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We exploit the 1996 reform of the German child benefit program to identify the causal effect of heterogeneous child benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied by household income and the number of children. We use these...
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We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation …
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employed censored regression models. Drawing on a survey of automobile use from Germany, we argue that while it is important to …
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The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German … market, that is, on the unequal distribution of women and men across different occupations and on the effects of this … Germany to use time-constant unobserved heterogeneity and gender-specific promotion probabilities to estimate wages and wage …
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(SOEP) for the years 2001-2006. Our findings show: first, the fact that foreign women remit less money than foreign men can … reunification in the destination country and decreases remittances. Third, the structure of the existing social network in Germany …
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automobile use from Germany, we argue that while it is important to test for the significance of interaction effects, their size …
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panel data from Germany, we fail to reject the hypothesis that the fuel price elasticities for petrol and diesel are equal …
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improvements. Using panel estimation methods and household travel diary data collected in Germany between 1997 and 2009, this study …
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Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to … labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply … a higher income than their husbands, we find for Germany that women only barely reduce their weekly hours of non …
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The present paper quantifies the economic consequences of eliminating the system of income splitting in Germany. We …
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