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The impact of social support networks on maternal employment : a comparison of West German, East German and migrant mothers of pre-school children

Wagner, Mareike - 2012

Given shortages in public child care in Germany, this paper asks whether social support with child care and domestic work by spouses, kin and friends can facilitate mothers' return to full-time or part-time positions within the first six years after birth. Using SOEP data from 1993-2009 and...

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Migrant's pursuit of happiness : the impact of adaption, social comparison and relative deprivation ; evidence from a "natural" experiment

Melzer, Silvia Maja; Muffels, Ruud J. A. - 2012

migration are affected by the way migrants adapt to their new economic conditions, by with whom migrants compare themselves … migration on SWB, although it is strongly suppressed by dissatisfaction resulting from the comparison of migrants' income with …

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Entrepreneurship and creative professions : a micro-level analysis

Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina - 2013

It has widely been recognized that creativity plays an immense role not only for arts, sciences, and technology, but also for entrepreneurship, innovation, and thus, economic growth. We analyze the level and the determinants of self-employment in creative professions at the level of individuals....

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Do women in highly qualified positions face higher work-to-family conflicts in Germany than men?

Busch-Heizmann, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2017

Changing employment conditions lead to new chances, but also new risks for employees. In the literature, increasing permeability between occupational and private life is discussed as one special outcome of this development that employees must face, especially those in highly qualified positions....

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Worker personality : another skill bias beyond education in the digital age

Bode, Eckhardt; Brunow, Stephan; Ott, Ingrid; Sorgner, Alina - 2016

We present empirical evidence suggesting that technological progress in the digital age will be biased not only with respect to skills acquired through education but also with respect to noncognitive skills (personality). We measure the direction of technological change by estimated future...

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Minimum wage in Germany : countering the wage and employment gap between migrants and natives?

Ingwersen, Kai; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2022 - This version: December 30, 2022

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 … among migrants. The introduction of the minimum wage caused a temporary convergence in hourly wages between migrants and …

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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

We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family...

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Rising wage inequality in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2007

Based on samples from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) 1984 to 2004, this paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany. Between 1984 and 1994 wages for prime age dependent male workers increased on average by 23 percent and the wage distribution in West Germany...

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20 Years of German unification : evidence on income convergence and heterogeneity

Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - 2009

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...

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Apprenticeship, vocational training and early labor market outcomes : in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Zibrowius, Michael - 2015

We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of...

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