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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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Strawinski, Pawel, Aleksandra Majchrowska & Paulina Broniatowska (2018): Occupational segregation and wage differences. The case of Poland. In: International journal of manpower, Jg. 39, H. 3, S. 378-397. DOI:10.1108/IJM-07-2016-0141

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"Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relation between occupational segregation and the gender wage differences using data on three-digit occupational level of classification. The authors examine whether a statistically significant relation between the share of men in employment and the size of the unexplained part of the gender wage gap exists.
Design/methodology/approach: Traditional Oaxaca (1973) - Blinder (1973) decomposition is performed to examine the differences in the gender wage gaps among minor occupational groups. Two types of reweighted decomposition - based on the parametric estimate of the propensity score and non-parametric proposition presented by Barsky et al. (2002) - are used as the robustness check. The analysis is based on individual data available from Poland.
Findings: The results indicate no strong relation between occupational segregation and the size of unexplained differences in wages. The unexplained wage differences are the smallest in strongly female-dominated and mixed occupations; the highest are observed in male-dominated occupations. However, they are probably to a large extent the result of other, difficult to include in the econometric model, factors rather than the effects of wage discrimination: differences in the psychophysical conditions of men and women, cultural background, tradition or habits. The failure to take them into account may result in over-interpreting the unexplained parts as gender discrimination.
Research limitations/implications: The highest accuracy of the estimated gender wage gap is obtained for the occupational groups with a similar proportion of men and women in employment. In other male- or female-dominated groups, the size of the estimated gender wage gaps depends on the estimation method used.
Practical implications: The results suggest that decreasing the degree of segregation of men and women in different occupations could reduce the wage differences between them, as the wage discrimination in gender balanced occupations is the smallest.
Originality/value: To the best of the authors' knowledge, this study is one of the few conducted at such a disaggregated level of occupations, and one of few studies focused on Central and Eastern European countries and the first one for Poland." (Author's abstract, © Emerald Group) ((en))

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Sundsbø, Astrid Ouahyb (2018): Parenting support in Europe's North. How is it understood and evaluated in research? In: Social policy and society, Jg. 17, H. 3, S. 431-441. DOI:10.1017/S1474746418000027

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"Parenting support in the Nordic countries builds upon a century-long tradition of controls and services run by municipalities and county councils (Hagelund, 2008; Danielsen and Mühleisen, 2009; Lundqvist, 2015). However, with the introduction of structured parental guidance programmes from the 1990s onward (mainly based on research insights and experiences from the US and UK), new elements have been added to the former policy legacy (Lundqvist, 2015)." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Sánchez-Marcos, Virginia & Carlos Bethencourt (2018): The effect of public pensions on women's labor market participation over a full life cycle. In: Quantitative economics, Jg. 9, H. 2, S. 707-733. DOI:10.3982/QE667

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"Spousal and survivor pensions are two important provisions of the US Social Security pension system. In this paper, we assess the impact of these benefits on the female employment rate in the context of a full life-cycle model in which households decide on female labor supply and savings. One important aspect of our model is that we allow for returns to labor market experience so that participation decisions affect not only current earnings and Social Security pension eligibility but also future earnings. We quantify the effect on female labor supply and on household inequality of (i) removing spousal benefit, (ii) removing both spousal and survivor pension benefits, and (iii) extending from 35 to 40 the number of periods of the working career that are considered when calculating the retired worker's pension. We find that reforms (i) and (ii) significantly increase female employment throughout the life cycle, whereas reform (iii) has a very mild effect. The effect of (ii) on income inequality in older household is large, whereas the effect on consumption inequality is small. All three reforms have substantial effects on Social Security expenditure and fiscal revenues." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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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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Tocchioni, Valentina (2018): Exploring the childless universe. Profiles of women and men without children in Italy. In: Demographic Research, Jg. 38, S. 451-470. DOI:10.4054/DemRes.2018.38.19

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"Background: In recent decades, several Western countries have experienced a large increase in childlessness. Relatively little is known about the profiles of childless women in Italy, and virtually nothing about childless men.
Objective: The aim of this paper is to address this gap by identifying typical life course trajectories of childless women and men in Italy from a gender perspective and in a cross-cohort comparison.
Methods: In order to identify typical patterns I adopted a holistic perspective, applying sequence analysis to data on partnership, employment, and education for a sample of childless women and men derived from the 2009 Italian Family and Social Subjects survey.
Results: Six profiles each were identified for childless women and men, which illustrate the marked heterogeneity of the childless universe. Four out of the six were similar for both genders. Importantly, the life course of the childless evolved across cohorts, with an increasing proportion of employed women and single men in the youngest generations.
Contribution: This work sheds light on differences in childlessness in Italy by gender and generation. It confirms the role of factors such as not having a partner, and adds new empirical findings such as the pattern of disadvantaged, less-educated women and that of highly educated men with a history of unstable employment." (Author's abstract, © Max-Planck-Institut für demographische Forschung) ((en))

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Tophoven, Silke, Veronika Kretschmer, Richard Peter, Anita Tisch & Jean-Baptist du Prel (2018): Erwerbsverlauf und Gesundheit älterer weiblicher Beschäftigter. (IAB-Bibliothek 371), Bielefeld: Bertelsmann, 214 S. DOI:10.3278/300988w

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"Die Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen im höheren Erwerbsalter ist in Deutschland in den letzten Jahren deutlich gestiegen. Um sie auch künftig zu ermöglichen, ist das Wissen um die spezifische Situation dieser Gruppe, grade in Bezug auf gesundheitliche Aspekte, besonders wichtig. Die Dissertation bietet einen Überblick zu den Erwerbsverläufen und aktuellen Erwerbs- und Gesundheitssituationen älterer weiblicher Beschäftigter und untersucht die Zusammenhänge zwischen
- verschiedenen Erwerbsverlaufstypen und bisheriger Alterssicherung
- prekärer Beschäftigung und funktionaler Gesundheit
- der Tätigkeit in geschlechtersegregierten Berufen und depressiven Symptomen sowie
- Veränderungen der Arbeitsbedingungen und psychischer Gesundheit." (Verlagsangaben, IAB-Doku)

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Tyrowicz, Joanna, Lucas van der Velde & Karolina Goraus (2018): How (not) to make women work? (IZA discussion paper 11639), Bonn, 50 S.

