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Do couples pool their income? : evidence from demand system estimation for Germany
Beznoska, Martin - 2019
the household is located in a former West or East German federal state. Married couples and couples with children are … closer to the acceptance of the hypothesis than unmarried couples without children. …
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Exploring the puzzle of human reproduction : register data based evidence from France and Germany
Lipowski, Cäcilia; Wilke, Ralf A.; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2020
analyse and directly compare fertility patterns in two major European economies over a period of 15 years. Strong evidence is … found that opportunity costs play a role in fertility decisions, and for a positive income effect for females with high … earnings. Females in Germany adapt their fertility behaviour more strongly in response to economic incentives than their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222196
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The impact of a negative labor demand shock on fertility : evidence from the fall of the Berlin Wall
Liepmann, Hannah - 2018
How does a negative labor demand shock impact fertility? I analyze this question in the context of the East German … fertility decline after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. I exploit differential pressure for restructuring across East …, women more severely impacted by the demand shock had relatively more children than their less-severely-impacted counterparts …
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Does the right to work part-time affect mothers' labor market outcomes?
Paule-Paludkiewicz, Hannah - 2024
This paper studies how the statutory right to work part-time affects mothers’ post-birth labor market outcomes. I use a differences-in-differences design to investigate a reform in Germany that granted the right to work part-time to employees of firms with more than 15 employees. I find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014548124
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Determinants of work-related training : an investigation of observed and unobserved firm-, job- and worker-heterogeneity
Steffes, Susanne; Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2019
One of the most important policy goals in industrialized countries is to increase the skill level of the labor force by life-long-learning strategies. In this paper our aim is to explain to what extent the variation in training investments is determined either by (observed and unobserved)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012014276
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Intergenerational mobility and self-selection of asylum seekers in Germany
Kolb, Michael; Neidhöfer, Guido; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2019 - This version, 13 June 2019
We exploit a novel survey of recently arrived asylum seekers in Germany in order to estimate the degree of intergenerational mobility in education among refugees and compare it to the educational mobility of similar-aged individuals in their region of origin. The findings show that the refugees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034744
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Working life and human capital investment : causal evidence from pension reform
Gohl, Niklas; Haan, Peter; Kurz, Elisabeth; Weinhardt, Felix - 2019
In this paper we present a life-cycle model with human capital investment during working life through training and provide a novel empirical test of human capital theory. Using a sizable pension reform which shifts the retirement age between two adjacent cohorts by three years, we document...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139004
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Regional favoritism and human capital accumulation in Africa
Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hufschmidt, Patrick - 2021
We study the long-run implications of regional and ethnic favoritism in Africa. Combining geocoded individual-level survey data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) with data on national leaders’ birthplaces across 41 African countries, we explore the educational attainment of adults...
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The grandkids aren't alright: the intergenerational effects of prenatal pollution exposure
Colmer, Jonathan; Voorheis, John - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487154
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Maternal depression and child human capital: a genetic instrumental-variable approach
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487247