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Shortening the potential duration of unemployment benefits and labor market outcomes : evidence from a natural experiment in Germany

Petrunyk, Inna; Pfeifer, Christian - 2018

This paper explores the effects of a major reform of unemployment benefits in Germany on the labor market outcomes of … individuals with some health impairment. The reform induced a substantial reduction in the potential duration of regular … unemployment benefits for older workers. This work analyzes the reform in a wider framework of institutional interactions, which …

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Firms' wage structures, workers' fairness perceptions, job satisfaction and turnover intentions : evidence from linked employer-employee data

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Pfeifer, Christian - 2019

The paper uses novel data for Germany linking worker and establishment surveys with administrative social security data for all workers in the surveyed establishments. From these data, four variables are generated that describe a firm's wage structure and the positions of workers within it: (a)...

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A note on risk aversion and labour market outcomes : further evidence from German survey data

Pfeifer, Christian (contributor) - 2008

Using the large-scale German Socio-Economic Panel, this note reports direct empirical evidence for significant correlations between risk aversion and labour market outcomes (full-time employment, temporary agency work, fixed-term contracts, employer change, quits, training, wages, and job...

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Unfair wage perceptions and sleep : evidence from German survey data

Pfeifer, Christian - 2015

The author uses large-scale German survey data for the years 2009, 2011 and 2013 in order to analyze the nexus between the individual perception of being unfairly paid and measures for quantity and quality of sleep, namely, hours of sleep during workweek and during weekend, happiness with sleep,...

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Physical attractiveness, employment, and earnings

Pfeifer, Christian - 2011

Survey data is used to estimate the impact of physical attractiveness rated by the interviewer as well as by the respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to mean linear and non-linear effects on earnings, simultaneous quantile regressions are applied to...

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Analysing the gender wage gap using personnel records of a large German company

Pfeifer, Christian (contributor); Sohr, Tatjana (contributor) - 2008

) the unconditional GWG is 15 percent for blue-collar and 26 percent for white-collar workers; (2) conditional on tenure … GWG gets larger with tenure for blue-collar but smaller for white-collar workers; (7) individual absenteeism has no …

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Risk aversion and sorting into public sector employment

Pfeifer, Christian (contributor) - 2008

This research note uses two German data sets the large-scale German Socio-Economic Panel and unique data from own student questionnaires to analyse the relationship between risk aversion and the choice for public sector employment. Main results are: (1) more risk averse individuals sort into...

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