study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and … exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental variable estimation. In our sample of recent immigrants, linear …

. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences … time. -- employment ; mothers ; parental leave ; East Germany ; child care …

We investigate the unemployment pathway to retirement in Germany and study the causal effects of two early retirement …

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …

We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on …

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

We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation …