. Um besser abschätzen zu können, ob es bei der Erwerbstätigkeit von Müttern ungenutzte Potenziale gibt, werden in diesem Kurzbericht Einstellungen von Frauen zu Müttererwerbstätigkeit und externer Kinderbetreuung genauer untersucht." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Looze, Jessica (2017): Why do(n't) they leave? Motherhood and women's job mobility. In: Social science research, Jg. 65, H. July, S. 47-59. DOI:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2017.03.004

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"Although the relationship between motherhood and women's labor market exits has received a great deal of popular and empirical attention in recent years, far less is known about the relationship between motherhood and women's job changes. In this paper, I use panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979) (NLSY79) and Cox regression models to examine how motherhood influences the types of job changes and employment exits women make and how this varies by racial-ethnic group. I find preschool-age children are largely immobilizing for white women, as they discourage these women from making the types of voluntary job changes that are often associated with wage growth. No such effects were found for Black or Hispanic women." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Nieuwenhuis, Rense, Ariana Need & Henk Van der Kolk (2017): Is there such a thing as too long childcare leave? In: The international journal of sociology and social policy, Jg. 37, H. 1/2, S. 2-15. DOI:10.1108/IJSSP-07-2015-0074

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"Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to revisit the question whether women's employment is negatively affected in countries with very long periods of childcare leave.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors analyzed data on 192,484 individual women, 305 country-years, and 18-countries, combined with country-level data on childcare, unemployment and service sector size.
Findings
The authors found that in countries with short periods of childcare leave the motherhood-employment gap is smaller than in countries with no childcare leave, while in countries with long periods of childcare leave the motherhood-employment gap is bigger than with short periods of leave.
Originality/value
The authors argued that to correctly answer the long-leave question - the relationship between duration of leave and employment of women should be explicitly hypothesized as being curvilinear; and childcare leave should be expected to affect only mothers, not women without children; testing the long-leave hypothesis requires the use of country-comparative data in which countries are observed repeatedly over time; and is best tested against person-level data." (Author's abstract, © Emerald Group) ((en))

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Oesch, Daniel, Oliver Lipps & Patrick McDonald (2017): The wage penalty for motherhood: Evidence on discrimination from panel data and a survey experiment for Switzerland. In: Demographic Research, Jg. 37, S. 1793-1824. DOI:10.4054/DemRes.2017.37.56

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"Background:
Survey-based research finds a sizeable unexplained wage gap between mothers and nonmothers in affluent countries. The source of this wage gap is unclear: It can stem either from the unobserved effects of motherhood on productivity or from employer discrimination against mothers.
Objective:
This paper opens the black box of the motherhood wage gap by directly measuring discrimination in Switzerland based on two complementary methods.
Methods:
We first use two longitudinal population surveys to establish the size of the wage residual for motherhood. We then run a factorial survey experiment among HR managers (N=714) whom we asked to assign a starting wage to the résumés of fictitious job candidates.
Results:
The population surveys show an unexplained wage penalty per child of 4% to 8%. The factorial survey experiment shows that recruiters assign wages to mothers that are 2% to 3% below those of nonmothers. The wage penalty is larger for younger mothers, 6% for ages 40 and less, but disappears for older mothers or mothers in a blue-collar occupation.
Conclusions:
The motherhood wage gap found in panel studies cannot be reduced to unobserved dimensions of work productivity. The experimental evidence shows that recruiters discriminate against mothers.
Contribution:
Our paper's novelty is to uncover wage discrimination against mothers by combining two different methods. Our national panel surveys mirror the supply side of the labor market and provide us with strong external validity. The factorial survey experiment on recruiters informs on the demand side of the labor market and shows a causal effect." (Author's abstract, © Max-Planck-Institut für demographische Forschung) ((en))

