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Does It Pay to Be a Woman?: Labour Demand Effects of Maternity-Related Job Protection and Replacement Incomes

Scheubel, Beatrice - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing age because she might get pregnant. However, such labour demand e ects of job protection measures related to maternity leave are often rather anecdotal. To provide analytical...

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The Effect of Education on Fertility: Evidence from a Compulsory Schooling Reform

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Maeder, Miriam - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit … exogenous variation from a German compulsory schooling reform to deal with the endogeneity of education. By using data from two … countries, we find that increased education causally reduces completed fertility. This negative effect operates through a …

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Kick It Like Özil?: Decomposing the Native-Migrant Education Gap

Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to …

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The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Germany

Cornelißen, Thomas; Pfeifer, Christian - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized...

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Self-Employment and Geographical Mobility in Germany

Reuschke, Darja - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the … geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place … embeddedness of self-employment. It examines whether self-employed entrepreneurs are "rooted" in place and also whether those who …

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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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Assimilation and Cohort Effects for German Immigrants

Gundel, Sebastian; Peters, Heiko - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

Demographic change and the rising demand for highly qualified labor in Germany attracts notice to the analysis of immigration. In addition, the pattern of immigration changed markedly during the past decades. Therefore we use the latest data of the German Socioeconomic Panel up to the year 2006...

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Development of Wage Inequality for Natives and Immigrants in Germany: Evidence from Quantile Regression and Decomposition

Peters, Heiko - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008

To study the development of wage inequality is important for the economic performance as well as for the development of employment. First, I estimate the remuneration to personal characteristics for Germans and immigrants across the wage distribution using quantile regression. My database is the...

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Who Is Overeducated and Why?: Probit and Dynamic Mixed Multinomial Logit Analyses of Vertical Mismatch in East and West Germany

Boll, Christina; Leppin, Julian Sebastian; Schömann, Klaus - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

Overeducation is an often overlooked facet of untapped human resources. But who is overeducated and why? Relying on SOEP data 1984‐2011, we use probit models for estimating the likelihood of entering overeducation and dynamic mixed multinomial logit models with random effects addressing state...

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Obesity and Developmental Functioning Among Children Aged 2-4 Years

Cawley, John; Spieß, C. Katharina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008

In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the developmental functioning of children at younger ages...

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