Artikel

Women’s employment, income and divorce in West Germany: a causal approach

In this paper, I assess the employment and income effect of divorce for women in West Germany between 2000 and 2005. With newly available administrative data that allows me to adopt a causal approach, I find strong negative employment effects with respect to marginal employment and strong positive effects with respect to regular employ-ment. However, in sum, the overall employment rate (marginal and regular employment combined) is not affected. Furthermore, the lower the labor market attachment before separation is, the more pronounced employment effects are. In addition, I also estimate the impact of divorce on daily gross incomes. I find no convincing evidence for an income effect. I conclude that a divorce might have a pure labor supply effect only.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Journal for Labour Market Research ; ISSN: 2510-5027 ; Volume: 54 ; Year: 2020 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 1-22 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Thema
Divorce
Female employment
Propensity score matching
Difference-in-difference
Boosted regression
Principal stratification
Sample selection

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Brüggmann, Daniel
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Springer
(wo)
Heidelberg
(wann)
2020

DOI
doi:10.1186/s12651-020-00270-0
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

Datenpartner

Dieses Objekt wird bereitgestellt von:
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft. Bei Fragen zum Objekt wenden Sie sich bitte an den Datenpartner.

Objekttyp

  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Brüggmann, Daniel
  • Springer

Entstanden

  • 2020

Ähnliche Objekte (12)