Losing a job has always been understood as one of the most important causes of downward social mobility in modern societies. And it's only gotten worse in recent years, as the weakening position of workers has made returning to the labor market even tougher. The Impact of Losing Your Job builds...

Losing a job has always been understood as one of the most important causes of downward social mobility in modern societies. And it's only gotten worse in recent years, as the weakening position of workers has made re-entering the labour market even tougher. "The Impact of Losing Your Job"...

Obwohl das staatliche Abgaben-, Steuer- und Transfersystem nicht durchgehend bedarfsorientiert ausgestaltet ist, führt es zu einer weitgehend konsistenten Umverteilung von oben nach unten. Dies gilt auch dann, wenn man das Einkommen personenbezogen betrachtet und dabei den Haushaltskontext...

The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper, we use data of the 2004 German Socio-Economic Panel and Bayesian analysis in order to analyze to what degree violations of the strong validity assumption affect the...