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Out-of-partnership births in East and West Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe; Chadi, Cornelia - 2019
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that single women in East Germany are significantly … more likely to give birth to a child than single women in West Germany. This applies to both planned and unplanned births …. Our analysis provides no evidence that the difference between East and West Germany can be explained by economic factors …
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Breaking the divide : can public spending on social infrastructure boost female employment in Italy?
Reljic, Jelena; Zezza, Francesco - 2024 - Draft paper
We contribute to the long-standing debate on the Italian North-South divide by assessing the impact of public spending on social infrastructure - including education, healthcare, childcare and social assistance - on the gender employment gap over the last two decades, using a PSVAR analysis....
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Household portfolios in Germany
Börsch-Supan, Axel; Eymann, Angelika - 2000
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The statutory minimum wage in Germany and the labor demand elasticities of low-skilled workers : a regression discontinuity approach with establishment panel data
Kölling, Arnd - 2020 - This version: October 16th, 2020
This study examines the influence of the statutory minimum wage on labor demand elasticities regarding low-skilled workers. For this, a regression discontinuity analysis is conducted using company panel data from 2013 to 2018. In addition, a possible endogeneity of the remuneration for...
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Moving up the social ladder? : wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
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Arbeitsmarkt für Frauen 2000 : ein Schritt vor oder ein Schritt zurück?; Kompendium zur Erwerbstätigkeit von Frauen
Beckmann, Petra (ed.); Engelbrech, Gerhard (contributor) - 1994
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Bedingungen der Frauenerwerbsarbeit im deutsch-deutschen Einigungsprozess
Engelbrech, Gerhard (contributor) - 1992
Inhalt: Nickel, Hildegard-Maria: Frauen und Arbeitsmarktforschung in der ehemaligen DDR (3 Thesen). - Engelbrech, Gerhard: Der Arbeitsmarkt für Frauen in den alten und neuen Bundesländern. - Schenk, Sabine: Qualifikationsstruktur und Qualifikationsbedarf erwerbstätiger Frauen in den neuen...
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If not now, when? : the timing of childbirth and labour market outcomes
Picchio, Matteo; Pigini, Claudia; Staffolani, Stefano; … - 2018
We study the effect of childbirth and its timing on female labour market outcomes in Italy. The impact on yearly labour earnings and participation is traced up to 21 years since school completion by estimating a factor analytic model with dynamic selection into treatments. We find that...
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The occupations of free women and substitution with enslaved workers in the antebellum United States
Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2022
This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It considers both their reported and unreported (imputed) occupations, using the 1/100 IPUMS files from the 1860 Census of Population. After developing and testing the model based on...
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The long-term effect of FIFA World Cup on gender gap in education and employment : evidence from Vietnam
Cuong Viet Nguyen; Tran, Anh Ngoc - 2021
The FIFA Soccer World Cups often happen within one month just before the national entrance exam to universities and colleges in Vietnam. Watching soccermatches can distract male students from their studiesand reduce their probability to pass the exam. We find that Vietnamese men who had the...
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