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This paper measures and decomposes the differences in earnings distributions between public sector and private sector employees in Germany for the years 1984-2001. Oaxaca decomposition results suggest that conditional wages are higher in the public sector for women but lower for men. Using the quantile regression decomposition technique proposed by Machado and Mata (2004), we find that the conditional ...
In:
Empirical Economics
30 (2005), 2, 505-520
| Blaise Melly
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Washington, D.C:
1991,
| Manfred Melzer, Reiner Staeglin
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When choosing a new location migrants usually improve their economic situation, but what about their subjective well being (SWB)? Based on longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, I investigate the impact of migration from eastern to western Germany on SWB. Hypotheses are derived from human capital theory but also from psychological approaches. Fixed-effects models enable me to ...
In:
Journal of Social Research & Policy
2 (2011), 2, 73-91
| Silvia M. Melzer
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This article analyses migration from East to West Germany, focusing on the influence of education on migration and on the self-selection processes involved in decisions regarding education and migration. Using human capital, signalling, and segmentation theory, hypotheses are derived on the influence of education on migration. The migration patterns for men and women are investigated on the basis of ...
In:
European Sociological Review
29 (2013), 2, 210-228
| Silvia M. Melzer
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This paper examines the determinants of family migration from a post-socialist country, the former German Democratic Republic (today, the eastern part of reunified Germany), to a western country, West Germany. The paper seeks to answer the following questions: (1) How does the migration behavior of married and cohabitating men and women differ from that of individuals who live alone? (2) What factors ...
In:
European Societies
15 (2013), 3, 423-445
| Silvia M. Melzer
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<b>Objective</b>: This paper investigates commuting and interregional migration from eastern to western Germany, and asks, first: Who chooses to migrate and who chooses to commute? Second: Does commuting serve as a stepping-stone or as a long-term alternative to migration? And third: What role does education and educational–occupational mismatch play in those choices? <b>Methods</b>: ...
In:
Demographic Research
41 (2019), 16, 461-476
| Silvia Maja Melzer, Thomas Hinz
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The German reunification, which several economists have called a “natural” experiment, provides the unique possibility to inquire the impact of migration on subjective well-being (SWB). The main goal of the research is to assessing the impact of adaptation, social comparison and relative deprivation on the change in SWB associated with moving from Eastern to Western Germany after the German reunification ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2012,
(SOEPpapers 448)
| Silvia Maja Melzer, Ruud J. A. Muffels
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Colchester:
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research,
2008,
(ISER Working Paper No. 2008-04)
| Daria Mendola, Annalisa Busetta, Arnstein Aassve
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Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2007,
(IZA DP No. 2627)
| Antonio Menezes, Dario Sciulli, José Cabral Vieira
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This paper analyzes the relationship between long-term care provision and the average individual wage rate. In addition, the effects of the number of hours spent on caregiving on the probability of employment as well as on the number of hours worked are examined. Data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE) of 2004 and 2006 is used to analyze caregiving effects on the European labor ...
Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Department of Economics, Technische Universität Dortmund, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Department of Economics and Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI),
2010,
(Ruhr Economic Papers #168)
| Annika Meng