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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; Marx, Paul - 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/10010269936
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The Value of Reunification in Germany: An Analysis of Changes in Life Satisfaction
Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael A. - 2002
We quantify the value of changes in life circumstances in Germany following reunification. To this end, we develop and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261522
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The Mortality Crisis in East Germany
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Riphahn, Regina T. - 1998
explaining mortality crises and their relevance for the case of East Germany. Based on individual-level panel data the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262254
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Participation Behavior of East German Women after German Unification
Bonin, Holger; Euwals, Rob - 2001
simultaneously explains participation, employment and wages. The model, estimated for East and West Germany on the basis of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262614
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Individual Rationality and Learning: Welfare Expectations in East Germany Post-Reunification
Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael A. - 2002
large shock to the future prospects of the inhabitants of the former East Germany. We therefore take it as a 'natural … and those with children. However, expectations and realizations of life satisfaction in East Germany had converged by 1995 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262741
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Does democracy foster trust?
Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2006
trusting attitude than West Germans. This suggests a negative effect of communism in East Germany versus democracy in West … Germany on social and institutional trust. However, the experience of democracy by East Germans since reunification did not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267922
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Child poverty and changes in child poverty in rich countries since 1990
Chen, Wen-Hao; Corak, Miles - 2005
This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg Income Study project, and focusing upon an analysis of the reasons for changes over the 1990s. The objective is to uncover the relative role of income transfers from the state in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272015
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Do Europe's minimum income schemes provide adequate shelter against the economic crisis and how, if at all, have governments responded?
Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha - 2011
The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changes that have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens with adequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on data for 24 European Union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282192
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A Forgotten Issue: Distributional Effects of Day Care Subsidies in Germany
Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spieß, Christa Katharina; … - 2000
effectively. In Germany, as in other European countries, child care subsidies are mainly provided ?in-kind?. Local communities and … the distributional effects of state funded child day care in Germany using microdata of households and data on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276750
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Sozioökonomische Determinanten extremistischer Wahlerfolge in Deutschland: Das Beispiel der Europawahlen 1994 und 1999
Rotte, Ralph; Steininger, Martin - 2000
Germany. We use a new data set on the level of German counties (Kreise) that is analyzed econometrically by a FGLS random …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262441