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Does unemployment help or hinder becoming independent? : the role of employment status for leaving the parental home

Jacob, Marita; Kleinert, Corinna - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007

, welfare state, parents and partner. Resources of each can be pooled, and resources of other actors can compensate for own …

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Who is targeted by One-Euro-Jobs? : a selectivity analysis

Hohmeyer, Katrin; Jozwiak, Eva - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

"In 2005 major reforms of the means-tested unemployment benefit system were implemented in Germany. One element of the reforms was to activate benefit recipients by a workfare programme, the so-called One-Euro-Job programme. More than 600,000 benefit recipients entered this programme in the year...

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Pension and children : Pareto improvement with heterogeneous preferences

Gaggermeier, Christian - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006

, which internalises positive externalities of children - their pension contributions. Individuals may differ in their … preferences for children and their ability to have children at all. They can choose between the status-quo flat-rate benefits and … a new system, in which they get just the benefits that are (on average) financed by their own children, reduced by an …

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Information asymmetry, education signals and the case of Ethnic and Native Germans

Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background ('Native Germans'). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the migrants...

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The educational attainment of the second generation in Germany : social origins and ethnic inequality

Kristen, Cornelia; Granato, Nadia - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007

"With the German Microcensus we study the second generation's educational attainment in Germany focusing on the descendants of classic labour migrants. Our results show that educational outcomes in terms of attending or completing the highest schooling track leading to the Abitur considerably...

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