The educational and employment trajectories of migrant children in France and Germany are extremely diverse. The few successful ones dominate the public eye. Yet successful biographies of young adults with a migration background are in no way a negligible exception. However, the picture is different in the two countries: while in France more migrants' descendants manage to reach their (secondary?) ...
The joint taxation of married couples in Germany with full income splitting is still a major hindrance to the participation of married women in the labor market. In their current financial proposals, the SPD (Social Democratic Party) is calling for income splitting for married couples to be replaced by individual taxation with maintenance deductions, in accordance with existing schemes for divorced ...
This study investigates whether the willingness to take income risks revealed by occupational choice is transmitted from parents to their children. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find that fathers' riskiness of job is a significant determinant of children's occupational risk, in particular sons' (excluding parent-child pairs with identical occupations). This is the first ...
Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdepend-ent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and income, which in particular restricts social participation. The interdependency of the multiple poverty dimensions under a strong (union approach) and weak focus ...
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study examines the relationship between immigrant residential segregation and immigrants' satisfaction with the neighborhood. The estimates show that immigrants living in segregated areas are less satisfied with the neighborhood. This is consistent with the hypothesis that housing discrimination rather than self-selection plays an important role ...
This paper extends the idea of using ex-ante risk measures in a model of precautionary savings by explicitly simulating future net-income risks. The uncertainty measure takes into account the interdependency of labour market status and health. The model is estimated for prime age males using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study for years 2001-2007. The empirical analysis is conducted using a measure ...
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 employment propects. The panel setup and richness of the data allows us to overcome some of the identification problems which are present in this strand of literature. ...
In der letzten Dekade haben die Bruttostundenlöhne lediglich stagniert. Betroffen waren nicht nur einzelne Gruppen von Arbeitnehmern, vielmehr war die Lohnentwicklung übergreifend schwach. Das gilt sowohl hinsichtlich der Entgelte für Männer als auch der für Frauen, für Vollzeit- wie für Teilzeitbeschäftigte, und sowohl für einfache Arbeit als auch für Tätigkeiten, für deren Ausübung ein Studium erforderlich ...
Der Gründungszuschuss ist eines der erfolgreichsten Instrumente der Bundesagentur für Arbeit. Er unterstützt auf effektive Weise Gründer aus Arbeitslosigkeit auf ihrem Weg in die Selbständigkeit. Weil zu viel Mitnahme und zu wenige nachhaltige Gründungen befürchtet werden, soll nun zur Effizienzerhöhung der Rechtsanspruch auf diesen Zuschuss in eine Ermessensleistung umgewandelt, das Budget um 74 Prozent ...
