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Late-career unemployment and cognitive abilities
Freise, Diana; Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2022
We study the effect of unemployment on cognitive abilities among individuals aged between 50 and 65 in Europe. To this end, we exploit plant closures and use flexible event-study estimations together with an experimentally elicited measure of fluid intelligence, namely word recall. We find that,...
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Effects of the Bologna Reform on educational outcomes: Micro evidence from Germany
Hahm, Sabrina; Kluve, Jochen - 2016
The Bologna Process aimed at harmonizing European higher education systems and at increasing their efficiency. This paper analyzes impacts of the Bologna Reform for Germany by using unique micro data from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU). We estimate treatment effects on the probability to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541432
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Heterogeneous effects of high school peers on educational outcomes
Mendolia, Silvia; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Walker, Ian - 2016
We investigate the relationship between peers' abilities and educational outcomes at the end of high school using data from the rich Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE) matched to the National Pupil Database of children in state schools in England. In particular, we focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444947
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Intensive informal care and impairments in work productivity and activity
Kolodziej, Ingo; Coe, Norma B.; Van Houtven, Courtney Harold - 2023
Informal care reduces work on the intensive and extensive margins; however, we do not know how caregiving affects work productivity. We link two new unique national U.S. data sets to provide the first causal estimates of the effect of providing at least 80 hours of informal care in the past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278720
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Does height affect labor supply? Implications of product variety and caloric needs
Micheli, Martin - 2015
The positive correlation between hourly wages and height, which results in higher labor supply of tall individuals, is … well-documented in the literature. Accepting the utilitarian perspective and assuming that height does not affect utility … implies that linking income taxes to height is welfare improving. This paper argues that height might not only affect an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301357
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Why Are More Boys Born During War? - Evidence from Germany at Mid Century
Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2009
In belligerent countries, male-to-female sex ratios at birth increased during and shortly after the two world wars. These rises still defy explanation. Several causes have been suggested (but not tested) in the literature. Many of these causes are proximate in nature, reflecting behavioral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265812
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The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants – Evidence for Post-War Germany
Bauer, Thomas K.; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2011
The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their off spring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287278
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The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants – Evidence for Post-War Germany
Bauer, Thomas K.; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011
The fl ight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their off spring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246522
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Why Are More Boys Born During War? - Evidence from Germany at Mid Century
Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
In belligerent countries, male-to-female sex ratios at birth increased during and shortly after the two world wars. These rises still defy explanation. Several causes have been suggested (but not tested) in the literature. Many of these causes are proximate in nature, reflecting behavioral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509368
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Explaining the body mass index gaps between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002-2012: A decomposition analysis of socio-economic causes
Dang, Rui - 2015
In this paper, we decompose body mass index (BMI) differences between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany for women and men. We focus on isolating the part of BMI differences that can be explained by differences in observed socioeconomic status from the part attributable to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335981