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The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity
Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan - 2023
This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0.8 years of schooling (12 percent) by moving from the South...
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Employer Preferences and Social Policy : Business and the Development of Job Security Regulations in Germany Since World War I
Emmenegger, Patrick - 2010
This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141224
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The Worth of Cities in Germany
Gehr, Katja; Pflüger, Michael - 2023
and households and the aggregate economy of Germany. We adopt alternative micro-foundations for agglomeration economies … Germany's labor markets, housing rents, and household travel-to-work data, to estimate the population elasticities of urban … benefits and costs. We are the first to establish elasticities for urban costs for Germany, an estimated elasticity of …
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Who is to Suffer? Quantifying the Impact of Sanctions on German Firms
Görg, Holger; Jacobs, Anna; Meuchelböck, Saskia - 2023
In this paper, we use a novel firm level dataset for Germany to investigate the effect of sanctions on export behaviour …
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Forward-Looking Labor Supply Responses to Changes in Pension Wealth : Evidence from Germany
Artmann, Elisabeth; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; GIUPPONI, … - 2023
We provide new evidence of forward-looking labor supply responses to changes in pension wealth. We exploit a 2014 German reform that increased pension wealth for mothers by an average of 4.4% per child born before January 1, 1992. Using administrative data on the universe of working histories,...
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Intergenerational Scars : The Impact of Parental Unemployment on Individual Health Later in Life
Ubaldi, Michele; Picchio, Matteo - 2023
This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence have poorer health once they reach the adulthood. We used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2002 until 2018. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of...
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Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective
D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2011
This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...
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The Nonlinear Link between Height and Wages : An Empirical Investigation
Hübler, Olaf - 2011
This article investigates the relationship between individual wages and height using the German Socio-Economic Panel where five hypotheses are tested. Some explanations of a positive link exist and empirical studies confirm this hypothesis. In contrast to previous investigations which are only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756948
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Works Councils and Separations : Voice, Monopoly, and Insurance Effects
Hirsch, Boris - 2009
Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763921
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Risk Attitude and Wage Growth : Replication and Reconstruction
Budría, Santiago - 2009
risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763923