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Identifying age penalty in women's wages : new method and evidence from Germany 1984-2014
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas; Staveren, Irene van - 2017
Given theoretical premises, gender wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary over age. We extend DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) semi-parametric technique to disentangle year, cohort and age effects in adjusted gender wage gaps. We rely on a long panel of data from...
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Working-time mismatch and mental health
Otterbach, Steffen; Wooden, Mark; Fok, Yin King - 2016
Nationally representative panel survey data for Germany and Australia are used to investigate the impact of working …
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How important is precautionary labor supply?
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Schmitz, Sebastian - 2016 - This version: June 3, 2016
We quantify the importance of precautionary labor supply using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for 2001-2012. We estimate dynamic labor supply equations augmented with a measure of wage risk. Our results show that married men choose about 2.5% of their hours of work or one week...
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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 surprisingly positive causal effect on the "Big 5" personality traits of children aged 17 to 25. In particular, our results from longitudinal value-added models for personality suggest...
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Do immigrants suffer more from job loss? : unemployment and subjective well-being in Germany
Leopold, Liliya; Leopold, Thomas; Lechner, Clemens M. - 2016
This study asked whether immigrants suffer more from job loss than German natives do. Compositional, psychosocial, and normative differences between these groups suggest that various factors intensifying the negative impact of unemployment on subjective well-being are either more prevalent, more...
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The role of body weight for health, earnings, and life satisfaction
Hübler, Olaf - 2019
public sector the sign of the coefficient changes. The results for eastern Germany are different with respect to satisfaction …. Overweight women are less satisfied than others while this is not confirmed for underweight men from eastern Germany. When …
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Do parental leaves make the motherhood wage penalty worse? : assessing two decades of German reforms
Mari, Gabriele; Cutuli, Giorgio - 2019
such wage responses. We assess if and how two decades of reforms of parental leave schemes in Germany have shaped changes …
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Gender identity and wives' labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016
Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019
formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … couples in West (but not East) Germany diminished the wife's labor market outcomes in order to avoid situations where she … would earn more than him. However, the significance of the male breadwinner prescription seems to decline in West Germany …
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The myth of equal opportunity in Germany?
Consiglio, Valentina S.; Sologon, Denisa M. - 2019
Providing equal opportunities to all members of society independent of an individual's socioeconomic background is a major objective of German policy makers. However, evidence on the access to education suggests that opportunities of children with a non-academic family background are still...
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The immigrant-native wage gap in Germany revisited
Ingwersen, Kai; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2019 - This version: 17 June 2019
This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile regression models by employing a regression of the...
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