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Does religion influence the labour supply of married women in Germany?

Heineck, Guido - 2002

On behavioural theory basis, this article analyses whether religion influences married women in Germany in their …

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Gaining access to housing in Germany : the foreign minority experience

Drever, Anita I.; Clark, William A. V. - 2002

Housing is a critical component of household well being and the extent to which minority households have achieved parity with Germans is a measure of the extent to which this population is integrated into the larger German society. Specifically we examine whether the housing conditions for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436184

Youth unemployment : individual risk factors and institutional determinants : a case study of Germany and the United Kingdom

Isengard, Bettina - 2002

risk factors for Germany and the United Kingdom in particular in the mid of the 90ths. The study for the two selected … welfare state structures and policies may determine labour market outcomes. Germany and the United Kingdom responded to the …

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Are people inequality averse, and do they prefer redistribution by the state? : evidence from German longitudinal data on life satisfaction

Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2002

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436192

German exports to the euro area

Stephan, Sabine - 2002

The growth of the German economy intrinsically depends on the development of German exports to the euro area, which is by far the biggest market for German products. The paper estimates a structural equation for the export demand from the EMU member countries, which is suitable for both...

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The effect of maternity leave on women's pay in Germany 1984-1994

Ondrich, Jan I.; Spieß, C. Katharina; Yang, Qing - 2002 - Revised May 2002

In 1986 German federal parental leave and benefit policy was expanded in several ways, extending the potential duration of leave from six to ten months and paying child-rearing benefits to all new mothers regardless of their employment status before childbirth. The potential duration has...

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A multilevel analysis of child care and the transition to motherhood in Western Germany

Hank, Karsten; Kreyenfeld, Michaela - 2002

in Germany. We argue that in the European institutional context the availability of public day care and informal child …

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The covariance structure of East and West German incomes and its implications for the persistence of poverty and inequality

Biewen, Martin - 2002

Germany in the eighties and nineties. Special emphasis is given to the separation of permanent and transitory components, the … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component …

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Long-term effects of unpaid overtime : evidence for West Germany

Pannenberg, Markus - 2002

overtime in West Germany. A descriptive analysis suggests that over a 10-year period workers with unpaid overtime experience on …

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Respondent behavior in panel studies : a case study for income-nonresponse by means of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)

Schräpler, Jörg-Peter - 2002

-economic information of private households in the Federal Republic of Germany. We explain the evolution of income-nonresponse in the GSOEP …

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