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The East German wage structure after transition

Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2008

We extend the literature on transition economies' wage structures by investigating the returns to tenure and experience. This study applies recent panel data and estimation approaches that control for hitherto neglected biases. We compare the life cycle structure in East and West German wages...

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The causal effect of age at migration on youth educational attainment

Lemmermann, Dominique; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017

typically migrate at different ages within a given family. We consider several education outcomes conditional on family fixed …

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Apprenticeship, vocational training and early labor market outcomes : in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Zibrowius, Michael - 2015

We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of...

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Intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in Germany : the last five decades

Heineck, Guido; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2007

Over the last decades the German education system underwent numerous reforms in order to improve "equality of … opportunity", i.e. to guarantee all pupils equal access to higher education. At the same time internationally comparative evidence … investigates the development in intergenerational education mobility in Germany for the birth cohorts 1929 through 1978 and tests …

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Fertility effects of child benefits

Riphahn, Regina T.; Wiynck, Frederik - 2017

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 by household income and the number of children. We use these...

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State dependence in welfare receipt : transitions before and after a reform

Riphahn, Regina T.; Wunder, Christoph - 2015

We study state dependence in welfare receipt and investigate whether welfare transitions changed after a welfare reform. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial logit estimators and find that state dependence in welfare receipt is not a central feature of...

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Naturalization and labor market performance of immigrants in Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Saif, Salwan - 2018

Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...

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Intergenerational transmission of unemployment : evidence for German sons

Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - 2014

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...

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Intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt : evidence from Germany

Feichtmayer, Jennifer; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2023

We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation between welfare receipt experienced in the parental household and subsequent own welfare receipt of young adults. In a second step, we investigate whether the observed...

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