unemployment. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in …

This paper explores determinants of church attendance and the formation of 'religious human capital' in Germany within … find, not too surprisingly, that strength of belief is much lower in the formerly atheistic East Germany. It is however not …

Recent years have witnessed a rise in right-wing extremism among German youth and young adults. This paper investigates … the extent to which the experience of parental unemployment during childhood affects young people's far right … parents and right-wing extremism, with xenophobia in particular. This paper uses stark differences in unemployment levels …

different labor market-regimes are selected as examples (Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Ireland, UK). Within these …

, pushing the low skilled into unemployment. This latter hypothesis is confirmed by analyzing the effects of changes in labor … supply on unemployment. -- Immigration ; labor supply shocks ; border controls …

In contrast to unemployment, the effect of non-participation and parttime employment on subjective well-being has much … less frequently been the subject of economists' investigations. In Germany, many women with dependent children are … mothers, non-participation is revealed to be a more serious problem than unemployment. -- Subjective well-being ; life …

unemployment is often ignored. Both issues are particularly important in high unemployment regimes like East Germany where a wage … regional labour markets. However, distortions in extracting the regional unemployment effects arise in standard regional (i …. The analysis gives evidence on a locally but not a spatially cointegrated wage curve for East Germany. …