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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2016
This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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Hartz and minds: Happiness effects of reforming an employment agency
Deter, Max - 2020
Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment … unemployment rate. Also unemployed persons who exogenously lost their jobs are affected by the reforms. In line with the structure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294311
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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment
Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - 2009
While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....
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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment
Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018699
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Gender identity and wives' labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016
Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019
We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family...
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Undoing gender with institutions: Lessons from the German division and reunification
Lippmann, Quentin; Georgieff, Alexandre; … - 2019
Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created …
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Math, girls and socialism
Lippmann, Quentin; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2018
gender gap in math is due to social stereotypes; (2) institutions can durably modify these stereotypes. …
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Law and social capital: Evidence from the Code Napoleon in Germany
Buggle, Johannes C. - 2013
Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …
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Law and Social Capital: Evidence from the Code Napoleon in Germany
Buggle, Johannes C. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896247
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Do more of those in misery suffer from poverty, unemployment or mental illness?
Flèche, Sarah; Layard, Richard - 2015
from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …
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