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The impact of the German child benefit on child well-being

Raschke, Christian - 2012

The German Child Benefit ("Kindergeld") is paid to legal guardians of children as a cash benefit. This study employs exogenous variations in the amount of child benefit received by households to investigate the extent to which these various changes have translated into an improvement in the...

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Vom Kinderzuschlag zum Kindergeldzuschlag : ein Reformvorschlag zur Bekämpfung von Kinderarmut

Becker, Irene; Hauser, Richard - 2008

Mit dem im Zuge der Hartz IV-Reform 2005 eingeführten Kinderzuschlag sollte vermieden werden, dass Familien von ALG II und Sozialgeld abhängig werden, deren Einkommen zwar zur Deckung des elterlichen minimalen Lebensstandards, nicht aber für das Existenzminimum des Kindes bzw. der Kinder...

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A detailed decomposition of changes in wage inequality in reunified post-transition Germany 1999 - 2006

Al-Farhan, Usamah Fayez - 2010

In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a … in Germany. On the other hand, the relative stability in wage inequality during the sub-period 2002-2006 was caused by … coefficient effect maintained a positive influence in both the western region, eastern region and in reunified Germany alike …

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September 11th and the earnings of muslims in Germany : the moderating role of education and firm size

Cornelißen, Thomas; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2010

Germany provides evidence that the events also affected the relative earnings of Muslims outside the US. However, the results …

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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern

Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...

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Are recessions good for educational attainment?

Ochsen, Carsten - 2010

children. Using data for Germany, we find that an economic downturn, coupled with increased unemployment, affects children …

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International trade and individual labour market perspectives : a micro-level analysis of German manufacturing workers

Lurweg, Maren; Uhde, Nicole - 2010

This paper studies the impact of international trade on individual labour market outcomes in the German manufacturing sector for the period 1995-2006. Combining micro-level data from the German Socioeconomic Panel and industry-level trade data from input-output tables, we examine the impacts on...