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Cross-sectional age-skill profiles suggest that cognitive skills start declining by age 30 if not earlier. If accurate, such age-driven skill losses pose a major threat to the human capital of societies with rapidly aging populations. We estimate actual age-skill profiles from individual changes in literacy and numeracy skills at different ages. We use the unique German longitudinal component of the ...
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Science Advances
11 (2025), 10, eads1560, 13 S.
| Eric A. Hanushek, Lavinia Kinne, Frauke Witthöft, Ludger Wößmann
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Informal childcare care by grandparents, other relatives or friends is an important source of support in many Western countries, including Germany. Yet the role of this type of care is often overlooked in accounts of social policies supporting families with children, which tend to focus on formal childcare. This article examines whether the large formal childcare expansion occurring in Germany in the ...
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Social Policy and Administration
59 (2025), 3, S. 383-398
| Ludovica Gambaro, Clara Schäper, C. Katharina Spiess
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We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children’s labor market out-
comes. We focus on health shocks that increase care dependency abruptly. Our
estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated
families. Empirical results based on administrative data show a significant negative
impact on the labor market activities of children. This effect is more pronounced
for ...
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Journal of Labor Economics
43 (2025) 3, S. 803-841
| Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Jörg Paetzold, Julia Schmieder
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This study explores how gender and age interact in shaping beliefs about fair pay through a factorial survey experiment conducted with German employees. Respondents evaluated hypothetical worker descriptions varying in age, gender, and earnings. While no gender gap in fair earnings was found for the youngest hypothetical workers, a significant gap favoring men emerged with increasing age. This suggests ...
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The British Journal of Sociology
76 (2025),1, S. 180-187
| Jule Adriaans, Carsten Sauer, Katharina Wrohlich
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Research has consistently shown that lower earnings for women and higher earnings for men are generally regarded as fair by both women and men. Previous research has focused on structural factors to explain this phenomenon, but has neglected proximate relationships at work. This study examines how the supervisors’ gender relates to employees’ justice attitudes toward the earnings of men and women. ...
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Socio-Economic Review
(2025), im Ersch. [online first: 2025-12-04]
| Jule Adriaans, Carsten Sauer, Anja Kirsch, Katharina Wrohlich
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Research has consistently shown that lower earnings for women and higher earnings for men are generally regarded as fair by both women and men. Previous research has focused on structural factors to explain this phenomenon, but has neglected proximate relationships at work. This study examines how the supervisors’ gender relates to employees’ justice attitudes toward the earnings of men and women. ...
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Socio-Economic Review
(2025), im Ersch. [online first: 2025-12-04]
| Jule Adriaans, Carsten Sauer, Anja Kirsch, Katharina Wrohlich
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Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. This paper shows that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data – Facebook interests – to construct novel regional measures of patience within Italy and the United ...
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The Economic Journal
(2025), im Ersch. [online first: 2025-06-18]
| Lavinia Kinne
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In this paper, we analyze if an increase in the working life leads to more human capital investment via on-the-job training. We obtain RDD-estimates from a sharp date-of-birth cut-off, generated by a pension reform that increased the Early Retirement Age (ERA) by three years for many women in Germany. In our preferred specification, we find that this reform causally increased on-the-job training by ...
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Labour Economics
83 (2023), 102396, 13 S.
| Terese Backhaus, Clara Schäper, Annekatrin Schrenker
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Employment among mothers has been rising in recent decades, although mothers of young children often work fewer hours than other women do. Parallel to this trend, approval of maternal employment has increased, albeit not evenly across groups. However, differences in attitudes remain unexplored despite their importance for better understanding mothers’ labour market behaviour. Meanwhile, the employment ...
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Comparative Population Studies
48 (2023), S. 339-368
| Ludovica Gambaro, C. Katharina Spiess, Katharina Wrohlich, Elena Ziege
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Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women’s employment rates but to decrease their wages in case of extended leave duration. In view of these potential trade-offs, many countries are discussing the optimal design of parental leave policies. We analyze the impact of a major parental leave reform on mothers’ long-term earnings. The 2007 German parental leave reform replaced a means-tested ...
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Labour Economics
80 (2023), 102296, 13 S.
| Corinna Frodermann, Katharina Wrohlich, Aline Zucco