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Getting poor to work: Three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015
and full-time work, respectively. We estimate labor supply reactions and welfare effects using a microsimulation model … that provides improved incentives to work full-time has negligible effects on overall labor supply. With equal welfare … weights, aggregate welfare gains are realizable under all three reforms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314549
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Long-run consequences of informal elderly care and implications of public long-term care insurance
Korfhage, Thorben - 2019
In this paper, I estimate a dynamic structural model of labor supply, retirement, and informal care supply, incorporating labor market frictions and the German tax and benefit system. I find that informal elderly care has adverse and persistent effects on labor market outcomes and therefore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053262
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Intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt: Evidence from Germany
Feichtmayer, Jennifer; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2023
We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation … between welfare receipt experienced in the parental household and subsequent own welfare receipt of young adults. In a second … step, we investigate whether the observed correlations reflect causal effects of past welfare experience. We use family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468200
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The effects of after-school programs on maternal employment
Dehos, Fabian; Paul, Marie - 2017
This paper evaluates the impact of a massive expansion of after-school programs (ASPs) on the labor market participation of mothers with primary school children in the West German context of relatively low full-time employment rates. Using an instrumental variables approach we exploit regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011665806
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The impact of short- and long-term participation tax rates on labor supply
Bartels, Charlotte; Pestel, Nico - 2015
Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301383
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Theorie und Empirie über den Wirkungszusammenhang zwischen sozialer Herkunft, kulturellem und sozialem Kapital, Bildung und Einkommen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Krenz, Astrid - 2008
Die vorliegende Arbeit leistet einen Beitrag zur aktuellen Bildungsdebatte und knüpft an die Theorie des Soziologen Pierre Bourdieus an: untersucht wird, ob und inwiefern die soziale Herkunft eines jungen Menschen in Deutschland sein Einkommen determiniert. Neben der Darlegung theoretischer und...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600773
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Determinants and Consequences of Health Behaviour: New Evidence from German Micro Data
Schneider, Brit S.; Schneider, Udo - 2009
The economic costs of chronic health conditions and severe illnesses like diabetes, coronary heart disease or cancer are immense. Several clinical trials give information about the importance of individual behaviour for the prevalence of these illnesses. Changes in health relevant behaviour may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600896
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Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Assessing the Impact of Locus of Control on Education Decisions and Wages
Piatek, Rémi; Pinger, Pia - 2010
This paper establishes that individuals with an internal locus of control, i.e., who believe that reinforcement in life comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive effect only translates into labor income via the channel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600980
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A practical guide for the computation of domain-level estimates with the Socio-Economic Panel (and other household surveys)
Hainbach, Natascha; Halbmeier, Christoph; Schmid, Timo; … - 2019
There is a huge interest in deriving and comparing socio-economic indicators across societal groups and domains. The indicators are usually derived from population surveys like the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) by direct estimation. Small sample sizes in the domains can limit the precision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140453
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Theorie und Empirie über den Wirkungszusammenhang zwischen sozialer Herkunft, kulturellem und sozialem Kapital, Bildung und Einkommen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Krenz, Astrid - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
Die vorliegende Arbeit leistet einen Beitrag zur aktuellen Bildungsdebatte und knüpft an die Theorie des Soziologen Pierre Bourdieus an: untersucht wird, ob und inwiefern die soziale Herkunft eines jungen Menschen in Deutschland sein Einkommen determiniert. Neben der Darlegung theoretischer und...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018744