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Is a sorrow shared a sorrow doubled? : parental unemployment and the life satisfaction of adolescent children

Borah, Melanie; Knabe, Andreas; Lücke, Christine - 2023

This paper examines possible spillover effects of parental unemployment on the subjective wellbeing of 12- to 21-year-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their children's life satisfaction. When controlling...

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Right-wing extremism and the well-being of immigrants

Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2009

This study analyzes the effects of right-wing extremism on the well-being of immigrants based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2006 merged with state-level information on election outcomes. The results show that the life satisfaction of immigrants is...

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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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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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Outside earnings, absence, and activity : evidence from German parliamentarians

Arnold, Felix; Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014

We examine moonlighting by politicians in Germany. In July 2007, the German Supreme Court adjudicated that members of … contributions, interpellations, and group initiatives. We propose that the results for Germany do not corroborate evidence on other …

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Government ideology and tuition fee policy : evidence from the German states

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2013

In January 2005 the German Supreme Court permitted the state governments to charge tuition fees. By exploiting the natural experiment, we examine how government ideology influenced the introduction of tuition fees. The results show that rightwing governments were active in introducing tuition...

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Marginal employment subsidization : a new concept and a reappraisal

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

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Top incomes and top taxes in Germany

Bach, Stefan (contributor); Corneo, Giacomo (contributor); … - 2006

We analyze the distribution and taxation of top incomes in Germany during the 1990s on the basis of individual tax … findings are as follows: (i) incomes are highly concentrated in Germany, more than commonly thought; (ii) the German economic … concentrated in Germany, more than commonly thought; (iv) although effective tax rates are significantly lower than statutory ones …

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Minimum wages and their alternatives : a critical assessment

Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2008

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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Boon or bane? : others' unemployment, well-being and job insecurity

Clark, Andrew E.; Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2008

The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a far smaller effect on the unemployed. We use German panel data to reproduce this standard result, but then suggest that the appropriate distinction may not be between employment...

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