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provider role and women staying at home and taking care of children. The employment of mothers was not a common practice, so … way. The present paper deals with the question if and how the employment careers of West German women with at least one … 1956-65) is carried out. It is of interest whether and how the employment patterns have changed. Another question is what …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601048
This paper proposes a dynamic life cycle model of health risks, employment, early retirement, and wealth accumulation … health process, the interaction between health and employment risks, and an explicit modeling of the German public insurance …
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OLS specifications, which have been the main approaches in previous studies. Women's wages and employment probabilities do … employment prospects increase with weight, albeit with diminishing returns. However, underweight men in blue-collar jobs earn …
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address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment …
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This paper extends the idea of using ex-ante risk measures in a model of precautionary savings by explicitly simulating future net-income risks. The uncertainty measure takes into account the interdependency of labour market status and health. The model is estimated for prime age males using the...
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Objective: At work, people are confronted with clear behavioral expectations. In line with the Social Investment Principle, the beginning and ending of working life might thus promote changes in personality traits that are relevant at work (e.g., Conscientiousness). Method: Based on the data...
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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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Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper investigates how pro-active time-use (e.g., in sports/arts/socializing) relates to subjective well-being of the unemployed and their probability of finding a new job. Allowing for a variety of socio-demographic and...
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After an economically tough start into the new millennium, Germany experienced an unprecedented employment boom after … employment boom. Our results suggest that, while the latter did have an equalising impact, it was partially offset by the … persistently reverse all the employment gains that occurred during the boom, this would only have a moderately disequalising effect …
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provider role and women staying at home and taking care of children. The employment of mothers was not a common practice, so … way. The present paper deals with the question if and how the employment careers of West German women with at least one … 1956-65) is carried out. It is of interest whether and how the employment patterns have changed. Another question is what …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367489