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The Employment of Mothers - Recent Developments and their Determinants in East and West Germany

Hanel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - CESifo - 2010

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers …. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences … differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives particularly for low …

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Partnership, Gender Roles and the Well-Being Cost of Unemployment

Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - CESifo - 2012

We use the differences between life satisfaction and emotional well-being of employed and unemployed persons to analyze how a person’s employment status affects cognitive well-being. Our results show that unemployment has a negative impact on cognitive, but not on affective well-being, which...

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The Costs of Organized Violence: A Review of the Evidence

Skaperdas, Stergios - CESifo - 2009

I critically review recent studies that estimate those costs of violence and conflict that can emerge among organized political groupings, from states, religious and ethnic organizations to guerillas and paramilitaries. The review includes studies that estimate direct and indirect costs due to...

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Nineteenth Century Biological Conditions on the High Central Plains

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2012

Little work has been done on the biological conditions for the US Central Plains. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, black and white statures in Nebraska increased with economic development, indicating that biological conditions improved as Nebraska’s output market and...

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Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment

Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2011

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...

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Trust, Racial Fragmentation and Income Inequality: New Evidence from the U.S.

Tesei, Andrea - CESifo - 2014

Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income inequality and greater racial fragmentation. I add to this literature by examining the role of income inequality between racial groups (racial income inequality). I find that...

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African-American and White Inequality in the American South: Evidence from the 19th Century Missouri State Prison

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2007

remained approximately constant throughout the 19th century, while black youth stature increased considerably during the …

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Health, Wealth and Inequality: a Contribution to the Debate about the Relationship between Inequality and Health

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2008

The relationship between material inequality and health is the subject of considerable debate, and may depend on how the relationship is defined. This paper uses stature as its measure for cumulative health outcomes to illustrate that the 19th century relationship between material inequality and...

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Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being

Lalive, Rafael; Stutzer, Alois - CESifo - 2004

Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens’ approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss constitution as a proxy for the norm that “women and men...

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Right-Wing Extremism and the Well-Being of Immigrants

Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Thomsen, Stephan L. - CESifo - 2009

This study analyzes the effects of right-wing extremism on the well-being of immigrants based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2006 merged with state-level information on election outcomes. The results show that the life satisfaction of immigrants is...

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