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We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on …
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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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We investigate the unemployment pathway to retirement in Germany and study the causal effects of two early retirement …
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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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study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and …
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We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation …
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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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