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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2016
This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613463
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Hartz and minds: Happiness effects of reforming an employment agency
Deter, Max - 2020
Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment … unemployment rate. Also unemployed persons who exogenously lost their jobs are affected by the reforms. In line with the structure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294311
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Female Labor Supply and Parental Leave Benefits: The Causal Effect of Paying Higher Transfers for a Shorter Period of Time
Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009
We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600805
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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment
Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - 2009
While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600839
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Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave
Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017
We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that had paid benefits for up to two years was replaced by an earnings related transfer which paid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622582
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Female Labor Supply and Parental Leave Benefits: The Causal Effect of Paying Higher Transfers for a Shorter Period of Time
Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017401
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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment
Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018699
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Do more of those in misery suffer from poverty, unemployment or mental illness?
Flèche, Sarah; Layard, Richard - 2015
from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314547
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(Mis-)predicted subjective well-being following life events
Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2015
. This is done after the individuals experience widowhood, marriage, unemployment or disability. We find systematic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335342
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The causal effect of paternal unemployment on children's personality
Angelini, Viola; Bertoni, Marco; Corazzini, Luca - 2015
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that paternal unemployment has a … longitudinal value-added models for personality suggest that paternal unemployment makes children significantly more conscientious …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379819