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The Impact of the German Child Benefit on Child Well-Being
Raschke, Christian - 2013
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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Life-Cycle Incidence of Family Policy Measures in Germany : Evidence from a Dynamic Microsimulation Model
Bonin, Holger - 2015
This paper quantifies the life-cycle incidence of key family policy measures in Germany. The analysis is based on a … Germany benefit considerably from family- and marriage-related transfers, yet also reveal substantial variation behind the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019452
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Early Child Care and Child Development : For Whom it Works and Why
Felfe, Christina - 2013
Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care...
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Parental Leave Policies and Child Care Time in Couples after Childbirth
Schober, Pia Sophia - 2012
This research explores how different parental leave reforms in West Germany impacted on the time mothers and fathers in …
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Information Asymmetries between Parents and Educators in German Childcare Institutions
Camehl, Georg; Schober, Pia Sophia; Spiess, C. Katharina - 2018
asymmetries. We empirically investigate information asymmetries between parents and ECEC professionals in Germany, making use of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014117198
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128093
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The Politicians’ Wage Gap : Insights from German Members of Parliament
Peichl, Andreas - 2011
Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians' wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting for selection into politics, we find a positive PWG...
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How Important is the Family? Evidence from Sibling Correlations in Permanent Earnings in the US, Germany and Denmark
Schnitzlein, Daniel - 2011
earnings in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and the US. The main findings are as follows …: the importance of family and community background in Germany is higher than in Denmark and comparable to that in the US … to family and community factors shared by brothers while the corresponding estimates are 43 percent in Germany and 45 …
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Lebenszufriedenheit und Einkommensreichtum : Eine empirische Analyse mit dem SOEP (Life Satisfaction and Income Richness: An Empirical Analysis Based on Data of the German Socioeco...
Hajek, André - 2011
In this study the relation between satisfaction with life and affluent income is analyzed by using cross-sectional and longitudinal data. The data used in this publication were made available by the German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128105
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Personal Bankruptcy Law, Wealth and Entrepreneurship : Theory and Evidence from the Introduction of a 'Fresh Start'
Fossen, Frank M. - 2011
tests the hypotheses derived by exploiting the introduction of a “fresh start” policy in Germany in 1999 as a natural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130939