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Labor market effects of early retirement reforms

Riphahn, Regina T.; Schrader, Rebecca - 2020

We study causal effects of two early retirement reforms. Reform 1 (NRA) increased normal retirement age stepwise from 60 to 63. Simultaneously, it became possible to use early retirement with benefit discounts. Reform 2 (ERA) increased the age of early retirement stepwise from 60 to 63. We...

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Financial incentives and the timing of retirement : evidence from Switzerland

Broadway, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2006

We use reforms in the Swiss public retirement system to identify the responsiveness of retirement timing to financial incentives. A permanent reduction of retirement benefits by 3.4 percent induces more than 70 percent of females to postpone their retirement. The responsiveness of male workers,...

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New evidence on financial incentives and the timing of retirement

Broadway, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009

We investigate the responsiveness of individual retirement decisions to changes in financial incentives. The causal effect is identified based on the natural experiment generated by an institutional reform. The results of a binary retirement model are robust to alternative model specifications,...

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Fertility effects of child benefits

Riphahn, Regina T.; Wiynck, Frederik - 2016

We exploit the 1996 reform of the German child benefit program to identify the causal effect of heterogeneous child benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied substantially by household income and sibship size. We use these...

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The causal effect of age at migration on youth educational attainment

Lemmermann, Dominique; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2016

We investigate the causal effect of age at migration on subsequent educational attainment in the destination country. To identify the causal effect we compare the educational attainment of siblings at age 21, exploiting the fact that they typically migrate at different ages within a given...

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Paternal unemployment during childhood : causal effects on youth worklessness and educational attainment

Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; Schwientek, Caroline - 2014

Using long-running data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984-2012) we investigate the impact of paternal unemployment on child labor market and education outcomes. We first describe correlation patterns and then use sibling fixed effects and the Gottschalk (1996) method to identify the...

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What drives the reversal of the gender education gap? : evidence from Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Schwientek, Caroline - 2015

We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on …

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Naturalization and labor market performance of immigrants in Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Saif, Salwan - 2018

study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and …

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Wage mobility in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2011

markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s … ; earnings mobility ; income mobility ; Germany ; East Germany ; inequality ; transition matrix ; Shorrocks index …

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Lohnentwicklung im Lebenszyklus : eine Analyse von Ausmaß, Begründung und Heterogenität von Lohnsteigerungen

Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2011

This paper summarizes the findings of studies which investigate the determinants of wages in Germany, using data of the … sector, in East and West Germany, for men and women, as well as in large versus small firms. Among the most interesting …

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