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How causal is separation? : lessons learnt from endogenous switching regression models for single mothers' economic strain in Germany
Birkeneder, Antonia; Boll, Christina - 2021
, comparing average women with mean characteristics, the actually (non-)separated earn lower (higher) wages than women who are …
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Wirkungen eines Betreuungsgeldes bei bedarfsgerechtem Ausbau frühkindlicher Kindertagesbetreuung : eine Mikrosimulationsstudie
Beninger, Denis; Bonin, Holger; Horstschräer, Julia; … - 2010
Der Beitrag evaluiert die Wirkungen eines Betreuungsgeldes bei gleichzeitigem Ausbau der öffentlich geförderten Tagesbetreuung für Kinder im Alter von 13 bis 36 Monaten. Wir schätzen mit SOEP-Daten und unter Berücksichtigung partiell beobachtbarer Rationierungen im Betreuungsbereich ein...
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Intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt : evidence from Germany
Feichtmayer, Jennifer; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2023
We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014458450
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Old times, better times? German Miners’ Knappschaften, pay-as-you-go pensions, and implicit rates of return, 1854-1913
Jopp, Tobias Alexander - 2011
This paper contributes to the literature on the weakness of modern pay-as-yougo social security systems in financing pensions by taking a business and economic historical perspective on the issue. It focuses on Prussian Knappschaften (plural of Knappschaft), which provided miners with compulsory...
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Like father, like son : inheriting and bequeathing
Kunze, Lars - 2012
Empirical evidence suggests that parents who have themselves inherited from their own parents are more likely to leave an estate to their children even after controlling for income, wealth and education. This implies an indirect reciprocal behavior between three generations by transmitting the...
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The introduction of Bismarck's social security system and its effects on marriage and fertility in Prussia
Guinnane, Timothy; Streb, Jochen - 2021
wealth. We test this claim using the introduction of social insurance in Germany in the period 1881-1910. Bismarck’s social … Sozialversicherung in Deutschland im Zeitraum von 1881 bis 1910. Bismarcks Sozialversicherungssystem hatte drei Säulen …
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The introduction of social pensions and elderly mortality : evidence 1870-1939
Jäger, Philipp - 2019
The strong association between income and mortality raises the question whether more generous social security systems could improve poor people’s health outcomes. Thus, in this paper, I analyze whether a major social security innovation, the introduction of social pensions targeted at poor...
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Why do German men marry women from less developed countries? : an analysis of transnational partner search based on the German Socio-Economic Panel
Glowsky, David - 2007
This paper examines why German men marry women from countries which are less economically developed. Two hypotheses … the economic gap between their countries of origin, German men can marry comparatively more attractive women on the … international marriage market than they could hope to attract within Germany. The analysis uses data from the German Socio …
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Examining the gender wealth gap in Germany
Sierminska, Eva; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2008
evidence for a significant gender wealth gap of about 30,000 euros in Germany, which amounts to almost 50,000 euros for married … partners. Decomposition analyses reveal that this gap is mostly driven by differences in characteristics between men and women … appear to be driven mostly by the wealth function, i.e., the way in which women transform their characteristics into wealth. …
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Do couples bargain over fertility? : evidence based on child preference data
Hener, Timo - 2010
Empirical literature has found evidence in favor of household bargaining models. In contrast to earlier tests that are limited to assignable private goods, we use child preference data in order to extend the empirical evidence on household bargaining to public household goods. In the empirical...
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