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The demographic dilemma : fertility, female labor force participation and future growth in Germany 2007-2060

Dudel, Christian - 2009

connection between fertility and labor force participation on the future demographic and economic development in Germany. For …

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Asymptotic income distribution in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) : income inequality and Darwinian fitness

Montano, Diego - 2011

In this paper, the relation between income inequality and population growth is analized from a Darwinian perspective. A Markov chain population growth model is presented and estimated using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We estimate both population growth rates and...

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(Mis-)predicted subjective well-being following life events

Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2015

data, we compare people's forecast of their life satisfaction in five years' time to their actual realisations later on …

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A critique and reframing of personality in labour market theory : locus of control and labour market outcomes

Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2011

This article critically examines the theoretical arguments that underlie the literature linking personality traits to economic outcomes and provides empirical evidence indicating that labour market outcomes influence personality outcomes. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we...

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Maternity leave in the context of couples : the impact of both partners' characteristics and employment experiences on mothers' re-entry into the labour market

Hoherz, Stefanie - 2014

on the first twenty-two years of post-reunification Germany, using proportional hazards models. Results show that the re …

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Labor market integration of German immigrants and their children : does personality matter?

Thum, Anna-Elisabeth - 2014

Educational attainment, length of stay, differences in national background and language skills play an acknowledged important role for the integration of immigrants. But integration is also a social process, which suggests that psychological factors are relevant. This paper explores whether and...

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Time-varying individual risk attitudes over the Great Recession : a comparison of Germany and Ukraine

Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - 2015

We use the panel data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to investigate whether risk attitudes have primary (exogenous) determinants that are valid in different stages of economic development and in a different structural context,...

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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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Naturalization and labor market performance of immigrants in Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Saif, Salwan - 2018

study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and …

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Educational expansion and its heterogeneous returns for wage workers

Gebel, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008 - Revised version

This paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades. During this period, graduates from the period of educational expansion entered the labour market and an upgrading of the skill structure took place. In order to tackle the issues...

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