TY - JOUR A1 - Brüggmann, Daniel T1 - Women’s employment, income and divorce in West Germany: a causal approach JF - Journal for Labour Market Research N2 - 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 employment. 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. KW - Divorce KW - Female employment KW - Propensity score matching KW - Difference-in-difference KW - Boosted regression Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12651-020-00270-0 SN - 2510-5027 VL - 54 IS - 5 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Brüggmann, Daniel ED - Kreyenfeld, Michaela ED - Trappe, Heike T1 - Work Disability and Divorce T2 - Parental Life Courses after Separation and Divorce in Europe N2 - This chapter uses German register to study the influence of divorce on the uptake of work disability. Information on work disability is included in the register data if sick leave extends beyond 42 days of illness. Thus, our analysis focuses on long-term health issues. We compare divorced men and women over a period of 12 years, starting 7 years before they filed for a divorce and ending 4 years thereafter. As a method, we use matching techniques, which enables us to compare the divorcees with a comparable control group of people who did not divorce. We show that health declined considerably around the time of separation and file opening. Even 4 years after they filed for a divorce, the divorcees’ risk of taking work disability was strongly elevated. However, a portion of the differences in the health status of the divorcees and the control group can be attributed to selection, because the health status of the divorcees had been lower than the health status of the control group 7 years before they filed for a divorce. The chapter concludes with a discussion on the societal consequences of divorce. KW - Divorce KW - Gender KW - Health KW - Self-selection KW - Work disability Y1 - 2020 SN - 9783030445775 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44575-1_14 SP - 289 EP - 308 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER -