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This paper summarizes the findings of studies which investigate the determinants of wages in Germany, using data of the … sector, in East and West Germany, for men and women, as well as in large versus small firms. Among the most interesting …
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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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We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on …
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heterogeneity in returns to tenure for men in East and West Germany, employed in both the private and the public sector. We find … significantly different wage patterns in East- and West Germany as well as between the private and public sector. Independent of the … the first ten years of experience - and in contrast to the situation in West Germany - there appear to be no returns to …
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We exploit the 1996 reform of the German child benefit program to identify the causal effect of heterogeneous child benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied substantially by household income and sibship size. We use these...
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We investigate the causal effect of age at migration on subsequent educational attainment in the destination country. To identify the causal effect we compare the educational attainment of siblings at age 21, exploiting the fact that they typically migrate at different ages within a given...
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Using long-running data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984-2012) we investigate the impact of paternal unemployment on child labor market and education outcomes. We first describe correlation patterns and then use sibling fixed effects and the Gottschalk (1996) method to identify the...
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This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...
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study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and …
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We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation …
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