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Do Working Hours Affect Health? Evidence from Statutory Workweek Regulations in Germany

This study estimates the causal effect of working hours on health. We deal with the endogeneity of working hours through instrumental variables techniques. In particular, we exploit exogenous variation in working hours from statutory workweek regulations in the German public sector as an instrumental variable. Using panel data, we run two-stage least squares regressions controlling for individual-specific ...

Great Expectations: Reservation Wages and the Minimum Wage Reform

We use the German Socio-Economic Panel to show that introducing a high-impact statutory minimum wage causes an increase in reservation wages of approximately 4 percent at the low end of the distribution. The shifts in reservation wages and observed wages due to the minimum wage reform are comparable in their magnitude. Additional results show that German citizens adjust their reservation wages more ...

The Impact of Minimum Wages on Well-Being: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Germany

To analyze well-being effects of minimum wages, the introduction of a minimum wage in Germany in 2015 is used as a quasi-experiment. Based on the representative SOEP data, a difference-in-differences design compares the development of life, job, and pay satisfaction between those who are affected by the reform according to their pre-intervention wages and those who already have marginally higher wages ...

The effect of exposure to STEM in secondary school on field of study choice

The choice for a field of study has large consequences on later labor market outcomes. However, in absence of liberal arts and sciences bachelors, field of study choice is often made quite early: either in secondary school or at the start of university. A growing literature shows that information about (direct or indirect through exposure) affects students’ field of study choices. We...

Strukturdaten zur Produktion und Beschäftigung im Baugewerbe: Sonderauswertungen zu langen Reihen der Entwicklung des Bauvolumens in Deutschland

Mandatory Day Care for Preschool Children Would Not Be an Effective Solution in Targeting Particular Children

In Germany, around 94 percent of children between the ages of three and six attend a day care center. Regarding the remaining six percent, many experts have speculated that children, primarily those from socio-economically disadvantaged households, do not use day care. Based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Families in Germany survey (FiD), the present study is one of the first ...

Mandatory day care for preschool children would not be an effective solution in targeting particular children

In Germany, around 94 percent of children between the ages of three and six attend a day care center. Regarding the remaining six percent, many experts have speculated that children, primarily those from socio-economically disadvantaged households, do not use day care. Based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Families in Germany survey (FiD), the present study is one of the first ...

Kita-Pflicht für Kinder ab drei Jahren wäre wenig zielgenau

Wer sind die sechs Prozent der Kinder im Alter von drei bis sechs Jahren, die keine Kita besuchen? DIW-Studie zeigt, dass Nicht-Kita-Kinder beispielsweise häufiger einen Migrationshintergrund haben, das trifft aber längst nicht auf alle zu – Kita-Pflicht hätte vermutlich nur einen äußerst geringen Nutzen – Besser wäre eine gezieltere Förderung, beispielsweise ...

„Kurz vor der Einschulung gibt es kaum noch Kinder, die nicht in eine Kita gehen.“ Interview mit C. Katharina Spieß

Frau Spieß, Sie haben sich in einer Studie mit Kindern auseinandergesetzt, die nicht in eine Kita gehen. Was ist der Fokus Ihrer Untersuchung? Es geht dabei um die Kinder im sogenannten Kindergartenalter, also im Alter von drei Jahren bis zum Schuleintritt, und die Frage, welche Kinder heutzutage keine Kindertageseinrichtung besuchen. Wir wissen aus der amtlichen Statistik, dass das sehr wenige ...