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Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2015

We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of...

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Employment Effects of Payroll Tax Subsidies

Collischon, Matthias - 2020

This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships between subsidized and non-subsidized labor demand. We apply an instrumental variables approach and use administrative data on German...

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What Drives the Reversal of the Gender Education Gap? Evidence from Germany

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2015

We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on … three outcomes, graduation from upper secondary school, any tertiary education, and tertiary degree. Neither individual and … family background nor labor market characteristics appear to be strongly associated with the gender education gap. There is …

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Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment : Evidence for German Sons

Mäder, Miriam - 2014

survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation …

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Behavioral Effects of Probation Periods : An Analysis of Worker Absenteeism

Riphahn, Regina T.; Thalmaier, Anja - 2021

The theoretical probation literature shows that individuals have incentives to mimic "good workers" during periods of employment probation. This study empirically tests at the example of absence behavior, whether such behavioral responses to the incentives of probation periods exist. We find...

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Measuring the cyclicality of labour market flows using individual transitions

Riphahn, Regina T.; Schrader, Rebecca - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 7/9, pp. 643-647

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Applications to the U.S. Disability System : A Semiparametric Approach for Men and Women

Riphahn, Regina T.; Kreider, Brent - 2004

semiparametric discrete factor procedure separately for men and women. Approximating a dynamic optimization model, the estimation …

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Labor Force Transitions of Older Married Couples in Germany

Blau, David M.; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2023

This study investigates the labor force behavior of older married couples in Germany. Monthly observations from the first eleven waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) are used to describe and analyze the relationship between the labor force behavior of husbands and wives. The...

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