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Subsidized small jobs and maternal labor market outcomes in the long run

Collischon, Matthias; Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2024

This paper investigates whether incentives generated by public policies contribute to motherhood penalties. Specifically, we study the consequences of subsidized small jobs, the German Minijobs, which are frequently taken up by first-time mothers upon labor market return. Using a combination of...

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The employment of mothers : recent developments and their determinants in East and West Germany

Broadway, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2010

. 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 …

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Apprenticeship, vocational training and early labor market outcomes : in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Zibrowius, Michael - 2015

differences for different types of vocational training, minor differences between East and West Germany and males and females, and …

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Employment effects of payroll tax subsidies

Collischon, Matthias; Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2018

This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships between subsidized and non-subsidized labor demand. We apply an instrumental variables approach and use administrative data on German...

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Phasing out payroll tax subsidies

Herget, Anna; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2024

Many countries subsidize low-income employments or small jobs. These subsidies and their phasing out can generate labor market frictions and distort incentives. The German Minijob program subsidizes low-income jobs. It generates a 'Minijob trap' with substantial bunching along the earnings...

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Sustainability of German fiscal policy and public debt : historical and time series evidence for the period 1850-2010

Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2013

default. Due to a multitude of large scale events in its past, Germany is far from being an exception: In fact, Germany … Germany's public finances against the standard theoretical background using a unique database, retrieved from multiple sources … historical perception of Germany as the poster child of European public finance. Given these corresponding breaks in time series …

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Intergenerational transmission of unemployment : evidence for German sons

Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - 2014

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...

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Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany : patterns and developments

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014

We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage age and education, with the income of the teenager's family, with migration status, residence in East Germany, and …

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Panel cointegration tests on the fiscal sustainability of German Laender

Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2014

newly compiled database covering the years 1950 - 2011. Unlike previous studies on Germany, we analyze fiscal sustainability …

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Fiscal sustainability of the German Laender : time series evidence

Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2014

Germany using an unprecedentedly comprehensive fiscal dataset for the time period from 1950 to 2011 for West German Laender …

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