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| Title: | | Female labor supply and parental leave benefits: The causal effect of paying higher transfers for a shorter period of time  |
| Authors: | | Bergemann, Annette Riphahn, Regina T. |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working paper // IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation 2009:5 |
| Abstract: | | We study the labor supply effects of a major change in child-subsidy policy in Germany in 2007 designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform involved a move from a means-tested maternity leave benefit system that paid a maximum of 300 Euro for up to two years to an income dependent benefit system that replaced two third of the pre-birth income for at most one year. As the reform took place very recently, we estimate the labor supply effect by using data drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel on the intention of women to return to the labor market; notably whether women are likely to return and whether they intend to return quickly. Our results show that the reform yields most of the intended effects: The fraction of mothers who responded that they were going to return to the labor market within a year since the interview increased by 14 percentage points. |
| Subjects: | | Female labor supply fertility child subsidy parents money |
| JEL: | | J13 J21 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Papers, Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU)
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