Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this … additional work-sharing in Germany. Furthermore, the match between actual and desired hours of Germans would improve if Germans … that hours restrictions shrank over time, which means, Germany seems to be moving towards a more flexible labor market. …

disciplines. The sec-ond part summarises parts of the epidemiological literature on health effects and the eco-nomic literature on …

dependence, we evaluate the 2007 reform of parental leave benefits in Germany, which replaced a flat, means-tested benefit by a …

the case of Germany, a country with a long maternity leave coverage. Effect heterogeneity is assessed by estimating ex …

compound procedure of estimation and calibration based on the 1998 wave of the German socioeconomic panel. We estimate a … estimation of collective models with taxation. …

This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children’s health from birth until the age of three … years in Germany. We use representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), combined with five air pollution …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child’s health during the first three years of life …

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable … estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain …

This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past … based on a structural model of household labor supply. For West Germany, a positive effect of marital sorting on inequality … participation. In East Germany, the impact of marital sorting on inequality is highly disequalizing irrespective of adjusting for …