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Given shortages in public child care in Germany, this paper asks whether social support with child care and domestic … Germany where public child care is more easily accessible and continuous female employment is a prevalent social norm …
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study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and …
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immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with …
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While general ethnic disadvantages are well documented, much less is known about coinciding disadvantages of ethnic origin and gender. Based on theoretical arguments of human capital theory, sociocultural approaches, labour market segmentation theory, and discrimination mechanisms, we...
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With the arrival of over one million asylum seekers in Germany in 2015, policy discussions opened whether refugees …
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This paper investigates the effects of the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany on the wages and … employment of migrants. Migrants are an overrepresented group in the low-wage sector and can be expected to particularly benefit … wage has weakened the position of migrants in the low-wage sector compared to their native counterparts. We observe an …
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This paper considers the e effcts of a two-period interaction on the decision of a principal to delegate authority to a potentially biased but better informed agent. Compared to the (repeated) one-period case, the agent's first period actions may also signal his type which in turn impacts wages...
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Temporary employees rank lower than permanent employees on various measures of mental and physical health, including well-being. In parallel, much research has shown that the relationship between age and well-being traces an approximate U-shape, with a nadir in midlife. Temporary employment may...
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relationship between the incidence of low occupational prestige and the probability of internal migration in Germany and thus …
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