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"Was sind die Hintergründe und entscheidenden Fragen bei der Förderung einer partnerschaftlichen Aufgabenteilung in Familie und Beruf in Deutschland? Dieser Bericht soll die Politikverantwortlichen in Deutschland darin bestärken, die wichtigen seit Mitte der 2000er Jahre eingeleiteten Reformen weiterzuführen, um die Vereinbarkeit von beruflichen und familiären Pflichten für Väter und Mütter zu verbessern. Für die Familien heißt das: 'Mehr Partnerschaftlichkeit wagen'. Die deutschen Erfahrungen werden dabei im internationalen Vergleich untersucht, u.a. mit Blick auf Frankreich und die nordischen Länder, die seit langem eine Politik zur Förderung der Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf sowie zur Stärkung der Geschlechtergleichstellung verfolgen. Der Bericht beginnt mit einem Übersichtskapitel, in dem erklärt wird, warum und wie sich Partnerschaftlichkeit für Familien, Kinder sowie Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft insgesamt auszahlt. Vorgestellt werden aktuelle Daten, Politiktrends sowie detaillierte Analysen der ausschlaggebenden Faktoren für die Aufteilung von bezahlter und unbezahlter Arbeit, einschließlich der Frage, wie mehr Partnerschaftlichkeit in Familie und Beruf zu höheren Geburtenraten führen kann. Außerdem werden Politikmaßnahmen zur Förderung der Partnerschaftlichkeit untersucht, wobei sich der Blick sowohl auf nach wie vor bestehende Unzulänglichkeiten als auch auf die Fortschritte richtet, die mit den seit Mitte der 2000er Jahre eingeleiteten Reformen erzielt wurden. Der Bericht enthält eine Reihe von Politikempfehlungen, deren Ziel es ist, Eltern eine ausgewogenere Aufteilung beruflicher und familiärer Pflichten zu ermöglichen.
Kapitel 1 Dare to Share: Deutschlands Weg zur Partnerschaftlichkeit in Familie und Beruf
Kapitel 2 Partnerschaft, Familienstruktur und Arbeitsteilung: Deutschland im OECD-Vergleich
Kapitel 3 Politikmaßnahmen zur Förderung der Partnerschaftlichkeit in Deutschland
Kapitel 4 Verteilung von Erwerbsarbeit und Erwerbseinkommen in Paaren mit Kindern
Kapitel 5 Aufteilung der unbezahlten Arbeit zwischen den Partnern
Kapitel 6 Partnerschaftlichkeit und Geburtenverhalten in Deutschland und Frankreich" (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Raute, Anna (2017): Can financial incentives reduce the baby gap? Evidence from a reform in maternity leave benefits. (CESifo working paper 6652), München, 54 S.

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"To assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby gap between high educated (high earning) and low educated (low earning) women, I exploit a major maternity leave benefit reform in Germany that considerably increases the financial incentives for higher educated and higher earning women to have a child. In particular, I use the large differential changes in maternity leave benefits across education and income groups to estimate the effects on fertility up to 5 years post reform. In addition to demonstrating an up to 22% increase in the fertility of tertiary educated versus low educated women, I find a positive, statistically significant effect of increased benefits on fertility, driven mainly by women at the middle and upper end of the education and income distributions. Overall, the results suggest that earnings-dependent maternity leave benefits, which compensate women commensurate with their opportunity cost of childbearing, could successfully reduce the fertility rate disparity related to mothers' education and earnings." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Rossin-Slater, Maya (2017): Maternity and family leave policy. (IZA discussion paper 10500), Bonn, 27 S.

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"Maternity and family leave policies enable mothers to take time off work to prepare for and recover from childbirth and to care for their new children. While there is substantial variation in the details of these policies around the world, the existing research yields the following general conclusions. First, despite important barriers to the take-up of leave, both the implementation of new programs and extensions of existing ones increase leave-taking rates among new parents. Second, leave entitlements less than one year in length can improve job continuity for women and increase their employment rates several years after childbirth; longer leaves can negatively influence women's earnings, employment, and career advancement. Third, extensions in existing paid leave policies have no impact on measures of child well-being, but the introduction of short paid and unpaid leave programs can improve children's short- and long-term outcomes. Fourth, while more research is needed, the current evidence shows minimal impacts of existing U.S. state-level programs on employer-level outcomes such as employee productivity, morale, profitability, turnover rates, or the total wage bill." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Schleutker, Elina (2017): Women's work-life preferences. Reconceptualization and cross-country description over time. In: European Societies, Jg. 19, H. 3, S. 292-312. DOI:10.1080/14616696.2017.1290266