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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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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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Tyrowicz, Joanna, Lucas van der Velde & Irene van Staveren (2018): Does age exacerbate the gender-wage gap? New method and evidence from Germany, 1984-2014. In: Feminist economics, Jg. 24, H. 4, S. 108-130. DOI:10.1080/13545701.2018.1503418

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"Given theoretical premises, the gender-wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary according to age. This study adapts John DiNardo, Nicole M. Fortin, and Thomas Lemieux's (1996) semi-parametric technique to disentangle year, cohort, and age effects in adjusted gender-wage gaps. The study relies on a long panel of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) covering 1984-2015. The results indicate that, in Germany, the gender-wage gap increases over a birth cohort's lifetime, including in the post-reproductive age for some birth cohorts. The results suggest that age and gender are overlapping handicaps in the labor market and call for a policy intervention." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Verick, Sher (2018): Female labor force participation and development. Improving outcomes for women takes more than raising labor force participation - good jobs are important too. (IZA world of labor 87), Bonn, 11 S. DOI:10.15185/izawol.87.v2

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"Der Zusammenhang zwischen der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung eines Landes und der Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen wird durch den Verlauf von Wirtschaftswachstum und Bildungserwerb, durch Geburtenraten, soziale Normen und andere Faktoren geprägt. Die Erwerbsquote zeichnet nur ein Teilbild der Frauenbeschäftigung und lässt Aussagen über ihre Qualität nur eingeschränkt zu. Deren Verbesserung kann nur unter Berücksichtigung von angebots- und nachfrageseitigen Aspekten erreicht werden. Ein erleichterter Zugang zu sekundärer und höherer Bildung ist dabei entscheidend, muss aber mit der Schaffung von passenden Jobs für Frauen einhergehen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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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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Vignoli, Daniele, Anna Matysiak, Marta Styrc & Valentina Tocchioni (2018): The positive impact of women's employment on divorce. Context, selection, or anticipation? In: Demographic Research, Jg. 38, S. 1059-1110. DOI:10.4054/DemRes.2018.38.37

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"Background: Empirical findings regarding the impact of women's employment on divorce are mixed. One explanation is that the effects are moderated by the country context. Another is that previous studies have failed to account for unobserved factors that introduce bias into the estimated effects. Studies also rarely consider possible anticipatory employment behavior on the part of women who are thinking of divorce.
Objective: The aim of this study is to deepen our understanding of the nexus between women's employment and divorce in a comparative perspective.
Methods: We adopt an analytical strategy that allows us to account for selection and anticipation mechanisms. Namely, we estimate marital disruption and employment jointly, and monitor the timing of divorce after employment entry. This approach is implemented using micro-level data for Germany, Hungary, Italy, and Poland.
Results: We find that women's employment facilitates marital disruption in Italy and Poland, but not in Germany and Hungary. We also show that selection effects play out differently in different contexts. Finally, we notice traces of anticipatory behavior in Italy.
Contribution: We conclude that women's employment is less likely to be linked to divorce in countries with easier access to divorce and in countries with more generous financial support for families and single mothers, which in turn makes women less reliant on the market. With this study we hope to encourage future researchers to consider the potentially distorting effects of selection and anticipation strategies in (comparative) divorce research." (Author's abstract, © Max-Planck-Institut für demographische Forschung) ((en))

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Vos, Duco de, Evert Meijers & Maarten van Ham (2018): Working from home and the willingness to accept a longer commute. In: The annals of regional science, Jg. 61, H. 2, S. 375-398. DOI:10.1007/s00168-018-0873-6

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"It is generally found that workers are more inclined to accept a job that is located farther away from home if they have the ability to work from home one day a week or more (telecommuting). Such findings inform us about the effectiveness of telecommuting policies that try to alleviate congestion and transport-related emissions, but they also stress that the geography of labour markets is changing due to information technology. We argue that estimates of the effect of working from home on commuting time may be biased because of sorting based on residential- and commuting preferences. In this paper we investigate the relationship between telecommuting and commuting time, controlling for preference-based sorting. We use 7 waves of data from the Dutch Labour Supply Panel and show that on average telecommuters have higher marginal cost of one-way commuting time, compared to non-telecommuters. We estimate the effect of telecommuting on commuting time using a fixed effects approach, and we show that preference-based sorting biases cross-sectional results upwards. This suggests that the bias due to sorting based on residential preferences is strongest. Working from home allows people to accept 5% longer commuting times on average, and every additional 8 h of working from home are associated with 3.5% longer commuting times." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((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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Wang, Jing, Morley Gunderson & David Wicks (2018): The earnings effect of sexual orientation. British evidence from worker-firm matched data. In: BJIR, Jg. 56, H. 4, S. 744-769. DOI:10.1111/bjir.12304

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"Using the British Workplace Employment Relations Study (WERS) with its preferred self-identified measure of sexual orientation as well as its organizational-level variables, we find that gay men earn about the same as heterosexual men and lesbians earn significantly more than heterosexual women. Working in an organization with a diversity and equity management (DEM) policy generally has a positive effect on the earnings of gay men and lesbians, especially if they are single. Implications for theories of diversity management, discrimination and market versus household production are discussed." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Weber, Enzo & Franziska Zimmert (2018): Arbeitszeiten zwischen Wunsch und Wirklichkeit: Wie Diskrepanzen entstehen und wie man sie auflöst. (IAB-Kurzbericht 13/2018), Nürnberg, 8 S.

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"Arbeitszeitwünsche und tatsächliche Arbeitszeiten der Beschäftigten in Deutschland stimmen oft nicht überein, zum Beispiel aufgrund familiärer und berufsbezogener Rahmenbedingungen. Solche Arbeitszeitdiskrepanzen treten bei Frauen ebenso auf wie bei Männern und können sich auf die Lebens-, Gesundheits- oder Arbeitszufriedenheit der Betroffenen negativ auswirken. Kürzere Arbeitszeiten können die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf vereinfachen oder dabei helfen, Familienarbeit ausgewogener zu gestalten. In dem Wunsch nach einer Arbeitszeitverlängerung liegt ein Beschäftigungspotenzial, das zur Sicherung des Arbeitskräftebedarfs beitragen kann. In dem Kurzbericht wird die Verbreitung von Arbeitszeitdiskrepanzen in den letzten 30 Jahren betrachtet und untersucht, welche Faktoren zu ihrer Entstehung beziehungsweise zu ihrer Auflösung beitragen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Wieschke, Johannes (2018): Frequency of employer changes and their financial return: gender differences amongst German university graduates. In: Journal for labour market research, Jg. 52, H. 1, S. 1-13. DOI:10.1186/s12651-017-0235-3

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"Diese Studie nutzt eine Stichprobe bayerischer Hochschulabsolventen, um Geschlechtsunterschiede sowohl in der Häufigkeit als auch in den finanziellen Erträgen von Arbeitgeberwechseln zu untersuchen. Die Such- und Matchingtheorien werden genutzt, um Hypothesen zu entwickeln, die anschließend gegeneinander getestet werden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Frauen ihren Arbeitgeber in den ersten Jahren nach dem Abschluss häufiger wechseln als Männer. Das kann zu einem großen Teil durch unterschiedliche Arbeitsmarktstrukturen erklärt werden, vor allem durch die Tatsache, dass Frauen in ihrer ersten Beschäftigung seltener in Großbetrieben, in Führungspositionen und mit unbefristeten Verträgen arbeiten und weniger zufrieden mit ihrer Arbeit sind. Sobald auf all diese Faktoren kontrolliert wird, ändert der Koeffizient sein Vorzeichen, d. h. unter gleichen Umständen wechseln Männer den Arbeitgeber häufiger. Weiterhin profitieren sowohl Männer als auch Frauen finanziell von Arbeitgeberwechseln. Männer erhalten höhere absolute Erträge, aber aufgrund ihrer höheren Einstiegseinkommen existiert bei den relativen Erträgen kein Unterschied zwischen Männern und Frauen und somit auch kein Einfluss auf die Gender Pay Gap. Die Ergebnisse werden vor dem Hintergrund der Besonderheiten des deutschen Arbeitsmarktes diskutiert." (Autorenreferat, © Springer-Verlag)

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Wilkens, Mathijn, Jorge Cabrita, Jean-Marie Jungblut & Robert Anderson (2018): Striking a balance: Reconciling work and life in the EU. Working conditions. (Eurofound research report / European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions), Dublin, IV, 70 S. DOI:10.2806/560184

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"How to combine work with life is a fundamental issue for many people, an issue that policymakers, social partners, businesses and individuals are seeking to resolve. Simultaneously, new challenges and solutions are transforming the interface between work and life: an ageing population, technological change, higher employment rates and fewer weekly working hours. This report aims to examine the reciprocal relationship between work and life for people in the EU, the circumstances in which they struggle to reconcile the two domains, and what is most important for them in terms of their work - life balance. The report draws on a range of data sources, in particular the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) and the European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS)." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Wiswall, Matthew & Basit Zafar (2018): Preference for the workplace, investment in human capital, and gender. In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Jg. 133, H. 1, S. 457-507. DOI:10.1093/qje/qjx035

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"We use a hypothetical choice methodology to estimate preferences for workplace attributes from a sample of high-ability undergraduates attending a highly selective university. We estimate that women on average have a higher willingness to pay (WTP) for jobs with greater work flexibility and job stability, and men have a higher WTP for jobs with higher earnings growth. These job preferences relate to college major choices and to actual job choices reported in a follow-up survey four years after graduation. The gender differences in preferences explain at least a quarter of the early career gender wage gap." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Wuiame, Nathalie, herausgegeben von T. Johnson (Hrsg.) Europäische Kommission. Generaldirektion Beschäftigung, Soziales und Integration (2018): Female (un)employment and work-life balance. A discussion paper from the Employment Thematic Network. (ESF technical dossier 08), Brüssel, 37 S. DOI:10.2767/022588

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"The objective of this paper is to give an updated overview of the different situations of men and women in the labour market. It examines what the contribution of the Structural and Investment Funds - and especially the ESF - can be, in terms of both female employment and work life balance initiatives. The report concludes with some recommendations on how current and future European funds can better support female employment and gender equality through fighting gender stereotypes and gender segregation, changing the prevalent working culture, providing high-quality and affordable care solutions, and supporting women in specific situations such as victims of domestic violence." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((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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de Muizon, Marc Jourdain (2018): Why do married women work less in the UK than in France? In: Labour economics, Jg. 51, H. April, S. 86-96. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2017.12.002

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"Compared to their French counterparts, British married women choose fewer working hours but similar employment rates. This is driven mostly by the labour supply choices of those with young children. To understand why, I estimate a structural labour supply model and simulate counterfactual hours distributions. Differences in non-work income and childcare prices together explain about two-thirds of the observed labour supply gap for mothers of young children. Most prime-aged British married women also face significantly lower taxes compared to their France counterparts though they do not work significantly more aggregate hours. I estimate strong preferences differences across the Channel." (Author's abstract, © 2017 Elsevier) ((en))

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Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (2018): Vereinbarkeit von Ausbildung und Familie - Entwicklung betrieblicher Teilzeitausbildung. Antwort der Bundesregierung auf die Kleine Anfrage der Abgeordneten und der Fraktion DIE LINKE (Drucksache 19/412). (Verhandlungen des Deutschen Bundestages. Drucksachen 19/683 (06.02.2018)), 22 S.

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"Ausgeschriebene und unbesetzte Teilzeitausbildungsstellen, Nachfrage, Abschluss von Ausbildungsverträgen in Voll- und Teilzeit, Wirksamkeit der 11 Modellprojekte des BMBF, Förderung für Alleinerziehende, Branchen und Berufe mit den meisten Teilzeitplätzen, Angebot im öffentlichen Dienst, Alleinerziehende im SGB-II-Bezug ohne abgeschlossene Berufsausbildung, Anträge von Azubis in betrieblicher Ausbildung auf SGB II-Leistungen bzw. auf Wechsel in Teilzeit, zahlr. weitere Einzelfragen zur Teilzeitausbildung, gesetzgeberischer Handlungsbedarf betr. Rechtsanspruch, Akzeptanzförderung (insgesamt 24 Einzelfragen)" (Dokumentations- und Informationssystem Bundestag und Bundesrat - DIP)

