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Regional structural change and the effects of job loss
Arntz, Melanie; Ivanov, Boris; Pohlan, Laura - 2022
Routine-intensive occupations have been declining in many countries, but how does this affect individual workers’ careers if this decline is particularly severe in their local labor market? This paper uses administrative data from Germany and a matched difference-in-differences approach to...
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Early retirement of employees in demanding jobs : evidence from a German pension reform
Geyer, Johannes; Lorenz, Svenja; Zwick, Thomas; Bruns, Mona - 2021
Early retirement options are usually targeted at employees at risk of not reaching their regular retirement age in employment. An important at‐risk group comprises employees who have worked in demanding jobs for many years. This group may be particularly negatively affected by the abolition of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012671878
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Income or leisure? : on the hidden benefits of (un-)employment
Chadi, Adrian; Hetschko, Clemens - 2017 - This version: August 8, 2017
We study the usually assumed trade-off between income and leisure in labor supply decisions using comprehensive German panel data. We compare non-employed individuals after plant closures with employed people regarding both income and time use as well as their subjective perceptions of these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011717715
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Long-term participation tax rates
Bartels, Charlotte - 2012
Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to reduce work incentives for lower income classes and to increase durations of unemployment. Standard studies measure work incentives based on annual income concepts. This paper analyzes how work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009630295
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The socio-economic module of the Berlin Aging Study II (SOEP-BASE) : description, structure, and questionnaire
Böckenhoff, Anke; Saßenroth, Denise; Kroh, Martin; … - 2013
The Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) is a multidisciplinary study that allows for the investigation of how a multitude …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009775660
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What determines the demand for occupational pensions in Germany?
Johansen, Kathrin - 2007 - This version: October 2007
Demographic change causes an undersupply of financial old age benefits within the statutory pay-as-you-go pension system in Germany. Therefore, the provision of occupational as well as private pensions has to be enhanced. However, there seems to be an undersupply of occupational pension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631443
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Explaining age and gender differences in employment rates : a labor supply side perspective
Humpert, Stephan; Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to explain the lower employment rates of older workers and women. The basic rationale is that workers choose non-employed if their reservation wages are larger than the offered wages. Whereas the offered wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009541695
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Does job loss make you smoke and gain weight?
Marcus, Jan - 2012
-adjusted semiparametric difference-in-difference matching strategy is robust against selection on observables and time-invariant unobservables …-in-difference estimator. The findings are robust over various matching specifications and different choices of the conditioning variables …. -- Job loss ; smoking ; body weight ; health behavior ; difference-in-difference ; propensity score matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009506495
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Time-varying individual risk attitudes over the Great Recession : a comparison of Germany and Ukraine
Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - 2015
We use the panel data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to investigate whether risk attitudes have primary (exogenous) determinants that are valid in different stages of economic development and in a different structural context,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376904
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The effect of unemployment on the mental health of spouses : evidence from plant closures in Germany
Marcus, Jan - 2012
-in-difference and matching based on entropy balancing to provide robustness against observable and time-invariant unobservable … ; mental health ; plant closure ; entropy balancing ; matching ; job loss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629544