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What drives the reversal of the gender education gap? : evidence from Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Schwientek, Caroline - 2015

We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on …

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Time series properties of the German monthly production index

Flaig, Gebhard - 2003

The production index is an important indicator for assessing the cyclical state of the economy. Unfortunately, the monthly time series is contaminated by many noisy components like seasonal variations, calendar and vacation effects. Only part of those nuisance components are explicitly...

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Intergenerational transmission of unemployment : evidence for German sons

Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - 2014

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...

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Unoberserved components models for quarterly German GDP

Flaig, Gebhard - 2002

In this paper, an Unobserved Components Model is employed to decompose German real GDP into the trend, cycle and seasonal components and the working day effect. The most important findings are: 1) The growth rate of potential output declined from 4.2 per cent in the sixties to 1.4 per cent at...

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Estimating the output gap using business survey data : a bivariate structural time series model for the German economy

Flaig, Gebhard; Ploetscher, Claudia - 2000

This paper deals with the estimation of the output gap. We use uni- and bivariate unobserved components models in order to decompose the observed German GDP-series into trend, cycle and seasonal components. The results show that using the ifo business assessment variable as an indicator for the...

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Input demand and the short- and long-run employment thresholds : an empirical analysis for the German manufacturing sector

Flaig, Gebhard; Rottmann, Horst - 2000

The concept of the employment threshold plays an important role in the public discussion of unemployment. The employment threshol d is defined as that growth rate of output which is necessary to keep employment constant despite the continuous rise in labour productivity. It is related to the...

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Fertility effects of child benefits

Riphahn, Regina T.; Wiynck, Frederik - 2017

We exploit the 1996 reform of the German child benefit program to identify the causal effect of heterogeneous child benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied by household income and the number of children. We use these...

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Naturalization and labor market performance of immigrants in Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Saif, Salwan - 2018

study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and …

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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …

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Intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt : evidence from Germany

Feichtmayer, Jennifer; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2023

We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation …

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