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markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …
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markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286898
We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects. -- Female labor supply ; fertility ; child subsidy ; parents money
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the fall of the iron curtain in East Germany and compare the relevance of parental educational background for secondary … schooling outcomes in East and West Germany. Based on data from the German Mikrozensus we find that educational mobility is … lower in East than in West Germany and that it has been falling in East Germany after unification. While the educational …
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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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yields that Germany features particularly low intergenerational mobility with respect to educational attainment. This study … investigates the development in intergenerational education mobility in Germany for the birth cohorts 1929 through 1978 and tests …
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markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s … ; earnings mobility ; income mobility ; Germany ; East Germany ; inequality ; transition matrix ; Shorrocks index …
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. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences … West German low employment patterns. -- employment ; mothers ; parental leave ; East Germany ; child care …
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