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Who is bowling alone? : quantile treatment effects of unemployment on social participation

Kunze, Lars; Suppa, Nicolai - 2020

This article examines heterogeneity in the effect of unemployment on social participation. Whereas existing studies on this relationship essentially estimate mean effects, we use quantile regression methods to provide a broader and more complete picture. To account for the potential endogeneity...

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Public employment agency reform, matching efficiency, and German unemployment

Merkl, Christian; Sauerbier, Timo - 2023

Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the … restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment … workers reduced unemployed by 0.8 percentage points. Through the lens of an aggregate matching function, more activation is …

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The empirical content of marital surplus in matching models

Doorley, Karina; Dupuy, Arnaud; Weber, Simon - 2018

well-being and separation. We ﬁrst estimate the marital surplus using a simple matching model of the marriage market with …

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A new semiparametric approach to analysing conditional income distributions

Sohn, Alexander; Klein, Nadja; Kneib, Thomas - 2014

In this paper we explore the application of structured additive distributional regression for the analysis of conditional income distributions in Germany following the reunification. Using a bootstrapped Kolmogorov-Smirnov test we find that conditional personal income distributions can generally...

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Intergenerational transmission of unemployment : evidence for German sons

Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - 2014

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...

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Are retirees more satisfied? : anticipation and adaptation effects : a causal panel analysis of German statutory insured and civil service pensioners

Merz, Joachim - 2022

This study contributes to the subjective well-being and retirement literature by quantifying life satisfaction before (4) and after retirement (9+) periods asking: Are retirees more satisfied? Fixed-effects and causal instrumental variables (IV) estimates with individual longitudinal data of the...

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Causality in the link between income and satisfaction : IV estimation with internal instruments

Elsas, Susanne - 2021

Usually, it is expected that income increases life satisfaction. In recent years tough, research emerged that shows how subjective well-being, including satisfaction, influences objective measures, as for example income. This would then require explicit identification strategies for estimating...

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The causal effect of age at migration on youth educational attainment

Lemmermann, Dominique; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017

We investigate the causal effect of age at migration on subsequent educational attainment in the destination country. To identify the causal effect we compare the educational attainment of siblings at age 21, exploiting the fact that they typically migrate at different ages within a given...

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The causal analysis of the development of the unemployment effect on life satisfaction

Lerch, Nils - 2018

The long-term negative effects of unemployment, especially on subjective well-being, have been indicated by many studies. Therefore, unemployment and its effects on the individual life course must remain an important challenge for social policy. Many studies have focused on the cognitive...

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Potential effects of statutory minimum wage on the gender pay gap : a simulation-based study for Germany

Boll, Christina; Hüning, Hendrik; Leppin, Julian Sebastian - 2015

In a simulation-based study with data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we analyze the effects of the newly introduced statutory minimum wage of 8.50 Euro per working hour in Germany on the gender wage gap. In our first scenario where we abstain from employment effects, the pay...

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