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The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Germany - State Dependence Before and after the 'Hartz Reforms'

Königs, Sebastian - 2014

In this article, we study state dependence in social assistance receipt in Germany using annual survey data from the … rates are much higher in Eastern Germany than in Western Germany, absolute levels of structural state dependence however are …

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The Aggregate Effects of the Hartz Reforms in Germany

Hertweck, Matthias S. - 2013

This paper quantifies the impact of the Hartz reforms on matching efficiency, using monthly SOEP gross worker flows (1983-2009). We show that, until the early 2000s, close to 60% of changes in the unemployment rate are due to changes in the inflow rate (job separation). On the contrary, since...

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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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The Introduction of a Short-Term Earnings-Related Parental Leave Benefit System and Differential Employment Effects

Bergemann, Annette - 2010

German family policy underwent a reform in 2007, when the new instrument of "Elterngeld" replaced the previous "Erziehungsgeld". The transfer programs differ in various dimensions. We study the effects on the labor supply of young mothers, by comparing behavior before and after the reform. We...

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Testing the ‘Residential Rootedness' - Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK

Reuschke, Darja - 2012

Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move or migrate than employees. Using longitudinal data from … in employment status we found little evidence that the self-employed in Germany and the UK are more rooted in place than …

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So Far So Good : Age, Happiness, and Relative Income

Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2012

In a simple 2-period model of relative income under uncertainty, higher comparison income for the younger cohort can signal higher or lower expected lifetime relative income, and hence either increase or decrease well-being. With data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British...

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Re-Engaging with Survey Non-Respondents : The BHPS, SOEP and HILDA Survey Experience

Wooden, Mark - 2011

Previous research into the correlates and determinants of non-response in longitudinal surveys has focused exclusively on why it is that respondents at one survey wave choose not to participate at future waves. This is very understandable if non-response is always an absorbing state, but in many...

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Long-Distance Moves and Labour Market Outcomes of Dual-Earner Couples in the UK and Germany

Lersch, Philipp M. - 2012

and account for the nonindependence of both careers. Second, I compare evidence from the United Kingdom (UK) and Germany …-earner couples are temporarily adversely affected in their careers by long-distance moves in the UK and West Germany after … controlling for various characteristics of both partners. Women in East Germany are not affected by long-distance moves. Moves do …

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Life Satisfaction, Household Income and Personality Theory

Proto, Eugenio - 2012

We show that personality traits mediate the effect of income on Life Satisfaction. The effect is strong in the case of Neuroticism, which measures the sensitivity to threat and punishment, in both the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socioeconomic Panel. Neuroticism increases the...

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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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