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"Im Hinblick auf die Bedeutung der Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft als wachstumsstarke Zukunftsbranche im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung und einer zunehmend wissensbasierten Ökonomie, hat sich die Staatsregierung als ein zentrales Vorhaben im Arbeitsbereich der Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft die Fortschreibung des ersten sächsischen Kulturwirtschaftsberichtes von 2008 vorgenommen. Da dies in zweistufiger Form geschieht, aktualisiert der vorliegende Zwischenbericht die Zahlen und Fakten und wirft ein Schlaglicht auf die Themen Frauen in der Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft, Förderinstrumente und Digitalisierung. Dieser nun vom Wirtschaftsministerium zusammen mit dem Kunstministerium vorgelegte erste Teil bildet die Grundlage für eine inhaltliche, qualitative Interpretation, welche in einem zweiten Schritt eine Ableitung von Handlungsempfehlungen für Politik, Verwaltung und Multiplikatoren im Bereich der Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft im Rahmen des Zweiten Kulturwirtschaftsberichtes ermöglichen soll. Anhand der ermittelten Datengrundlage lässt sich feststellen, welchen quantitativen Beitrag die Kultur- und Kreativbranche zur Wirtschaftsleistung in den urbanen und ländlichen Kulturräume leistet, wobei genauere Erkenntnisse zur Situation geringfügig Beschäftigter sowie kleinerer Unternehmen ebenso erstmals einbezogen wurden wie die Situation der Frauen in der Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft. Die Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft in Sachsen sehen wir als eine Branche mit hoher Innovationskraft, geprägt von Vielfalt sowie guten Beschäftigungs- und Entwicklungspotenzialen. Neben den bereits bestehenden Förderinstrumenten, war ein wichtiger Schritt zu ihrer Stärkung Mitte 2017, die Einrichtung und Anschubfinanzierung durch Mittel des Freistaates Sachsen von 'Kreatives Sachsen' - dem Sächsischen Zentrum für Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft - als zentrale Anlaufstelle für alle Akteure der Kultur- und Kreativbranche. So sehr die Kultur- und Kreativbranche in Sachsen unübersehbar auch weiterhin einem deutlichen Wachstumstrend folgt, macht sich in ihr zugleich ein Wandel bemerkbar, der in starkem Maße von der Digitalisierung beeinflusst wird. Degressiven Entwicklungen durch veränderte Mediennutzungsgewohnheiten in den Bereichen Buchmarkt und Pressemarkt stehen andererseits Wachstumspotenziale durch digitale Anwendungen in anderen Bereichen gegenüber. Wir freuen uns, dass es gelungen ist, durch die vorliegende Bestandsaufnahme die Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft Sachsens unter wirtschafts- und arbeitsmarkpolitischen, aber auch kulturpolitischen Gesichtspunkten auszuleuchten. Damit soll der Weg geebnet werden zur Erstellung des Zweiten Kulturwirtschaftsberichtes, zur Weiterentwicklung der Branche und zur Erschließung kultur- und kreativwirtschaftlicher Potentiale für andere Branchen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Europäische Kommission. Generaldirektion Justiz und Verbraucher (2018): Report on equality between women and men in the EU 2018. (Report on equality between women and men), Brüssel, 70 S. DOI:10.2838/168837

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"The Commission is marking International Women's Day with the release of its 2018 report on equality between men and women, as well as a presentation of a report on women in tech. We are not there yet.
The Commission has acted to trigger change. It put forward a proposal to improve the work-life balance of working families, an Action plan to tackle the gender pay gap and called to put an end to violence against women through funding and awareness-raising actions.
The 2018 gender equality report shows that progress has stalled in certain areas: women still take on the majority of caring responsibilities in families, the gender pay gap has stagnated at 16% for years and violence against women remains a problem." (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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"While digital technologies offer leapfrog opportunities and help empower women, gender-based digital exclusion remains widespread and has many causes. The report Bridging the Digital Divide: Include, Upskill, Innovate is an effort by the OECD, working with the G20, that aims to provide policy directions for consideration by all governments. It analyses a range of drivers at the root of the digital gender divide in order to draw attention to critical areas for policy action." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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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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Ayala, Luis & Milagros Paniagua (2017): The impact of in-work benefits on female labor supply and income distribution in Spain. (EUROMOD working paper 2017,17), Colchester: EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, 36 S.

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"In-work benefits (IWBs) have become very common transfer programs that seek to meet both efficiency and equity targets. An expanding literature has assessed the effects of these policies on income distribution and labor supply showing important implications for female labor participation. In this paper, we estimate the distributional and behavioral impacts of a simulated IWB in Spain based on the replacement of the existing working mother tax credit (WMTC) using as a reference the US Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). We simulate the effects of the proposed scheme using EUROMOD and a discrete choice model of labor supply. Our results show that the enhancement of the proposed IWB would have significant and positive effects both in terms of female labor participation and inequality and poverty reduction. The introduction of this IWB would generate a substantial increase in labor participation at the extensive margin and a non-negligible reduction at the intensive margin." (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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Bičáková, Alena (2017): A note on selection and gender unemployment gaps. In: Journal of labor research, Jg. 38, H. 4, S. 428-438. DOI:10.1007/s12122-017-9257-4

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"Previous research has documented the impact of positive selection into employment on the ranking of countries by gender wage gaps. This note focuses on the impact of selection into labor force on cross-country differences in gender unemployment gaps. We construct the Manski bounds for the selection-free gender unemployment gaps in 26 EU countries and show that - without additional assumptions - the observed gender unemployment gaps carry little information about the selection-free gender differences in unemployment. Contrary to the common assumption of positive selection into labor force (similar to positive selection into employment documented in the gender wage gap research), we also point at an example of negative-selection bias. We show that labor force withdrawal of mothers on job-protected family leaves may lead to an overestimation of the selection-free gender unemployment gaps by as much as 1 p.p." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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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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Boll, Christina, Anja Rossen & André Wolf (2017): The EU gender earnings gap. Job segregation and working time as driving factors. In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Jg. 237, H. 5, S. 407-452., 2017-09-16. DOI:10.1515/jbnst-2017-0100

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"In diesem Papier analysieren wir den Umfang und die Determinanten des geschlechtsspezifischen Lohngefälles in Europa. Hierzu aktualisieren wir die bestehenden Ergebnisse in der Literatur anhand des Structure of Earnings Survey 2010 (SES). Auf Basis eines umfassenden Ländervergleichs (21 EU-Länder plus Norwegen) untersuchen wir die Determinanten der erklärten und unerklärten Lohnlücke mit Hilfe der Oaxaca-Blinder-Zerlegung. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass etwa ein Drittel der Lücke auf den Einfluss der verwendeten Variablen zurückzuführen ist. Humankapitalbezogene Faktoren sind eher von untergeordneter Bedeutung. Vielmehr wird die sektorale Segregation der Geschlechter als das wichtigste Hindernis für die Gleichstellung der Geschlechter bei den Löhnen identifiziert. Darüber hinaus trägt die Tatsache, dass Frauen häufiger Teilzeitstellen bekleiden, signifikant zur Lücke bei. Zudem erzielen Frauen niedrigere Sektorprämien als Männer, was auf eine weniger vorteilhafte Jobpositionierung von Frauen innerhalb von Branchen und Firmen hinweisen könnte. Wir schließen daraus, dass Strategien zur Schließung der Lohnlücke zwischen den Geschlechtern die Branchenebene stärker in den Blick nehmen sollten." (Autorenreferat, © De Gruyter)

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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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Castellano, Rosalia & Rocca Antonella (2017): The dynamic of the gender gap in the European labour market in the years of economic crisis. In: Quality and Quantity. International Journal of Methodology, Jg. 51, H. 3, S. 1337-1357. DOI:10.1007/s11135-016-0334-1

