. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a …

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …

of parental income, and that children appear to compare their actual income situation with the aspiration level acquired …

German Socio-Economic Panel. Previous studies have focused on satisfaction differences between parents and comparable …

objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …

children appear to compare their actual economic status with that of their parents, deriving large satisfaction gains from an …This paper investigates the relationship between income satisfaction of adult children and their relative economic … income rank that is higher than that of their parents. The effect is asymmetric with regard to parents, as these seem not to …

the study of interdependent utility in general, and altruism between parents and adult children who moved away from home … for the years 2000-2004, find that the parents' self-reported happiness depends positively on the happiness of their adult … children. A one standard deviation move in the child's happiness has the same effect as a 45 percent move in household income. …

In present day Germany, one in seven children is raised in a single parent household. We investigate the effect of … single parenthood on children's educational attainment, measured by the school track at the age 14, using ordered probit … children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. …