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Mass weddings, baby boom and full employment? : Nazi Germany's 1933 marriage loan and its efficacy in theory and practice
Somcutean, Cristina - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (2022) 1, pp. 267-301
In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and births as well as male employment, which entailed a work ban for the wife and sizeable credit deductions for children. This paper illustrates that the policy was rather...
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Socialism, identity and the well-being of unemployed women
Günther, Tom; Conradi, Jakob; Hetschko, Clemens - 2024
Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature investigates these non-pecuniary costs of unemployment and stresses the importance of social identity and therefore social norms, especially for men. We add to this literature by...
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The long-term costs of government surveillance : insights from stasi spying in East Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2019 - This version: August 2019
case of the Stasi in East Germany. Exploiting regional variation in the number of spies and administrative features of the … institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We also find substantial and long-lasting economic effects of Stasi surveillance …
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Can voluntary adult education reduce unemployment? : causal evidence from East Germany after reunification
Rupieper, Li Kathrin Kaja; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2024
After the German Reunification in 1990, East Germany transitioned from a centrally planned economic system to a market …-level analysis of East Germany between 1991 and 2002. Our identification strategy is based on a decentralized expansion of courses … average. Yet, in counties neighboring West Germany, we find that courses reduced unemployment. Low labor demand may have …
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Die Reform der deutschen Arbeitslosenversicherung vor dem Hintergrund ihrer Geschichte
Schrader, Klaus; Glismann, Hans H. - 2002
Die Rolle der deutschen Arbeitslosenversicherung wird für vier Perioden seit 1871 daraufhin analysiert, ob man bei der Suche nach einem effizienten System der Arbeitslosenversicherung aus der Geschichte lernen kann. Die vier Perioden (Periode I: 1871/1914; II: 1918/32; III: 1933/39; IV: 1949/2001) sind...
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Die Reform der deutschen Arbeitslosenversicherung vor dem Hintergrund ihrer Geschichte
Glismann, Hans H.; Schrader, Klaus - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Die Rolle der deutschen Arbeitslosenversicherung wird für vier Perioden seit 1871 daraufhin analysiert, ob man bei der Suche nach einem effizienten System der Arbeitslosenversicherung aus der Geschichte lernen kann. Die vier Perioden (Periode I: 1871/1914; II: 1918/32; III: 1933/39; IV: 1949/2001) sind...
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Interwar U.K. Unemployment : The Benjamin and Kochin Hypothesis or the Legacy of 'Just' Taxes?
Nason, James M. - 2014
Benjamin and Kochin (1979, Journal of Political Economy) present regression estimates to support their hypothesis that larger unemployment benefits increased U.K. unemployment post-World War I (WWI). The Benjamin-Kochin (BK) regression is easy to replicate. When the replication is widened to...
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Industrial, Regional, and Gender Divides in British Unemployment Between the Wars
Paker, Meredith - 2023
Despite a substantial body of literature on the severe unemployment crisis in interwar Britain, our understanding of its distributional impacts remains limited. Using newly-digitized government data, this paper analyzes the gender, industrial, and regional composition of unemployment from...
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Measuring Unemployment in the Netherlands, 1900-1940 : The Operationalisation of an Elusive Concept
Rodenburg, Peter - 2010
This paper investigates i) the two measurement procedures of unemployment – one based on trade union unemployment insurance records and the other on labour exchange data – that were established by the Dutch official statistical office in order to measure the elusive concept of unemployment...
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Worker displacement and labor market success : evidence from forced labor conscription during WWII
Stapper, Carola - 2024
Dutch civilians faced a differential probability of temporary labor coercion in Nazi Germany during WWII in a Regression … likelihood of employment. Studying heterogeneous effects, I find that facing harsher conditions in Germany is associated with …
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