Duration of maternity leave in Germany. A case study of nonparametric hazard models and penalized splines.

Autor/inn/en	Kuhlenkasper, Torben; Kauermann, Göran
Institution	Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Titel	Duration of maternity leave in Germany. A case study of nonparametric hazard models and penalized splines. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Dauer von Erziehungsurlaub in Deutschland. Eine Fallstudie auf der Basis nonparametrischer Hazard-Modelle und penalisierter Splines.
Quelle	Berlin (2009), 32 S.; 484 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	SOEPpapers on multidisciplinary panel data research at DIW Berlin. 213/2009
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
ISSN	1864-6689
Schlagwörter	Bildungsniveau; Mutter; Elternzeit; Einkommen; Erwerbsunterbrechung; Arbeitspapier
Abstract	"The paper investigates maternity leave behavior in West Germany for females being employed between 1995 and 2006 using data from the German Socio Economic Panel. The observational study focuses on the investigation of individual and family-related covariate effects on the duration of maternity leave following first or second childbirth, respectively. Dynamic duration time models are used in which covariate effects are allowed to vary smoothly with duration of being in maternity leave. The intention of the paper is to demonstrate with state of the art models how effects of covariables change over time and to analyse substantial differences between maternity leaves following first and second childbirth. Particularly the personal income of mothers and the educational attainment influence the decision when to return into employment. The leave period following second birth is influenced by the mothers' attachment to the labour market between their two maternity leave periods. As fitting routine penalized spline smoothing effects is employed using available software in R (www.r-project.org)." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Methodenentwicklung; Grundlagenforschung. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1995 bis 2006. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2010/1