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Pension Reform Options for Russia and Ukraine: A Critical Analysis of Available Options and Their Expected Outcomes (with a Focus on Labour Market, Industrial Restructuring and Pub...

Góra, Marek; Rohozynsky, Oleksandr; Sinyavskaya, Oxana - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Russia and Ukraine are in the process of many changes stemming from economic transition, restructuring, demographic change and other various ongoing challenges. In terms of the ongoing challenges in each country, there are specific problems related to historical developments, such as large scale...

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Financial Support for Families with Children and Its Trade-Offs: Balancing Redistribution and Parental Work Incentives

Myck, Michal; Kurowska, Anna; Kundera, Michal - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In … employment of their parents. We analyse several kinds of trade-offs involved using a careful selection of potential changes to … the system of financial support for families with children. We focus on: 1) the trade-off between redistribution of income …

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Family and Labor Market Choices: Requirements to Guide Effective Evidence-Based Policy

Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michal; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

levels among families with children. …

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The Effect of Family Income during Childhood on Later-life Attainment: Evidence from Germany

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Schluter, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a …-born German children and non-existent for children from guestworker households. Income effects are also small relative to the …

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Extreme Weather Events and Child Height: Evidence from Mongolia

Groppo, Valeria; Schindler, Kati - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

significantly slowed the growth trajectory of exposed children from herding households. This negative effect is still observable … experienced head are better able to protect their children from the negative consequences of the 2009/10 winter shock. There are …

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Post-Socialist Transition and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education in Kyrgyzstan

Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

We investigate long-term trends in the intergenerational transmission of education in a low income country undergoing a transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that...

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Labor Supply of Married Females in Estonia

Siliverstovs, Boriss; Koulikov, Dmitri - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

In this paper we estimate the labor supply function for married females in Estonia. Particularly, we are interested in determining the elasticities of the weekly supply of hours with respect to hourly wage rates and with respect to nonlabor income. We adopt the two-step estimation procedure. In...

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Building the Minimum Wage: Germany's First Sectoral Minimum Wage and Its Impact on Wages in the Construction Industry

Rattenhuber, Pia - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

The very first minimum wage in Germany was introduced in 1997 for blue-collar workers in sub-sectors of the construction industry. In the setting of a natural experiment blue-collar workers in neighboring 4-digit-industries and white-collar workers are used as control groups for...

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Two Steps Forward - One Step Back?: Evaluating Contradicting Child Care Policies in Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

effective for all children aged one year or older. Second, a new benefit called 'Betreuungsgeld' came into effect that is … granted to families who do not use public or publicly subsidized child care. Both reforms target children of the same age … group and are unconditional on the parents' income or employment status, yet affect mothers' incentives for labor supply and …

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Moving up a Gear: The Impact of Compressing Instructional Time into Fewer Years of Schooling

Huebener, Mathias; Marcus, Jan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

Policy-makers face a trade-off between the provision of higher levels of schooling and earlier labour market entries. A fundamental education reform in Germany tackles this trade-off by reducing high school by one year while leaving the total instructional time unchanged. Employing...

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