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"According to Hakim's preference theory, women can be divided into three groups based on their work - family preferences: home-centered, adaptive and work-centered. Here it is argued that Hakim's conceptualization of the adaptive women is unsatisfactory, as it does not take into consideration how the adaptive women want to combine work and family. The paper offers a reconceptualization of the adaptive group. Based on when women want to return to employment after childbirth, and how many hours they would like to work, three types of adaptive women are distinguished: the home-oriented adaptive women, the truly adaptive women and the work-oriented adaptive women. To demonstrate the fruitfulness of the reconceptualization, a cross-sectional descriptive study of women's preferences over time is conducted by employing data from International Social Survey Programme." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Schober, Pia & Christian Schmitt (2017): Day-care availability, maternal employment and satisfaction of parents. Evidence from cultural and policy variations in Germany. In: Journal of European social policy, Jg. 27, H. 5, S. 433-446. DOI:10.1177/0958928716688264

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"This study investigates how the availability and expansion of childcare services for children aged under 3 years relate to the subjective wellbeing of German mothers and fathers. It extends previous studies by examining in more detail the relationship between day-care availability and use, maternal employment and parental subjective wellbeing during early childhood in a country with expanding childcare services and varying work - care cultures. The empirical analysis links annual day-care attendance rates at the county-level to individual-level data of the Socio-Economic Panel Study for 2007 - 2012 and the 'Families in Germany' Study for 2010 - 2012. We apply fixed-effects panel models to samples of 2002 couples and 376 lone mothers. We find some evidence of a positive effect of the day-care expansion only on satisfaction with family life for lone mothers and for full-time employed partnered mothers. Transitions to full-time employment are associated with reductions in subjective wellbeing irrespective of local day-care availability among partnered mothers in West Germany but not in East Germany. These results suggest that varying work - care cultures between East and West Germany are more important moderators of the relationship between maternal employment and satisfaction than short-term regional expansions of childcare services." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Schulz, Florian & Henriette Engelhardt (2017): The development, educational stratification and decomposition of mothers' and fathers' childcare time in Germany. An update for 2001-2013. In: Zeitschrift für Familienforschung, Jg. 29, H. 3, S. 277-297. DOI:10.3224/zff.v29i3.02

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"Diese Studie aktualisiert das empirische Wissen über die Entwicklung, die Bildungsstratifizierung und die Dekomposition der Zeitverwendung von Müttern und Vätern für Kinderbetreuung mit den aktuellen Zeitbudgetdaten für Deutschland. Auf Basis der der letzten beiden Erhebungen der Deutschen Zeitverwendungsstudie 2001/2002 und 2012/2013 werden die Zeitbudgets für die Gesamtzeit für Kinderbetreuung sowie sechs Einzeltätigkeiten mit OLS-Regressionen und Oaxaca- Dekompositionen untersucht. Die Studie zeigt, dass die Zeit für Kinderbetreuung von Müttern und Vätern zwischen 2001 und 2013 angestiegen ist, es einen Bildungsgradienten für Vorlesen gibt und signifikante Veränderungen in den Zeitbudgets nicht auf Kompositionsveränderung der Bevölkerung zurückgeführt werden können. Insgesamt belegt die Studie weniger die Dynamik als vielmehr die Stabilität und die geringe Bildungsdifferenzierung der Zeitverwendung für Kinderbetreuung. Darüber hinaus wird gezeigt, dass die Veränderungen in der Gesamtzeit für Kinderbetreuung nicht auf proportionale Veränderungen in allen, sondern nur auf Veränderungen in wenigen Einzeltätigkeiten zurückgeführt werden können." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Schwab, Klaus, Richard Samans, Saadia Zahidi, Till Alexander Leopold, Vesselina Ratcheva, Ricardo Hausmann & Laura D¿Andrea Tyson (2017): The global gender gap report 2017. Insight report. (The global gender gap report), Cologny/Geneva, 349 S.

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"Gender parity is fundamental to whether and how economies and societies thrive. Ensuring the full development and appropriate deployment of half of the world's total talent pool has a vast bearing on the growth, competitiveness and future-readiness of economies and businesses worldwide. The Global Gender Gap Report benchmarks 144 countries on their progress towards gender parity across four thematic dimensions: Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment. In addition, this year's edition also analyses the dynamics of gender gaps across industry talent pools and occupations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Stadler, Bettina & Ingrid Mairhuber (2017): Arbeitszeiten von Paaren: Aktuelle Verteilungen und Arbeitszeitwünsche. (FORBA-Forschungsbericht 2017,03), Wien, 66 S.

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"Mit dem hier präsentierten Projekt wird der Blick auf Paare gerichtet und untersucht, wie die Verteilung der Erwerbs-Arbeitszeit zwischen den Ehe- bzw. LebenspartnerInnen mit und ohne Kinder gestaltet ist und ob sich diese in der Zeit von 2005 bis 2015 verändert hat. Kommen reduzierte Arbeitszeiten, konkret weniger geleistete Überstunden von Männern, Frauen zugute? D.h., haben Frauen dadurch die Möglichkeit, sich stärker in der Erwerbsarbeit zu engagieren und ihre Erwerbsarbeitszeiten auszuweiten? Oder können keine Entwicklungen in diese Richtung beobachtet werden? Diese und weitere Fragen werden in den folgenden Ausführungen untersucht." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)

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Struffolino, Emanuela & Laura Bernardi (2017): Vulnerabilität alleinerziehender Mütter in der Schweiz aus einer Lebensverlaufsperspektive. In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation, Jg. 37, H. 2, S. 123-141. DOI:10.3262/ZSE1702123

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"Der vorliegende Aufsatz soll zum Verständnis der Vulnerabilität alleinerziehender Mütter in der Schweiz beitragen. Vulnerabilität wird hier als dynamischer Prozess verstanden, in dem Individuen soziale Abstiege und den Verlust von Ressourcen erfahren, in dessen Verlauf sie aber auch aufsteigen und ein Mehr an Kontrolle über ihr Leben erlangen können. Alleinerziehende Mütter bilden in Bezug auf ihre soziale Herkunft und ihre sozialen Ressourcen eine zunehmend heterogene Bevölkerungsgruppe, weshalb sich für die Definition und Messung ihrer relativen Nachteile neue Herausforderungen stellen. Die Situation in der Schweiz ist dabei ein interessanter Fall, da es hier an politischen Maßnahmen zur wirkungsvollen Förderung der Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf fehlt. Die Autorinnen stellen dar, wie der Übergang zur Ein-Elternschaft die Belastungen für jene Mütter erhöhen kann, die ihre gestiegene Verantwortung in Familie und Beruf alleine tragen. Zur Beschreibung der Gründe für die Entstehung von Vulnerabilität in verschiedenen Lebensbereichen alleinerziehender Mütter in der Schweiz ziehen die Autorinnen Daten aus unterschiedlichen Quellen heran." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Tulk, Linda, Sylvie Montreuil, Tamarah Pierce & Michel Pépin (2017): Does parental work affect the psychological well-being and educational success of adolescents? In: Community, work & family, Jg. 19, H. 1, S. 80-102. DOI:10.1080/13668803.2014.1002830

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"The primary goal of this exploratory study was to observe the presence or absence of empirical associations between various parental working conditions, family and, ultimately, the psychological well-being and educational success of young adolescents in Canada. A structural equation model analysis was undertaken from a large Canadian database. This research project used a sub-sample from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, regrouping 3447 young adolescents, aged 12-15, who generally attend high school. The analysis confirmed the suitability of the model for explaining the trajectory of the hypothesized associations. More specifically, the results confirmed that parental working conditions have an indirect effect on the psychological well-being and educational success of adolescents, through family environment, parenting and the quality of the parent - adolescent relationship. The practical implications of this study are discussed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Zanella, Giulio (2017): How does grandparent childcare affect labor supply? Childcare provided by grandparents helps young working mothers, but reduces the labor supply of older women. (IZA world of labor 337), Bonn, 9 S. DOI:10.15185/izawol.337

