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The causal effect of age at migration on youth educational attainment
Lemmermann, Dominique; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017
to a high age at immigration than that of males. Also, language skills do not appear to be central for the causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662703
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Do immigrants bring good health?
Giuntella, Osea; Mazzonna, Fabrizio - 2014
This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … component of the data to analyse how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time. Upon their arrival … population. Our results suggest that immigration reduces the likelihood that residents report negative health outcomes. We show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010355347
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Marital sorting, inequality and the role of female labor supply : evidence from east and west Germany
Pestel, Nico - 2015
This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past three decades, while explicitly taking into account labor supply choices. Using rich micro data, the observed distribution of couples' earnings is compared to a counterfactual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317821
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Wo(men) at work? : the impact of cohabiting and married partners' earning on women's work hours
Triebe, Doreen - 2013
This study investigates the determinants of women's labor supply in the household context. The main focus is on the effect of a change in male partner's wages on women's work hours. This is linked to the broader question of whether married and cohabiting women make different economic decisions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231584
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Beyond inequality accounting : marital sorting and couple labor supply
Pestel, Nico - 2014
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421537
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The added worker effect differentiated by gender and partnership status : evidence from involuntary job loss
Triebe, Doreen - 2015
This paper examines the added worker effect (AWE), which refers to the increase of labor supply of individuals in response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies focus on married women's response to those shocks, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010493166
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Does intermarriage pay off? : a panel data analysis
Nottmeyer, Olga - 2010
Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as … from intermarriage vanish and do not differ from premiums from marriage between immigrants. However, immigrants who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826431
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Do you really want to share everything? : the wellbeing of work-linked couples
Hennecke, Juliane; Hetschko, Clemens - 2021
Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially so if partners work in the same occupation or industry. At the same time, being work-linked may benefit their career success. Still, surprisingly little is known about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012511425
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Effects of early childhood intervention on fertility and maternal employment : evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Sandner, Malte - 2015
effects of the intervention on maternal employment, welfare benefits, and household composition. The study reveals that the … intervention unintentionally decreased maternal employment and increased subsequent births. These results contradict those of … previous studies from the United States, where home visiting programs successfully increased employment and decreased fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391650
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Bitterness in life and attitudes towards immigration
Poutvaara, Panu; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2015
provide new evidence on the determinants of individual attitudes towards immigration, using data from the 2005 and 2010 waves … about immigration. This effect cannot be explained just by concerns that immigrants are competing with oneself in thelabor … market. Instead, it appears that people who feel that they have not got what they deserve in life oppose immigration for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391693