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Does voluntary risk taking affect solidarity? : experimental evidence from Kenya

Strobl, Renate; Wunsch, Conny - 2017

dwellers of Nairobi our design measures subjects' willingness to share income with a worse-o ff partner both in a setting where …

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Approval of equal rights and gender : differences in well-being

Lalive, Rafael (contributor); Stutzer, Alois (contributor) - 2007

Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper explores whether norms regarding the … appropriate pay for women compared to men may explain these findings. In order to capture the spatial variation in such norms, we … for the norm that “women and men shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value”. We find that the gender wage …

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Do firms benefit from active labour market policies?

Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny; Scioch, Patrycja - 2013

This paper investigates the link between variation in the supply of workers who participate in specific types of active labour market policies (ALMPs) and firm performance using a new exceptionially informative German employer-employee data base. For identification we exploit that German local...

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Vocational training for female job returners : effects on employment, earnings and job quality

Doerr, Annabelle - 2022

This paper studies how training vouchers increase the employment prospects of women with interrupted employment …

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Are asylum seekers more likely to work with more inclusive labor market access regulations?

Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois; Uhlig, Roman - 2018

In the face of recent refugee migration, early integration of asylum seekers into the labor market has been proposed as an important mechanism for easing their economic and social lot in the short as well as in the long term. However, little is known about the policies that foster or hamper...

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How the provision of childcare affects attitudes towards maternal employment

Roth, Anja - 2019

Do childcare institutions affect gender norms of individuals? I examine the introduction of childcare services and their impact on voters' support of policies promoting maternal employment. I address the inherent endogeneity between institutions and attitudes by exploiting regional variation in...

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