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"Older people in developed countries are living longer and healthier lives. A prolonged and healthy mature period of life is often associated with continued and active participation in the labor market. At the same time, active grandparents can offer their working offspring a free, flexible, and reliable source of childcare. However, while grandparent-provided childcare helps young parents (especially young mothers) overcome the negative effects of child rearing on their labor market participation, it can sometimes conflict with the objective of providing additional income through employment for older workers, most notably older women." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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"Das Gutachten knüpft an die umfassende Analyse der Gleichstellungssituation in Deutschland an, die im Ersten Gleichstellungsbericht geleistet wurde. Insbesondere bedeutet dies, dass sich auch das vorliegende Gutachten an einer Lebensverlaufsperspektive orientiert, um den Stand und mögliche Handlungsansätze für die Gleichstellungspolitik zu untersuchen. In den letzten fünf Jahren haben sich die Erwerbsbiografien und damit auch die Lebensverläufe allerdings weiter ausdifferenziert. Armutsgefährdete Alleinerziehende (vor allem Frauen), (prekäre) Selbstständige, die mit ihrem Unternehmen beständig um das wirtschaftliche Überleben kämpfen, und Menschen, die Angehörige pflegen, werden immer stärker zu Risikogruppen. Das Gutachten nimmt außerdem in den Blick, dass die Folgen der Digitalisierung zunehmend alle Lebens- und Arbeitsbereiche durchdringen. Das vorliegende Gutachten greift Empfehlungen des Ersten Gleichstellungsberichts auf, um sie weiterzuentwickeln und für die aktuelle gesellschaftliche Situation zu konkretisieren. Dabei war zu berücksichtigen, welche politischen und gesetzlichen Entwicklungen es seither auf maßgeblichen Feldern gegeben hat. Dieses Gutachten soll zwar nicht die Umsetzung der Empfehlungen des Ersten Gleichstellungsberichts systematisch erfassen und auswerten. Es berücksichtigt in seinen Analysen und Empfehlungen aber, dass zwischenzeitlich gleichstellungspolitisch relevante Maßnahmen neu eingeführt wurden, insbesondere das ElterngeldPlus, die Familienpflegezeit, das Pflegeunterstützungsgeld, das Gesetz für die gleichberechtigte Teilhabe von Frauen und Männern an Führungspositionen in der Privatwirtschaft und im öffentlichen Dienst (FüPoG) und das Mindestlohngesetz (MiLoG). Erste Schritte zu einem Gesetz für mehr Lohngerechtigkeit zwischen Frauen und Männern sind unternommen worden; zum Zeitpunkt des Abschlusses dieses Gutachtens lag dem Bundestag allerdings noch kein Gesetzentwurf vor. Auch die gleichstellungspolitisch relevanten Befunde der Gesamtevaluation familienpolitischer Leistungen aus dem Jahr 2014 werden im vorliegenden Gutachten berücksichtigt. In Anknüpfung an die Lebensverlaufsperspektive konzentriert sich das Sachverständigengutachten auf die gleichstellungsorientierte Gestaltung von Erwerbs- und Sorgearbeit. Diese Schwerpunktsetzung wird im folgenden Kapitel B ausführlich begründet und in ein Verhältnis zu weiteren gleichstellungspolitischen Zielen gesetzt." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)

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Adema, Willem, Chris Clarke & Valérie Frey (2016): Paid parental leave and other supports for parents with young children. The United States in international comparison. In: International social security review, Jg. 69, H. 2, S. 29-51. DOI:10.1111/issr.12100

