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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 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.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Daniel Brüggmann
Parent Title (English):Journal for Labour Market Research
ISSN:2510-5027
Publication year:2020
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12651-020-00270-0
Release Date:2020/10/22
Tag:Boosted regression; Difference-in-difference; Divorce; Female employment; Propensity score matching
Volume:54
Issue:5
Hertie School Research:Publications PhD Researchers
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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