Although the standard work week is longer in East than in West Germany, there is a higher incidence and average amount of unpaid overtime in the East. We try to explain the striking differences in unpaid overtime by analyzing the labor supply side. We focus on the investment character of...

This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine...

This study analyzes real wage cyclicality for male full-time workers within employer–employee matches in Germany over the period 1984–2004. Five different wage measures are compared: the standard hourly wage rate; hourly wage earnings including overtime and bonus pay; the effective wage,...

Das vorliegende Papier untersucht anhand von Daten des Sozio-Oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) die kurzfristige Wirkung von öffentlichen Rauchverboten auf das Rauchverhalten in Deutschland. In den Jahren 2007 und 2008 wurden sukzessive Rauchverbote in allen sechzehn Bundesländern eingeführt. Diese...

Following German unification in 1990, a number of initial studies were conducted on the development of the returns to education in the eastern states of the former GDR. These studies reveal a general consensus of initial falls in the returns to education for the eastern states (Krueger and...

This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's federal states. We exploit this variation to identify the effect that smoke-free policies had on...

This study analyzes real wage cyclicality for male full-time workers within employer-employee matches in Germany over the period 1984-2004. Five different wage measures are compared: the standard hourly wage rate; hourly wage earnings including overtime and bonus pay; the effective wage, which...

The present study investigates the extent to which cognitive abilities and personality traits are passed on from parents to their children during adolescence and young adulthood in Germany. Representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) indicate a higher level of...