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 …

This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss … if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience …? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may operate through a sociological channel: if many people in the …

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 …

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 …

The 1990s and 2000s were a gloomy period for Germany's working class, hit by mass unemployment, welfare retrenchment … gap did not follow a clear time trend, but remained basically constant. In Germany, differences in unemployment risks and … and wage stagnation. We examine whether the growing economic disparity between the top and the bottom of Germany's class …

remain in, or move into, feminizing occupations? We analzye this question over the 1990s and 2000s in Britain, Germany and … Switzerland and three percent in Germany. The impact of occupational feminization on wages is not linear, but sets apart …