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"Closing the gender gap in the labour market is one of the main goals of European Union and part of a wider effort to eliminate social inequalities. In recent decades, all developed countries have suffered a deep global economic crisis, that has increased social and economic inequalities. In Europe, the crisis involved problems of European stability and growth, but the crisis did not affect the euro-area countries to the same extent, and the consequences and recovery were correspondingly asymmetrical. In this paper, we analyse the changes that occurred in the gender gap in the European labour markets from 2007 to 2012 to understand if the recession has further increased or reduced the gender differentials. At this aim, we combine the use of two different statistical methodologies. Through the composite indicator methodology, we test how the rank of countries in relation to gender equality has changed in these years. In addition, the Dynamic Factor Analysis allows us to identify the factors that drive these changes. Moreover, the contextual analysis of the measures that were utilized to face the crisis could give policy makers some useful suggestions on the most efficacious actions to take." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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Christiansen, Lone, Huidan Lin, Joana Pereira, Petia Topalova & Rima Turk (2017): Unlocking the potential of greater female employment in Europe. In: Intereconomics, Jg. 52, H. 1, S. 5-16. DOI:10.1007/s10272-017-0636-0

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"This paper investigates the drivers of female labour force participation in Europe, as well as the implications of achieving greater gender diversity in senior corporate positions. Re-examining the drivers of women's decisions to work is particularly important in the context of Europe. In many European countries, the process of closing gender gaps in labour force participation has stalled, despite greater gender equality in human capital investment, declining birth rates, changing social norms and equal legal access to employment opportunities." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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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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Dew, Brian (2017): The problem with blaming men for not working. A comparison of labor market outcomes for men and women. Washington, DC, 11 S.

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"Researchers, partially in response to the slow labor market recovery from the Great Recession and the 2016 presidential election in the United States, are interested in why men, and particularly men without a college education, aren't as likely to be working. Some explanations point to survey data on how leisure time is used to argue that men aren't working because they would rather do something else (such as play video games, or engage in other online leisure activities). Other research points to how increasing opioid usage is causing men to be unable to work. One problem with these explanations is that within specific age and education groups, changes to women's employment outcomes are often actually worse than men's. That is, the 'problem with men' is not specific to men.
This short paper compares changes since 1990 to men's and women's employment rates (also called the employment-population ratio) for three age subgroups of men and women without a college education. Changes to the employed share of each group show up in the group's employment rate, therefore discussion focuses on explanations for similarities and differences in trends in men's and women's employment rates since 2000. According to the latest available microdata - the October 2017 Current Population Survey (CPS) - roughly 44 million Americans between the ages of 25 and 54 (sometimes referred to as 'prime-age') report a high school diploma or less as their highest level of educational attainment (35.2 percent of the age 25 to 54 population). Of this group, slightly more than half, or 54.2 percent, are men. The prime-age group is divided into ten-year age subgroups (25-34, 35-44, and 45-54) to reduce the effect of demographic trends on employment rate data." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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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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Elveren, Adem Y., Christa Marr & Yvonne Renard (2017): Feminization of labour and profit rates. Evidence from OECD countries. In: Applied Economics Letters, Jg. 24, H. 7, S. 481-484. DOI:10.1080/13504851.2016.1203057

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"The article examines the effect of the feminization of labour on profit rates and capacity utilization by employing an indirect and two-stage least squares models for 21 OECD countries during the 1970 - 2008 period. Findings show that higher women's labour force participation rates and gender wage gap lead to higher profit rates." (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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Geyer, Johannes & Clara Welteke (2017): Closing routes to retirement. How do people respond? (DIW-Diskussionspapiere 1653), Berlin, 37 S.

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"We present quasi-experimental evidence on the employment effects of an unprecedented large increase in the early retirement age (ERA). Raising the ERA has the potential to extend contribution periods and to reduce the number of pension beneficiaries at the same time, if employment exits are successfully delayed. However, workers may not be able to work longer or may choose other social support programs as exit routes from employment. We study the effects of the ERA increase on employment and potential program substitution in a regression-discontinuity framework. Germany abolished an important early retirement program for women born after 1951, effectively raising the ERA for women by three years. We analyze the effects of this huge increase on employment, unemployment, disability pensions, and inactivity rates. Our results suggest that the reform increased both employment and unemployment rates of women age 60 and over. However, we do not find evidence for active program substitution from employment into alternative social support programs. Instead employed women remained employed and unemployed women remained unemployed. The results suggest an increase in inequality within the affected cohorts." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((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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Goldin, Claudia & Joshua Mitchell (2017): The new life cycle of women's employment. Disappearing humps, sagging middles, expanding tops. In: The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Jg. 31, H. 1, S. 161-182. DOI:10.1257/jep.31.1.161

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"A new life cycle of women's employment emerged with cohorts born in the 1950s. For prior cohorts, life-cycle employment had a hump shape; it increased from the twenties to the forties, hit a peak, and then declined starting in the fifties. The new life cycle of employment is initially high and flat, there is a dip in the middle, and a phasing out that is more prolonged than for previous cohorts. The hump is gone, the middle is a bit sagging, and the top has greatly expanded. We explore the increase in cumulative work experience for women from the 1930s to the 1970s birth cohorts using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation and the Health and Retirement Study. We investigate the changing labor force impact of a birth event across cohorts and by education, and also the impact of taking leave or quitting. We find greatly increased labor force experience across cohorts, far less time out after a birth, and greater labor force recovery for those who take paid or unpaid leave. Increased employment of women in their older ages is related to more continuous work experience across the life cycle." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Grönlund, Anne, Karin Halldén & Charlotta Magnusson (2017): A Scandinavian success story? Women's labour market outcomes in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. In: Acta sociologica, Jg. 60, H. 2, S. 97-119. DOI:10.1177/0001699316660595

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"In current research, the extensive family policies of the Scandinavian countries have been problematized and described as hampering women's careers. However, mechanisms have been little investigated and the Scandinavian countries are often regarded as a single policy model. Based on an account of institutional variety we study gender gaps in hourly wages and access to authority positions in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden and explore the importance of segregation, skills and work interruptions. The analysis uses pooled cross-sectional data from the European Social Survey (ESS) for 2004 and 2010. The results show that gender gaps vary both in size and regarding the mechanisms producing them. In particular, we find that gender segregation has a radically different impact in the four countries. The analysis suggests that the mechanisms linking family policies to labour market outcomes are more complex than envisaged in the current debate and point to the importance of comparing seemingly similar countries." (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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Hauret, Laetitia & Donald R. Williams (2017): Cross-national analysis of gender differences in job-satisfaction. In: Industrial relations, Jg. 56, H. 2, S. 203-235. DOI:10.1111/irel.12171

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"Research over the past two decades has found significant gender differences in subjective job satisfaction, with the result that women report greater satisfaction than men in some countries. This paper examines the so-called 'gender paradox' using data from the European Social Survey for a subset of fourteen countries in the European Union. We focus on the hypothesis that women place higher values on certain work characteristics than men, which explains the observed differential. Using estimates from Probit and ordered Probit models, we conduct standard Blinder - Oaxaca decompositions to estimate the impact that differential valuations of characteristics have on the gender difference in self-reported job satisfaction. The results indicate that females continue to report higher levels of job satisfaction than do men in some countries, and the difference remains even after controlling for a wide range of personal and job characteristics and working conditions. The decompositions suggest that a relatively small share of the gender differential is attributable to gender differences in the weights placed on working conditions in most countries. Rather, gender differences in job characteristics contribute relatively more to explaining the gender - job satisfaction differential." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((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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Heyne, Stefanie (2017): Culture and female labor force participation in international comparison. Mannheim, 178 S.

