Using a unique dataset for Germany that links individual longitudinal data from the SOEP to regional data from the … federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual … neighborhood unemployment on the individual employment probability …

capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that … signifiantly lower returns than human capital obtained in Germany. We further find evidence for heterogeneity in the returns to …

contrast, scars of past unemployment show up in a higher mismatch risk. Moreover, an employer change does not serve as a …

prominent events – is also to discover for life satisfaction before and after retirement in Germany.Main result: Individual and …

multinomial logit based on time use diary data of the German Time Use Study 2001/02. One striking result for Germany: the … deutschen Zeitbudgeterhebung 2001/02. Ein herausragendes Ergebnis für Deutschland: Substitution zwischen Zeit und Einkommen ist …

of income or parents' unemployment determine children's school achievements. Second, we analyze the effect of job …

newly introduced statutory minimum wage of 8.50 Euro per working hour in Germany on the gender wage gap. In our first …

Germany's occupational and sectoral change towards a knowledge-based economy calls for high returns to education …