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Maternity leave and mothers' long-term sickness absence : evidence from Germany
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Hank, Karsten - 2014
-run delay in return to work, which might rationalize a negative causal health effect. Breaking down the results by mothers’ pre …-birth health status suggests that the higher incidence of long-term sickness absence among the treated may be explained by the fact … that the reform has facilitated re-entry of a negative health selection into the labor market. …
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The (Option-) Value of Overstaying
Méango, Romuald; Poinas, François - 2023
The paper is structured around three main contributions. First, it takes advantage of a unique survey on Afghan asylum seekers in Germany to provide novel descriptive insights into asylum seekers' beliefs about their outcomes and the associated intention to overstay. Second, it estimates asylum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377510
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Migrants at School : Educational Inequality and Social Interaction in the UK and Germany
Entorf, Horst - 2009
We test potential social costs of educational inequality by analysing the influence of spatial and social segregation on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate whether good neighbourhoods with a relatively high stock of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159513
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Migrants at school : educational inequality and social interaction in the UK and Germany
Entorf, Horst; Tatsi, Eirini - 2009
We test potential social costs of educational inequality by analysing the influence of spatial and social segregation on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate whether good neighbourhoods with a relatively high stock of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846006
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The (option-) value of overstaying
Méango, Romuald; Poinas, François - 2023
The paper is structured around three main contributions. First, it takes advantage of a unique survey on Afghan asylum seekers in Germany to provide novel descriptive insights into asylum seekers' beliefs about their outcomes and the associated intention to overstay. Second, it estimates asylum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014309566
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Can financial incentives reduce the baby gap? : evidence from a reform in maternity leave benefits
Raute, Anna - 2017
To assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby gap between high educated (high earning) and low educated (low earning) women, I exploit a major maternity leave benefit reform in Germany that considerably increases the financial incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721639
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Types of absence from work and wages of young workers with apprenticeship training
Kunze, Astrid - In: Journal for labour market research 51 (2017) 5, pp. 1-14
This paper explores the short-and long-term effects on wages of absence from work for young highly attached skilled male and female workers in West Germany. The analysis distinguishes different types of career absence: unemployment, maternity leave for female workers, compulsory service for male...
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Kindergeld : im Auftrag der Geschäftsstelle Gesamtevaluation der ehe- und familienbezogenen Leistungen in Deutschland
Rainer, Helmut; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Danzer, Natalia; … - 2013 - März 2012
Im Rahmen der vom Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ) und vom Bundesministerium der Finanzen (BMF) in Auftrag gegebenen Gesamtevaluation von zentralen ehe- und familienbezogenen Leistungen wurden in der vorliegenden Studie die Auswirkungen der familienpolitischen...
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Can financial incentives reduce the baby gap? : evidence from a reform in maternity leave benefits
Raute, Anna - 2018
In this paper, I assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby gap between highly educated (high-earning) and less-educated (low-earning) women. I exploit a major maternity leave benefit reform in Germany that considerably increased the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932529
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Economic assimiliation of immigrants arriving from highly developed countries : the case of German immigrants in Sweden and the US
Haberfeld, Yitchak; Birgier, Debora Pricila; Lundh, Christer - 2017
Migration across well-developed countries has been overlooked in the immigration literature. The present study is designed to evaluate the interplay between the effects of host countries' characteristics and self-selection patterns of immigrants from a highly developed country on their economic...
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