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The devil is in the details : heterogeneous effects of the german minimum wage on working hours and minijobs
Bossler, Mario; Liang, Ying; Schank, Thorsten - 2024
In 2015, Germany introduced a national minimum wage. While the literature agrees on at most limited negative effects on …
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Changing fertility and heterogeneous motherhood effects : revisiting the effects of a parental benefits reform
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - 2024
outcomes in Germany, the child penalty. We further investigate how the 2007 parental benefits reform changed the child penalty …
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Can voluntary adult education reduce unemployment? : causal evidence from East Germany after reunification
Rupieper, Li Kathrin Kaja; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2024
After the German Reunification in 1990, East Germany transitioned from a centrally planned economic system to a market …-level analysis of East Germany between 1991 and 2002. Our identification strategy is based on a decentralized expansion of courses … average. Yet, in counties neighboring West Germany, we find that courses reduced unemployment. Low labor demand may have …
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Parental investments and socio-economic gradients in learning across European countries
Carneiro, Pedro; Reis, Hugo; Toppeta, Alessandro - 2024
Generous maternity leave, affordable daycare, extensive social safety nets, excellent universal health care, and high-quality public schools, are all notable features of Nordic countries. There is a widespread belief that such strong public investments in children contribute to a levelled...
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Violence against women and the substitution of help services in times of lockdown : triangulation of three data sources in Germany
Ebert, Cara; Steinert, Janina - 2024
We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence against women in Germany in 2020. The analysis draws …
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The demise of works councils in Germany
Kohaut, Susanne; Schnabel, Claus - 2024
This paper documents and analyses the demise of works councils in Germany in the period 2007-2022. Using representative … the public sector. Almost two-thirds of workers in the private sector in Germany are not covered by worker co … owner-management of a plant. As our results paint a bleak picture for the future of plant-level co-determination in Germany …
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Do politicians affect firm outcomes? : evidence from connections to the German federal parliament
Diegmann, André; Pohlan, Laura; Weber, Andrea - 2024
We study how connections to German federal parliamentarians affect firm dynamics by constructing a novel dataset to measure connections between politicians and the universe of firms. To identify the causal effect of access to political power, we exploit (i) new appointments to the company...
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Fiskalische Effekte der Zuwanderung nach Deutschland : eine Generationenbilanz
Bonin, Holger - 2001
Deutschland. Mit Hilfe der Generationenbilanzierung werden die Nettosteuerzahlungen von Zuwanderern von ihrer Ankunft im … Aufnahmeland bis an ihr Lebensende geschätzt. Wenn künftige Einwanderer der heute in Deutschland lebenden Ausländerbevölkerung …
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Education promoted secularization
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - 2014
Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...
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