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"The central aim of this thesis is to examine whether cultural factors contribute to the explanation of differences in female labor force participation in international comparison. Previous research explaining these differences usually relies on modernization theory and explains differences in female labor force participation with different levels of modernization and related social changes like educational expansion. However, this approach has failed to explain the strong differences in female labor force participation between countries in general and between countries with similar levels of development in particular. Institutionalist approaches have tried to solve the paradox of differences in female labor force participation among highly developed countries but cannot explain the strong variation of female labor force participation among developing countries where only rudimentary welfare systems exist. This has raised the question whether the cultural approach is more suited to explain female labor force participation in an international comparison." (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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Jensen, Per H. & Rasmus Juul Møberg (2017): Does women's employment enhance women's citizenship? In: European Societies, Jg. 19, H. 2, S. 178-201. DOI:10.1080/14616696.2016.1268701

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"The EU discourse on increasing female employment holds promise. The integration of women into the labour market supposedly supports economic growth, social cohesion, and citizenship. The question is, however, whether the expected consequences of female employment are consistent with reality. Using the EU discourse as a point of departure, this paper scrutinises the effects of female employment from a citizenship perspective in three European cities: Aalborg (Denmark), Leeds (England), and Bologna (Italy). Using survey data collected in the three cities, it quantitatively analyses whether employment counteracts poverty, supports social and political participation, and increases social trust. It also analyses whether there are spill-over effects from the different dimensions of citizenship; that is, whether poverty leads to social isolation, political apathy, and low levels of social trust. We find that unemployment is important for citizenship but that the differences between employed women and women outside the labour force are rather limited. We also find that the effect of a woman's position in the vertical and horizontal division of labour is rather limited, and no spill-over effects from economic hardship on other dimensions of citizenship exist. What matters for citizenship are personal and family characteristics as well as the city of residence." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Jensen, Per H., Rasmus Juul Møberg, Ralf Och & Birgit Pfau-Effinger (2017): Explaining differences in women's working time in European cities. In: European Societies, Jg. 19, H. 2, S. 138-156. DOI:10.1080/14616696.2016.1268700

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"Women's work-time pattern in Europe is highly heterogeneous; some women work short or long part-time hours, while others work full-time. Few studies, however, have analysed the factors constituting women's work-time pattern. The article aims to explain why women's working time differs in five relatively big European cities, which represent an urban environment that is particularly supportive to women's employment, and the study is based on a new original telephone survey from 2013 among women 25 - 64 years of age. It is hypothesized and analysed how women's work-time pattern is the result of women's family-cultural orientation, individual and family characteristic, the gendered division of household task, women's position in the vertical and horizontal division of labour, and city of residence. Findings support the theoretical assumptions that there is a significant relationship between family-cultural orientation and work practices." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Karber, Anke, Jens Müller, Kerstin Nolte, Peter Schäfer & Tilmann Wahne (Hrsg.) (2017): Zur Gerechtigkeitsfrage in sozialen (Frauen-)Berufen. Gelingensbedingungen und Verwirklichungschancen. Opladen: Budrich, 279 S.

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"Personenbezogene soziale Dienstleistungsberufe befinden sich aktuell in einer kontroversen Lage: Auf der einen Seite erfahren sie eine erhebliche Expansion, begleitet von steigenden Qualitätsansprüchen an Erziehungs-, Bildungs-, Betreuungs- und Pflegetätigkeiten. Auf der anderen Seite entspricht die Anerkennung dieser Frauenberufe jedoch nach wie vor nicht ihrer tatsächlichen gesamtgesellschaftlichen Bedeutung. Dieses Spannungsfeld erörtern die AutorInnen aus verschiedenen Perspektiven." (Verlagsangaben, IAB-Doku)

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Kasearu, Kairi, Lara Maestripieri & Costanzo Ranci (2017): Women at risk: The impact of labour-market participation, education and household structure on the economic vulnerability of women through Europe. In: European Societies, Jg. 19, H. 2, S. 202-221. DOI:10.1080/14616696.2016.1268703

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"While increasing female employment has contributed to reducing gender inequality, it has also exposed women to higher economic insecurity. The contribution of this paper is to understand the social conditions that might expose women to economic insecurity in different European cities. Specific aspects have been considered: (a) reduced (part time) work, (b) hampered labour-market participation (unemployment, involuntary inactivity due to care tasks), (c) different household structures (single/couple; with/without young children) or (d) educational level of both partners in the household. Data are based on a survey carried out in 2012 in seven European cities, representative of the different welfare/gender regimes in Europe. The results show that the most important divide is between women cohabiting/not cohabiting with a partner. Splitting the analysis on these two groups of women, differentiated configurations of conditions exposing women to economic insecurity have emerged in different welfare/care regimes. While Nordic, Central-eastern and Anglo-Saxon cities substantiate an individualised model of exposure to economic insecurity mostly driven by women's participation in the labour market, in Continental and Mediterranean cities insecurity mainly depends on the educational levels (mainly of the partner in the case of coupled women) and the organisation of the household (presence of children)." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Khan, Haroon Ur Rashid, Anwar Khan, Khalid Zaman, Agha Amad Nabi, Sanil S. Hishan & Talat Islam (2017): Gender discrimination in education, health, and labour market. A voice for equality. In: Quality & quantity, Jg. 51, H. 5, S. 2245-2266. DOI:10.1007/s11135-016-0384-4

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"The objective of the study is to examine the impact of gender discrimination in education, health, and labour market on economic growth in a panel of 20 high-income OECD countries for the period of 1980 - 2015. In addition, the study proposed an index of pro-equality growth, which is flared with education, health, and labour market initiatives to promote economic growth. The results show that gender parity index for educational attainment significantly promotes economic growth while health and labour market required substantial policy reforms to reduce health and labour market inequalities to sustain long-term economic growth. The results classified three countries as highly equitable growth, one country for equitable growth, two countries are moderate growth, four countries are less equitable growth while remaining 10 countries fall in the category of inequitable growth, where greater inequality promotes economic growth on the cost of education, health, and labour market inequalities." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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Kleven, Henrik & Camille Landais (2017): Gender inequality and economic development. Fertility, education and norms. In: Economica, Jg. 84, H. 334, S. 180-209. DOI:10.1111/ecca.12230

