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Job Insecurity, Employability, and Health: An Analysis for Germany across Generations

Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

In this paper, we use 12 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the relationship between job insecurity, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life satisfaction and health. They also, however,...

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The Feminization of Occupations and Change in Wages: A Panel Analysis of Britain, Germany and Switzerland

Murphy, Emily; Oesch, Daniel - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015

In the last four decades, women have made major inroads into occupations previously dominated by men. This paper examines whether occupational feminization is accompanied by a decline in wages: Do workers suffer a wage penalty if they remain in, or move into, feminizing occupations? We analzye...

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Does a Better Job Match Make Women Happier?: Work Orientations, Work-Care Choices and Subjective Well-Being in Germany

Muffels, Ruud; Kemperman, Bauke - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

The study examines the effects of work orientations and work-leisure choices alongside the effect of genes or personality traits on subjective well-being (SWB). The former effects are assumed to be mediated by the match between women's preferred and actual number of working hours indicating...

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Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples: Are There Spillovers?

Wunder, Christoph; Heineck, Guido - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

We analyze how well-being is related to working time preferences and hours mismatch. Selfreported measures of life satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results indicate that well-being is generally lower among workers with working time mismatch. Particularly...

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Has Atypical Work Become Typical in Germany?: Country Case Studies on Labour Market Segmentation

Eichhorst, Werner; Tobsch, Verena - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

This paper gives an overview of the transformation of the German labor market since the mid-1990s with a special focuson the changing patterns of labor market segmentation or "dualization" of employment in Germany. While labor market duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labor market...

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Offshoring and Labor Income Risk: An Empirical Investigation

Hogrefe, Jan; Yao, Yao - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

This paper analyses how increased offshoring impacts on labor income risk. It is therefore distinct from a large number of studies explaining the level effects of globalization on the labor market in that it takes a look at effects on the variability of incomes. It provides an assessment that...

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The Aggregate Effects of the Hartz Reforms in Germany

Hertweck, Matthias S.; Sigrist, Oliver - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

(1983-2009). We show that, until the early 2000s, close to 60% of changes in the unemployment rate are due to changes in the …

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To Own or Not to Own?: Household Portfolios, Demographics and Institutions in a Cross-National Perspective

Sierminska, Eva; Doorley, Karina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that younger households' participation decisions in assets are more responsive...

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Law and Social Capital: Evidence from the Code Napoleon in Germany

Buggle, Johannes C. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …

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The Added Worker Effect Differentiated by Gender and Partnership Status: Evidence from Involuntary Job Loss

Triebe, Doreen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015

response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies … focus on married women's response to those shocks, I explicitly analyze the spillover effects of unemployment on both women … and employer terminations as exogenous forms of unemployment. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …

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