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September 11th and the earnings of muslims in Germany : the moderating role of education and firm size

Cornelißen, Thomas; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2010

While available evidence suggests that the events of September 11th negatively influenced the relative earnings of employees with Arab background in the US, it is not clear that they had similar effects in other countries. Our study for Germany provides evidence that the events also affected the...

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Local day-care quality and maternal employment : evidence from East and West Germany

Schober, Pia S.; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2014

By investigating how locally available early childhood education and care quality relates to maternal employment …

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Does it pay to be a woman? : labour demand effects of maternity-related job protection and replacement incomes

Scheubel, Beatrice - 2014

In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing age because she might get pregnant. However, such labour demand e ects of job protection measures related to maternity leave are often rather anecdotal. To provide analytical...

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Economic gains from publicly provided education in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2007

The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided education and to analyse their … education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional perspective the overall result is the expected levelling effect. When … non-compulsory education, thus negating any social equalisation effects achieved within the compulsory education framework. …

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The effect of schooling on parental integration : evidence from Germany

Sommerfeld, Ann-Marie - 2023

Exploiting the age-at-enrollment policies in 16 German states as exogenous source of variation, I examine whether the schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents' integration. My analysis links administrative records on primary school enrollment cutoff dates with micro...

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More education does make you happier - unless you are unemployed

Bertermann, Alexander; Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; … - 2023

This paper investigates the causal eﬀect of education on life satisfaction, exploring eﬀect heterogeneity along … longitudinal information, we also address the endogeneity of employment status. We ﬁnd a positive eﬀect of education on life … function as a unifying explanation for the asymmetric eﬀect of education on life satisfaction. …

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How a universal music education program affects time use, behavior, and school attitude

Hille, Adrian - 2015

music education programs are becoming increasingly popular among policy makers in Germany and other developed countries …, the effects of universal music education on such outcomes are not yet sufficiently studied. This paper analyses the Jedem …

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Individual poverty paths and the stability of control-perception

Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2015

This paper investigates whether individual control-perception affects the probability of becoming poor, and vice versa, whether poverty experiences can be detrimental to these traits later on. The former relation is intuitive as control related traits underly many idiosyncratic determinants of...

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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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Effectiveness of social capital in the job search process

Koßmann, Ralf Werner - 2016

The empirical literature has provided ample yet contradictory evidence on the effectiveness of social ties in the job search process in terms of post-hire outcomes, such as wages or job satisfaction. Whereas early research, mainly focussing on the U.S. labour market, found positive correlations...

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