The effects of family policy on maternal labor supply: Combining evidence from a structural model and a quasi-experimental approach

Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2015.07.001

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“…While all of the national studies in the Special Section have made use of specific policy variation to isolate the effect of an individual policy change on female labor force participation, the resulting effects range from rather small (Asai, 2015;Givord and Marbot, 2015) to rather large (Haeck, Lefebvre, and Merrigan, 2015;Geyer, Haan, and Wrohlich 2015). In each case, the authors discuss the national context in which the policy was adopted, thereby providing richer insight into why the various effects were observed.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, the potential for such interactions make the modeling exercise in Geyer, Haan, and Wrohlich (2015) (Asai, 2015;Haeck, Lefebvre, and Merrigan, 2015;Nollenberger and Rodríguez-Planas, 2015) and two others are set in contexts where initial female labor force participation is relatively high (Givord and Marbot, 2015;Bettendorf, Jongen, and Muller, 2015). Clearly, the scope for crowd-out is much higher in the latter context, and indeed, both of those papers discuss the relatively high apparent costs of increasing maternal labor force participation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For example, consider an increase in the income replacement rate under a leave policy, such as those studied in Asai (2015) in Japan and Geyer, Haan, and Wrohlich (2015) in Germany. By providing more non-labor income, such an increase should generate an unambiguous reduction in maternal LFP and employment for the duration of the leave (i.e., it should generate greater take-up of leave).…”

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“…17 Geyer, Haan, and Wrohlich (2015) evaluates the effects of a reform that removed meanstesting for income support under Germany's leave policy while simultaneously lowering the duration of paid leave benefits. Not only does the paper provide compelling estimates of the effects of this leave policy change using a clear and transparent identification strategy, but it also builds a structural model of labor supply useful for benchmarking the actual leave policy change and for simulating the effects of additional changes to childcare policy.…”

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“…These papers were not submitted in response to a call for papers, but rather were independently submitted by the various authors over several months. All articles adopt a transparent reduced-form identification strategy, with one article (Geyer, Haan, and Wrohlich, 2015) gaining additional insights through more structural methods.…”

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