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This paper studies the patterns of welfare dependence among first generation immigrants and natives in Germany before and after a substantial recent reform of the welfare system. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, the analysis presents life cycle trajectories of transfer receipt for immigrants and natives and studies the correlation between contextual factors and transfer receipt. ...
In:
Review of Income and Wealth
59 (2013), 3, 437-459
| Regina T. Riphahn, Christoph Wunder
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We study state dependence in welfare receipt and investigate whether welfare transitions changed after a welfare reform. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial logit estimators and find that state dependence in welfare receipt is not a central feature of the German welfare system. We find that welfare transitions changed after the reform: transitions from welfare ...
In:
Empirical Economics
50 (2016), 4, 1303-1329
| Regina T. Riphahn, Christoph Wunder
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We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of apprenticeship and vocational training. There are no significant differences for different types of vocational ...
In:
Education Economics
24 (2016), 1, 33-57
| Regina T. Riphahn, Michael Zibrowius
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Several studies have indicated an increase in men's mortality in East Germany between 1989 and 1991 in the wake of the reunification of 1990. For some age-groups, death rates soared by up to thirty per cent. This study investigates the evolution and the causes of such ashort term demographic crisis. A preliminary analysis clearly indicates that the reported mortality growth is not just a statistical ...
Helsinki:
The United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER),
1997,
(Research for Action Paper No. 42)
| Regina T. Riphahn, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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In:
Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Renato Paniccià ,
The Mortality Crisis in Transitional Economies
Oxford: Oxford University Press
2000
227-252
| Regina T. Riphahn, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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In:
Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ)
27-28 (2012), 45-51
| Nicole Rippin
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2013,
| Nicole Rippin
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In:
APuZ ,
Oben - Mitte - Unten: Zur Vermessung der Gesellschaft (Schriftenreihe der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Band 1576)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung
2015
293-304
| Nicole Rippin
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The German government decided to use Amartya Sen's capability approach as the conceptual framework for the national ‘Poverty and Wealth Reports’ but concluded at the same time that the purely income-based at-risk-of-poverty rate (AROPR) is a satisfactory instrument to operationalise the capability approach. This decision made the latter the official measure to analyse poverty in Germany. This ...
In:
Forum for Social Economics
45 (2016), 2-3, 230255
| Nicole Rippin
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This thesis investigates the relationship between local happiness and firm investment decisions in Germany for the period 2000 to2015. Investments in capital and research and development (R&D) are hypothesized to be effected by the sentimental setting of decision makers due to their inherent risk and long-term characteristics. The analysis finds no evidence that capital expenditures are correlated ...
2017,
| Tristan Risch