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Work Hours Constraints and Health
Bell, David; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important not only at the individual level but also for governmental formation of work time policy. Our study investigates this question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between...
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Job Insecurity, Employability, and Health: An Analysis for Germany across Generations
Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
In this paper, we use 12 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the relationship between job insecurity, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life satisfaction and health. They also, however,...
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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children
Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129014
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20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity
Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527284
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Unternehmensgründungen von Ausländern in Deutschland: Einkommenseffekte und Implikationen für die Gründungslehre
Block, Jörn; Sandner, Philipp; Wagner, Marcus; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
regular employment position. Second, foreigners seem to gain more from self-employment relative to Germans. The earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017375
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Self-Employment and Geographical Mobility in Germany
Reuschke, Darja - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399837
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Has Atypical Work Become Typical in Germany?: Country Case Studies on Labour Market Segmentation
Eichhorst, Werner; Tobsch, Verena - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
This paper gives an overview of the transformation of the German labor market since the mid-1990s with a special focuson the changing patterns of labor market segmentation or "dualization" of employment in Germany. While labor market duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010787004
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Wirkungen eines Betreuungsgeldes bei bedarfsgerechtem Ausbau frühkindlicher Kindertagesbetreuung: eine Mikrosimulationsstudie
Beninger, Denis; Bonin, Holger; Horstschräer, Julia; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
Der Beitrag evaluiert die Wirkungen eines Betreuungsgeldes bei gleichzeitigem Ausbau der öffentlich geförderten Tagesbetreuung für Kinder im Alter von 13 bis 36 Monaten. Wir schätzen mit SOEP-Daten und unter Berücksichtigung partiell beobachtbarer Rationierungen im Betreuungsbereich ein...
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Immigrant Fertility in Germany: The Role of Culture
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
This paper focuses on the role of home country’s fertility culture in shaping immigrants’ fertility. I use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first-generation immigrants who arrived from different countries and in different years. The variation in total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185781
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Beyond Inequality Accounting: Marital Sorting and Couple Labor Supply
Pestel, Nico - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly …. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of observed and randomly matched couples are compared to each other …. Earnings of hypothetical couples are adjusted for changes in hours worked given the differences in the household context using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010942876