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Intergenerational earnings mobility and preferences for redistribution

Siedler, Thomas; Sonnenberg, Bettina - 2012

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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Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017

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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Intergenerational correlations of extreme right-wing party preferences and attitudes toward immigration

Avdeenko, Alexandra; Siedler, Thomas - 2016

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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Retirement, intergenerational time transfers, and fertility

Eibich, Peter; Siedler, Thomas - 2020

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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The introduction of a short-term earnings-related parental leave benefit system and differential employment effects

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2010

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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Do sporty people have access to higher job quality?

Cabane, Charlotte - 2010

Very little attention has been paid to the impact of sports participation on the labour market in the European academic literature while it has received significant recognition in the United States. We consider sports practice as a way to improve or signal non-cognitive skills endowment. And it...

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University tuition fees and high school students' educational intentions

Bahrs, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - 2018

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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Does education affect attitudes towards immigration? : evidence from Germany

Margaryan, Shushanik; Paul, Annemarie; Siedler, Thomas - 2018

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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Mozart or Pelé? : the effects of teenagers' participation in music and sports

Cabane, Charlotte; Hille, Adrian; Lechner, Michael - 2015

to doing sports, particularly so for girls and children from more highly educated families, doing sports improves …

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Political socialization in flux? : linking family non-intactness during childhood to adult civic engagement

Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2013

-intact family and children's civic, social and political engagement as adults. We argue that this finding is consistent with …

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