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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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Religion and growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …

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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 …

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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...

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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)...

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The grandkids aren't alright: the intergenerational effects of prenatal pollution exposure

Colmer, Jonathan; Voorheis, John - 2020

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The impact of parental health shocks on child schooling and labor : evidence from Thailand

Sasiwooth Wongmonta - 2023

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Technological change and skill obsolescence : the case of German apprenticeship training

Blechinger, Doris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1996

The paper analyses the applicability of vocational training and the earnings of apprentices using survey data from West Germany in 1979, 1985/86 and 1991/92. The applicability has decreased remarkably between 1979 and 1991/92. The objective of the analysis is a survey-data-based assessment of...

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Has earnings inequality in Germany changed in the 1980's?

Steiner, Viktor; Wagner, Kersten - 1996

The development of the West German earnings distribution in the 1980's is analysed on the basis of both the German Socio-Economic Panel and micro-data from the Employment Register of the Federal Labour Office. We find that earnings inequality in Germany has increased very little in the 1980's,...

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