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Krause, Peter - 2015

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Forced migration and social cohesion : evidence from the 2015/16 mass inflow in Germany

Albarosa, Emanuele; Elsner, Benjamin - 2023

A commonly expressed concern about immigration is that it undermines social cohesion in the receiving country. In this paper, we study the impact of a large and sudden inflow of asylum seekers on several indicators of social cohesion. In 2015/16, over one million asylum seekers from Syria,...

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A wealth tax on the rich to bring down public debt? : revenue and distributional effects of a capital levy

Bach, Stefan; Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2011

The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political...

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Preferences for childcare policies : theory and evidence

Borck, Rainald; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2008

We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...

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Parental unemployment and the transition into tertiary education : can institutions moderate the adverse effects?

Lindemann, Kristina; Gangl, Markus - 2018

This paper examines how parental unemployment affects the transition to postsecondary education in different institutional contexts. Drawing on theoretical perspectives in intergenerational mobility research and sociology of higher education, we estimate the extent to which these...

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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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Redistribution and insurance in welfare states around the world

Bartels, Charlotte; Neumann, Dirk - 2018

Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective. In particular, public pensions, that smooth incomes over the...

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Implementation of funding for the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) : a personal recollection

Schäfers, Bernhard - 2009

The SOEP success story was not conceivable at its inception. SOEP's institutionalization is therefore a lesson demonstrating that it is not always possible to say - as is so often required of research proposals today - how a project will develop before it has even begun, and what significance it...

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How important is the type of working contract for job satisfaction of agency workers?

Pettiliot, René - 2016

contract. All these studies have in common that they treat agency workers as a homogeneous group; that is, they did not … consider the contract type agency workers hold. This paper analyzes whether differences in job satisfaction can be explained by … the contract type using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The analysis leads to three main results. First …

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