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"We document the evolution of gender inequality in labour market outcomes -- earnings, labour supply and wage rates -- over the path of economic development, and present evidence on the potential reasons for this evolution. To this end, we have created a micro database that compiles 248 surveys from 53 countries between 1967 and 2014, covering a wide range of per capita income levels. There is large convergence in the earnings of men and women over the path of development, driven by female labour force participation and wage rates. We argue that the single most important factor behind this convergence is demographic transition: the effects of children on gender gaps ('child penalties') are large at both low and high levels of development, but fertility declines drastically over the growth process and thus reduces the aggregate implications of children. We also document gender convergence in educational attainment and consider its effects on earnings inequality, arguing that these are significant but less dramatic than the effects of fertility. Finally, we document striking changes in the values or norms surrounding the role of women with children, implying that such changes could serve as a reinforcing mechanism for gender convergence." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((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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Kopf, Eva & Cordula Zabel (2017): Activation programmes for women with a partner in Germany. Challenge or replication of traditional gender roles. In: International journal of social welfare, Jg. 26, H. 3, S. 239-253., 2016-09-18. DOI:10.1111/ijsw.12249

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"In 2005, Germany implemented major welfare benefit reforms that encourage an adult worker model of the family. In this study, we hypothesised that, despite these reforms, women's assignments to activation programmes would in practice still tend to replicate the degree of labour market attachment to which they had become accustomed relative to their partner in the past. We compared programme entries between women in former male breadwinner, dual earner, no-earner and female breadwinner households and applied event-history analysis to large-scale administrative data. Our findings showed that in western Germany - but not in eastern Germany - women's assignments to activation programmes indeed replicated their prior labour market attachment relative to their partner." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Krueger, Alan B. (2017): Where have all the workers gone? An inquiry into the decline of the U.S. labor force participation rate. In: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity H. Fall, S. 1-87.

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"The U.S. labor force participation rate has declined since 2007, primarily because of population aging and ongoing trends that preceded the Great Recession. The labor force participation rate has evolved differently, and for different reasons, across demographic groups. A rise in school enrollment has largely offset declining labor force participation for young workers since the 1990s. Labor force participation has been declining for prime age men for decades, and about half of prime age men who are not in the labor force may have a serious health condition that is a barrier to working. Nearly half of prime age men who are not in the labor force take pain medication on any given day; and in nearly two-thirds of these cases, they take prescription pain medication. Labor force participation has fallen more in U.S. counties where relatively more opioid pain medication is prescribed, causing the problem of depressed labor force participation and the opioid crisis to become intertwined. The labor force participation rate has stopped rising for cohorts of women born after 1960. Prime age men who are out of the labor force report that they experience notably low levels of emotional well-being throughout their days, and that they derive relatively little meaning from their daily activities. Employed women and women not in the labor force, by contrast, report similar levels of subjective well-being; but women not in the labor force who cite a reason other than 'home responsibilities' as their main reason report notably low levels of emotional well-being. During the past decade, retirements have increased by about the same amount as aggregate labor force participation has declined, and the retirement rate is expected to continue to rise. A meaningful rise in labor force participation will require a reversal in the secular trends affecting various demographic groups, and perhaps immigration reform." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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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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Lien, Shih-cheng (2017): Wohnstandort und räumliche Mobilität im Kontext steigender Frauenerwerbstätigkeit. Eine Analyse für West- und Ostdeutschland. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 299 S. DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-15858-3

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"Shih-Cheng Lien untersucht die Bedeutung der gestiegenen Frauenerwerbstätigkeit für die Veränderungen von Wohnstandort und räumlicher Mobilität. Mit Hilfe einer sekundärstatistischen Analyse des Sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP) für die Jahre 1993 bis 2008 analysiert sie die zunehmende Ausdifferenzierung der Lebensführung von Frauen - Lebensformen, Erwerbsbeteiligung und Arbeitszeit - in Abhängigkeit vom Bildungsniveau und die daraus folgenden Tendenzen der räumlichen Entwicklung bezüglich Alltagsmobilität, Wohnmobilität und Wohnstandortentscheidungen unterschiedlicher Haushaltstypen. Ein besonderes Augenmerk legt die Autorin auf die unterschiedlichen Entwicklungen in Ost- und Westdeutschland." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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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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Maurer, Martina & Viktoria Spielmann (2017): Frauen und Männer am österreichischen Arbeitsmarkt. Eine Analyse der Abt. Arbeitsmarktpolitik für Frauen des AMS Österreich für das Jahr 2016 unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der AMS-Gleichstellungsaktivitäten. (AMS-Info 398), Wien, 4 S.

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"Laufende Beobachtungen und Analysen des Arbeitsmarktgeschehens im Hinblick auf die Entwicklung der Beschäftigung bzw. Arbeitslosigkeit von Frauen und Männern sowie die Wirksamkeit der Instrumente und Programme des AMS zur Förderung der Arbeitsmarktintegration von Frauen stellen wichtige Aufgabenschwerpunkte der Abteilung Arbeitsmarktpolitik für Frauen des Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich dar. Das vorliegende AMS info resümiert wichtige diesbezügliche Jahreswerte für das Beobachtungsjahr 2016 aus dem aktuellen Bericht der Abteilung zu den 'Gleichstellungskennzahlen'" (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Mayrhuber, Christine (2017): Erwerbsunterbrechungen, Teilzeitarbeit und ihre Bedeutung für das Frauen-Lebenseinkommen. (AMS-Arbeitsmarktstrukturbericht), Wien, 46 S.

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"Das Lebenseinkommen wird von der Einkommenshöhe und der Zahl der Erwerbsjahre bestimmt. Erwerbsunterbrechungen, wie sie Frauen häufig aufweisen, haben so wie eine Verringerung der Arbeitszeit (Teilzeiterwerbstätigkeit) langfristige Einkommensfolgen, die in der vorliegenden Arbeit quantifiziert werden. Eine Erwerbslücke von einem Jahr senkt die monatliche Pension um rund 2,8%. Ist die Erwerbslücke durch die Kindererziehungszeit gedeckt, dann wird die Monatspension halb so stark verringert. Eine Teilzeiterwerbstätigkeit im Ausmaß von 30 Wochenstunden für die Dauer von 15 Jahren ermöglicht eine Monatspension, die um zumindest 10% höher ist als bei einer Teilzeiterwerbstätigkeit von 20 Wochenstunden." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Menke, Katrin & Ute Klammer (2017): Mehr Geschlechtergerechtigkeit - weniger soziale Gerechtigkeit? Familienpolitische Reformprozesse in Deutschland aus intersektionaler Perspektive. In: Sozialer Fortschritt, Jg. 66, H. 3-4, S. 213-228. DOI:10.3790/sfo.66.3-4.213

