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Older Babies – More Active Mothers? How Maternal Labor Supply Changes as the Child Grows

Author(s) -

Katrin Sommerfeld

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

journal of contextual economics – schmollers jahrbuch

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114

H-Index - 1

eISSN - 2568-762X

pISSN - 2568-7603

DOI - 10.3790/schm.129.2.227

Subject(s) - tobit model , incentive , economics , german , demographic economics , labour economics , psychology , econometrics , geography , archaeology , microeconomics

Female labor market activity is dependent on the presence and the age of a child, but how do the determinants develop in magnitude and significance with the child's age? Using German SOEP data from 1991 to 2006 for mothers with young children, the change in maternal labor supply when the child is one, two, and three years old is explicitly addressed. According to the tobit regression results for precise working hours, maternal labor supply becomes increasingly responsive to economic incentives - mainly to imputed wages - as the child grows.

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