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This paper analyzes the extent to which intergenerational upward and downward mobility in earnings are related to individuals' preferences for redistribution. A novel survey question from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study - whether the taxes paid by unskilled workers are too high, adequate...
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We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that had paid benefits for up to two years was replaced by an earnings related transfer which paid...
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This study analyzes the importance of parental socialization on the development of children’s far right … the strongest and most important predictor for young people’s right-wing extremism are parents’ right-wing extremist …
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Retired parents might invest time into their adult children by providing childcare. Such intergenerational time … children's fertility. We use representative panel data from Germany to link observations on parents and adult children. We … parent's early retirement significantly increases the probability of childbirth for adult children. However, parental …
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distance between adult children and elderly parents. Given current population trends, understanding how different … estimate the causal effect of sibship size on the geographic distance between older parents and adult children by using a large … responsibility of care for older parents to be shared among more siblings, possibly decreasing individual involvement and relaxing …
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adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care … adult children provide to their elderly parents. Lastly, we look for cross-country differences in family location and … insights into how family-related and institutional factors shape patterns of time transfers from adult children to elderly …
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German family policy underwent a reform in 2007, when the new instrument of "Elterngeld" replaced the previous "Erziehungsgeld". The transfer programs differ in various dimensions. We study the effects on the labor supply of young mothers, by comparing behavior before and after the reform. We...
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high school students and, if so, whether the effect on individuals from low-income households is particularly strong. We … decrease of around eight percentage points (ten percent). Individuals from low-income households mainly drive the results. This …
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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting the staggered implementation of a compulsory schooling reform in West Germany, this article finds that an additional year of schooling lowers the probability of being very concerned about immigration to Germany by around six...
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-intact family and children's civic, social and political engagement as adults. We argue that this finding is consistent with …
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