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Public employment agency reform, matching efficiency, and German unemployment

Merkl, Christian; Sauerbier, Timo - 2023

Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment. Based on two microeconomic datasets, we show that the...

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Life satisfaction, pro-activity, and employment

Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Yilmaz, Levent - 2021

Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper investigates how pro-active time-use (e.g., in sports/arts/socializing) relates to subjective well-being of the unemployed and their probability of finding a new job. Allowing for a variety of socio-demographic and...

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He's a chip off the old block: The persistency of occupational choices among generations

Knoll, Bodo; Riedel, Nadine; Schlenker, Eva - 2013

The purpose of this paper is to assess if parents exert an influence on the occupation choices of their children. Using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistency of occupational decisions across fathers and children using nested and conditional logit models. To...

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The intergenerational transmission of occupational preferences, segregation, and wage inequality: Empirical evidence from three countries

Eberharter, Veronika V. - 2012

Based on longitudinal data (CNEF 1980-2010) the paper analyzes the structuring effects of individual and family background characteristics on occupational preferences, and the influence of occupational segregation on gender wage differentials in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States....

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Occupational Preferences, Segregation, and Wage Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Three Countries

Eberharter, Veronika V. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

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He's a Chip Off the Old Block: The Persistency of Occupational Choices among Generations

Knoll, Bodo; Riedel, Nadine; Schlenker, Eva - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

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How Important Is the Family? Evidence from Sibling Correlations in Permanent Earnings in the US, Germany and Denmark

Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2011

. This holds true for brothers and sisters. In Denmark 20 percent of the inequality in permanent earnings can be attributed …

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Like father, like son? A comparison of absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility in Germany and the US

Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2018

Are children better off than their parents? This highly debated question in politics and economics is investigated by analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality panel data is used for this purpose; the SOEP for...

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How Important Is the Family?: Evidence from Sibling Correlations in Permanent Earnings in the US, Germany and Denmark

Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

. This holds true for brothers and sisters. In Denmark 20 percent of the inequality in permanent earnings can be attributed …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868114

Inequality of opportunity in wealth: Levels, trends, and drivers

Graeber, Daniel; Hilbert, Viola; König, Johannes - 2023

While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is … the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Ex-ante IOp is defined as the contribution of circumstances to the inequality in net … and for a detailed decomposition of net wealth inequality into a variety of circumstances; among them childhood background …

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