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"In der deutschen Familienpolitik wurde vielfach ein 'Paradigmenwechsel' diagnostiziert, der Gegenstand kontroverser Diskussionen ist. Während die einen den familienpolitischen Wandel aus gleichstellungspolitischen Gründen begrüßen, äußern andere Kritik angesichts der selektiven Wirkung der jüngeren familienpolitischen Reformen auf Mütter und Väter je nach Stellung am Arbeitsmarkt, Einkommen oder Nationalität / Migrationsstatus. Der Beitrag greift diese unterschiedlichen Perspektiven auf Familienpolitik auf und geht dem sich andeutenden Konflikt zwischen den Kategorien Geschlecht, Klasse und Ethnizität analytisch nach. Steht die Familienpolitik vor dem Dilemma, sich bei der Gestaltung von Reformen zwischen Geschlechtergerechtigkeit und anderen Kategorien sozialer Gerechtigkeit entscheiden zu müssen? Im Rahmen einer intersektionalen Analyse fragen wir, welche potenziellen Implikationen die deutsche Familienpolitik auf die Handlungsoptionen von Eltern unter Berücksichtigung ihrer sozialen Positionierung hat. Maßstab ist die Wahlfreiheit ('Choice') von Müttern und Vätern im Lebensverlauf." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Neumark, David & Peter Shirley (2017): The long-run effects of the earned income tax credit on women's earnings. (NBER working paper 24114), Cambrige, Mass., 46 S. DOI:10.3386/w24114

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"We use longitudinal data on marriage and children from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to characterize women's exposure to the federal and state Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) during their first two decades of adulthood. We then use measures of this exposure to estimate the long-run effects of the EITC on women's earnings as mature adults. We find some evidence indicating that exposure to a more generous EITC when women were unmarried and had young (pre-school) children leads to higher earnings and hours, and perhaps wages, in the longer run. We also find some evidence that exposure to a more generous EITC when women had young children but were married leads to lower earnings and hours in the longer run. These longer-run effects are to some extent consistent with what we would expect if the short-run effects of the EITC on employment that are documented in other work, and predicted by theory, are reflected in effects of the EITC on cumulative labor market experience (and other consequences of labor market attachment) that influence earnings." (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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Olivetti, Claudia & Barbara Petrongolo (2017): The economic consequences of family policies. Lessons from a century of legislation in high-income countries. (IZA discussion paper 10505), Bonn, 45 S.

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"We draw lessons from existing work and our own analysis on the effects of parental leave and other interventions aimed at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with a discussion of the historical introduction of family policies ever since the end of the nineteenth century and then turn to the details regarding family policies currently in effect across high-income nations. We sketch a framework concerning the effects of family policy to motivate our country- and micro-level evidence on the impact of family policies on gender outcomes. Most estimates of the impact of parental leave entitlement on female labor market outcomes range from negligible to weakly positive. The verdict is far more positive for the beneficial impact of spending on early education and childcare." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Olivetti, Claudia & Barbara Petrongolo (2017): The economic consequences of family policies. Lessons from a century of legislation in high-income countries. In: The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Jg. 31, H. 1, S. 205-230. DOI:10.1257/jep.31.1.205

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"By the early 21st century, most high-income countries have put into effect a host of generous and virtually gender-neutral parental leave policies and family benefits, with the multiple goals of gender equity, higher fertility, and child development. What have been the effects? Proponents typically emphasize the contribution of family policies to the goals of gender equity and child development, enabling women to combine careers and motherhood, and altering social norms regarding gender roles. Opponents often warn that family policies may become a long-term hindrance to women's careers because of the loss of work experience and the higher costs to employers that hire women of childbearing age. We draw lessons from existing work and our own analysis on the effects of parental leave and other interventions aimed at aiding families. We present country- and micro-level evidence on the effects of family policy on gender outcomes, focusing on female employment, gender gaps in earnings, and fertility. Most estimates range from negligible to a small positive impact. But the verdict is far more positive for the beneficial impact of spending on early education and childcare." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Pestel, Nico (2017): Marital sorting, inequality and the role of female labour supply. Evidence from East and West Germany. In: Economica, Jg. 84, H. 333, S. 104-127. DOI:10.1111/ecca.12189

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"This paper examines the effect of marital sorting on earnings inequality, taking into account extensive and intensive margin labour supply choices. Using German microdata, the observed distribution of couples' earnings is compared to a counterfactual of random matches. In West Germany, marital sorting is found to be disequalizing only after adjusting for labour supply. This means that positive sorting in earnings potential is veiled by low female participation rates. In East Germany, the impact is highly disequalizing even when earnings are taken as given, due to the fact that East German women are more attached to the labour market." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Pocock, Barbara & Sara Charlesworth (2017): Multilevel work-family interventions. Creating good-quality employment over the life course. In: Work and occupations, Jg. 44, H. 1, S. 23-46. DOI:10.1177/0730888415619218

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"Poor-quality jobs have significant costs for individual workers, their families, and the wider community. Drawing mainly on the Australian case, the authors' focus is on the structural challenges to work - life reconciliation and the multiple-level interventions necessary to create quality employment that supports workers to reconcile work and family over the life course. The authors argue that interventions are necessary in three domains: at the macrosocial and economic level, in the regulatory domain, and in the workplace domain. The nature and success of these interventions is also critical to gender equality and to responding to the changing gender and care composition of the workforce across OECD countries." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Rainer, Helmut, Anita Fichtl & Timo Hener (2017): Familienpolitik in Deutschland. Kausale Evaluationsstudien und ausgewählte Ergebnisse. In: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, Jg. 18, H. 2, S. 117-131. DOI:10.1515/pwp-2017-0010

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"Anita Fichtl, Timo Hener und Helmut Rainer liefern einen Überblick über die empirische Forschung zu den Auswirkungen familienpolitischer Maßnahmen auf Erwerbstätigkeit und Einkommen von Familien, auf das Wohlergehen von Kindern und auf die Fertilität. Anhand von quasi-experimentellen Evaluationsstudien, die eindeutige Wirkungsrichtungen aufdecken sollen, zeichnen sie die Effekte von vier wichtigen familienpolitischen Leistungen nach: Kindergeld, Elterngeld, Betreuungsgeld und öffentlich geförderte Kinderbetreuung. Ihr Fokus liegt auf den Ergebnissen deutscher Studien, die sie mit internationaler Evidenz ergänzen und vergleichen. Vor der Folie der empirischen Erkenntnisse weisen die Autoren auf Problemfelder der deutschen Familienpolitik hin und leiten weiteren Forschungsbedarf ab." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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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)