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Conspicuous Consumption and Communism : Evidence from East and West Germany
Friehe, Tim - 2012
This paper investigates the influence of the political regime on the relative importance of conspicuous consumption. We use the separation of Germany into the communist GDR and the democratic FRG and its reunification in 1990 as a natural experiment. Relying on household data that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100938
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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage Market Value of Young Men
Autor, David H. - 2018
, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and … reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with prominent sociological accounts, these shocks heighten male idleness and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916528
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Wage Inequality in Germany : Disentangling Demand and Supply Effects
Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2021
In this paper we conduct a counterfactual analysis and estimate the quantitative importance of demand and supply effects on wage inequality in Germany using a dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the Auerbach-Kotlikoff (1987) type. Specifically, the methodological contribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316312
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The Employment of Mothers - Recent Developments and Their Determinants in East and West Germany
Broadway, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2021
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 disappear over time, and whether there are differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316151
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From Politics to the Family : How Sex-Role Attitudes Keep on Diverging in Reunified Germany
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rainer, Helmut - 2021
What is the role of politics in shaping attitudes about appropriate roles for women in the family and the compatibility of work and motherhood? In this paper we argue that the German separation and later reunification produced a natural experiment to address this question. During the divided...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316245
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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 disappear over time, and whether there are differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671706
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The Effect of Investment in Children's Education on Fertility in 1816 Prussia
Becker, Sascha O. - 2010
The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135779
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Household Relational Contracts for Marriage, Fertility and Divorce
Fahn, Matthias - 2011
the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117792
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Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia
Becker, Sascha O. - 2011
factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine … their fertility before the demographic transition. Despite controlling for several demand and supply factors, we find a … negative residual effect of women's education on fertility. Instrumental‐variable estimates, using exogenous variation in women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125696
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Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011
This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125698