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Minimum wage incidence : the case for Germany

Knabe, Andreas (contributor); Schöb, Ronnie (contributor) - 2008

than statutory minimum wages. Combining a minimum wage with a wage subsidy, similar to the French minimum wage system, is …

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Dissatisfied with life, but having a good day : time-use and well-being of the unemployed

Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Schöb, Ronnie; … - 2009

We apply the Day Reconstruction Method to compare unemployed and employed people with respect to their subjective assessment of emotional affects, differences in the composition and duration of activities during the course of a day, and their self-reported life satisfaction. Employed persons are...

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Changing identity : retiring from unemployment

Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2011

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...

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The subjective well-being of workfare participants : insights from a day reconstruction survey

Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - 2015

Germany. We examine two subdimensions of subjective well-being - life satisfaction and emotional well-being - separately to …

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Partnership, gender roles and the well-being cost of unemployment

Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - 2012

We use the differences between life satisfaction and emotional well-being of employed and unemployed persons to analyze how a person's employment status affects cognitive well-being. Our results show that unemployment has a negative impact on cognitive, but not on affective well-being, which we...

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Income support, (un-)employment and well-being

Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016

Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the nonpecuniary life satisfaction effects of in-work benefits. Our empirical strategy combines difference-in-difference designs with synthetic control groups to analyze transitions of workers between unemployment,...

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Minimum wages and their alternatives : a critical assessment

Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2008

Do minimum wages reduce in-work-poverty and wage inequality? Or can alternative policies do better? We evaluate theses … issues for the exemplary case of Germany that suffers from high unemployment among low-skilled workers and rising wage … in Germany, on employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and incomes of poor households: 1) a statutory minimum …

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Marginal employment subsidization : a new concept and a reappraisal

Knabe, Andreas (contributor); Schöb, Ronnie (contributor); … - 2006

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Workfare in Germany and the problem of vertical fiscal externalities

Feist, Holger; Schöb, Ronnie - 1999

Social assistance to the poor is increasingly subject to compulsory work requirements in Germany. Municipalities have … wages and social insurance contributions if they accept the offer, but lose social assistance if they reject it. Further …

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