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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...

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The impact of education on personality : evidence from a German high school reform

Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014

traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001 …, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the … point to important heterogeneous effects. In addition to differences between East and West Germany, we find that male …

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The effect of local crime on well-being : evidence for Germany

Krekel, Christian; Poprawe, Marie L. - 2014

This paper investigates the effect of local crime on well-being in Germany, using data from the German Socio … satisfaction, makes residents worry more frequently, and worry more about crime in Germany. In particular, a 1% increase in the …

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Inequality-adjusted gender wage differentials in Germany

Skoglund, Ekaterina; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2013

This paper exploits data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to re-examine the gender wage gap in Germany on …, especially in East Germany. Women appear penalized twice, with both lower mean wages and greater wage inequality. A hypothetical …

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How far do children move? : spatial distances after leaving the parental home

Leopold, Thomas; Geißler, Ferdinand; Pink, Sebastian - 2011

single-parent household. At the community level, women from Eastern Germany moved farther, suggesting that the surplus of men …

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The bigger the children, the bigger the worries : are preschoolers and adolescents affected differently by family instability with regard to non-cognitive skills?

Peter, Frauke; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2011 - This version: 13 March 2011

Substantial research on the relationship between family structures and child outcomes represents a considerable part of the literature. However, family structure provides a rather static view of the relationship of children's living arrangements and their well-being, revealing hardly anything...

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Task-biased changes of employment and remuneration : the case of occupations

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011

into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …

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Revisiting the income-health nexus : the importance of choosing the "right" indicator

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010

We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...

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Does immigration weaken natives' support for the welfare state? : evidence from Germany

Stichnoth, Holger - 2010

Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...

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Inequality aversion and risk attitudes

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2010

Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect...

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