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"Die Vereinigten Staaten stehen mit ihrer Politik für Familien und Frauen am Scheideweg. Gegenwärtig bieten die Vereinigten Staaten eine grundlegende Unterstützung für Kinder, Väter und Mütter in Form einer unbezahlten Elternzeit, kinderbezogener Steuererleichterungen und einer beschränkten öffentlichen Kinderbetreuung. Andere Mitgliedsstaaten der Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (OECD) hingegen unterstützen Familien durch bezahlte Elternzeit und umfassende Investitionen in Kleinkinder und Kinder. Die möglichen Vorteile eines Ausbaus solcher Strategien in den Vereinigten Staaten sind enorm. Bezahlte Elternzeit und subventionierte Kinderbetreuung können dazu beitragen, dass mehr Frauen in die Arbeitsbevölkerung eintreten und dort bleiben, das Wirtschaftswachstum gestützt wird, die Kinder kognitive und gesundheitliche Vorteile haben und die Eltern die Möglichkeit erhalten, ihre eigene Aufteilung von Arbeit und Privatleben zu wählen. Die Vereinigten Staaten sind hinsichtlich vieler sozialer und wirtschaftlicher Indikatoren gegenüber dem Rest der OECD ins Hintertreffen geraten, da sie nicht angemessen in Kinder, Väter und Mütter investiert haben. Angesichts der bedeutenden Vorteile dieser Familienbeihilfen konzentriert sich dieser Artikel auf die Frage der Vereinbarung von Arbeit und Kinderbetreuung für Familien mit kleinen Kindern und insbesondere auf Strategien der bezahlten Elternzeit innerhalb der OECD und der Vereinigten Staaten." (Autorenreferat, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons)

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Baranowska-Rataj, Anna & Anna Matysiak (2016): The causal effects of the number of children on female employment. Do European institutional and gender conditions matter? In: Journal of labor research, Jg. 37, H. 3, S. 343-367. DOI:10.1007/s12122-016-9231-6

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"This paper contributes to the discussion on the effects of the number of children on female employment in Europe. Most previous research has either (1) compared these effects across countries, assuming an exogeneity of family size; or (2) used methods that dealt with endogeneity of family size, but that focused on single countries. We combine these two approaches by taking a cross-country comparative perspective and applying quasi-experimental methods. We use instrumental variable models, with multiple births as instruments, and the harmonized data from the European Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). We examine the cross-country variation in the effects of family size on maternal employment across groups of European countries with different welfare state regimes. This step gives us an opportunity to investigate whether the revealed crosscountry differences in the magnitude of the effect of the family size on maternal employment can be attributed to the diversity of European institutional arrangements, as well as the cultural and the structural conditions for combining work and family duties." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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Bauer, Thomas K., Florian Beyer, Julia Bredtmann, Sebastian Otten, Julia Piel, Katja Sabisch & Magdalena A. Stroka (2016): Die Auswirkungen von Familienarbeit auf die Arbeitsmarktpartizipation, das (Alters-)Einkommen und die Gesundheit von Frauen. Eine empirische Analyse. (RWI-Materialien 102), Essen, 67 S.

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"Nicht zuletzt aufgrund des zu erwartenden Fachkräftemangels in Deutschland ist eine fortlaufende Analyse der Faktoren, die einer Erhöhung der Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen entgegenstehen, wirtschafts- und gesellschaftspolitisch zwingend erforderlich. Eine von den politischen Akteuren weniger beachtete und in der Öffentlichkeit seltener diskutierte jedoch ungleich bedeutendere Ursache für die geringere Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen ist deren höhere Belastung durch 'Familienarbeit'. Als Familienarbeit werden unbezahlte Tätigkeiten im Haushalt, wie die Erziehung von Kindern oder die Pflege Angehöriger, bezeichnet. Das interdisziplinär angelegte empirische Forschungsprojekt versucht, auf Basis soziologischer und ökonomischer Theorien zur Organisation von Familien und unter Verwendung einer Vielfalt empirischer Methoden und verschiedener innovativer Datensätze (i) belastbare empirische Evidenz zu dem Ausmaß geschlechterspezifischer Unterschiede hinsichtlich des Engagements in unbezahlter Arbeit zu generieren und (ii) die Konsequenzen einer höheren Belastung mit Familienarbeit für die Arbeitsmarktpartizipation, das Einkommen, die Alterssicherung und die Gesundheit der Betroffenen zu analysieren." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)