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Mortgage market maturity and homeownership inequality among young households : a five-country perspective

Bičáková, Alena (contributor); … - 2008

rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and … highest and most equally distributed homeownership in this country as well. The mortgage market in Germany is on the other …

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Gender, migration, remittances : evidence from Germany

Holst, Elke (contributor); Schäfer, Andrea (contributor); … - 2008

2007, about 7.3 million foreigners were living in Germany. While the total number of foreigners has decreased over the last … decade, female migration to Germany has increased. Today, women constitute 48.6% of migratory flows to Germany, although the … proportion varies significantly by country of origin. A feminization of migration is observable all over the world, and is …

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Das enttäuschte Versprechen der Integration : Migrantennachkommen in Frankreich und Deutschland

Tucci, Ingrid (contributor); Groh-Samberg, Olaf (contributor) - 2008

enttäuscht wird. Demgegenüber setzt die Ausgrenzung von Migrantennachkommen in Deutschland schon im Bildungssystem ein, so dass … ; Deutschland ; Frankreich …

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Maternal employment and happiness : the effect of non-participation and part-time employment on mothers' life satisfaction

Berger, Eva M. - 2009

less frequently been the subject of economists' investigations. In Germany, many women with dependent children are …

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Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility? : evidence from a structural model

Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009

In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer...

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Unobserved heterogeneity and international benchmarking in public transport

Cullmann, Astrid; Farsi, Mehdi; Filippini, Massimo - 2009

We analyze the technical efficiency of German and Swiss urban public transport companies by means of SFA. In transport networks we might face different network structures or complexities, not observed, but influencing the production process. The unobserved factors are typically modeled as...

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Gender, transnational networks and remittances : evidence from Germany

Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2010

Remittances from Germany are substantial. Cross-border transfers to family and friendship networks outside Germany are …

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Optimal taxation : the design of child related cash- and in-kind-benefits

Haan, Peter (contributor); Wrohlich, Katharina (contributor) - 2007

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Gender differences in subjective well-being in and out of management positions

Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2010

it all", but women must still choose between career and family in Germany. We argue that interventions need to address …

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Comparing the determinants of concern about terrorism and crime

Brück, Tilman; Müller, Cathérine - 2009

Both crime and terrorism impose costs onto society through the channels of fear and worry. Identifying and targeting groups which are especially affected by worries might be one way to reduce the total costs of these two types of insecurity. However, compared to the drivers of the fear of crime,...

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