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We investigate whether a historical pension concept, the tontine, yields enough innovative potential to extend and improve the prevailing privately funded pension solutions in a modern way. The tontine basically generates an age-increasing cash flow, which can help to match the increasing financing needs at old ages. In contrast to traditional pension products, however, the tontine generates volatile ...
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European Actuarial Journal
11 (2021), 1, 49-86
| Jan-Hendrik Weinert, Helmut Gründl
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Using three waves of the Germany's individual-level panel data, this paper analyses whether there are any changes in the trust levels of East German migrants who move to the former Western German regions after the reunification. The results demonstrate that the duration of living in the West is positively associated with East German migrants’ trust and that the labour market is the possible channel ...
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Social Indicators Research
155 (2021), 3, 959-981
| Seong Hee Kim
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Recessions negatively impact the health of individuals experiencing hardship. In this paper, we investigate whether there are also long-term effects for those born during difficult economic times through the effects on their health behavior. Based on a theoretical model of parental socialization against smoking and using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, we assess smoking behavior of children ...
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Journal of Family and Economic Issues
43 (2022), 4, 799-814
| Kristin J. Kleinjans, Andrew Gill
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To increase labour market participation among migrants, an increase in female labour market participation is important, with wages being a significant incentive. In research on the gender wage gap, the consideration of housework has been a milestone. Gender differences in housework time have always been much greater among migrants than among native-born individuals. Based on data obtained from the ...
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Journal of Family and Economic Issues
42 (2021), 3, 473-488
| Tanja Fendel
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We exploit local and temporal variation in the availability of public childcare for children under the age of three that induces exogenous variation in childcare attendance. We find a weak, positive average treatment effect (ATE) on maternal labor supply. The estimation of the average treatment effect is interesting – however, possibly masking important effect heterogeneity. Examining selection behavior ...
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Review of Economics of the Household
19 (2021), 3, 641-676
| Eric Schuss, Mohammed Azaouagh
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This paper answers three research questions: What is the impact of fixed-term employment on the well-being of partners? How do these spillover effects differ by gender, and do gender differences depend on socialization in East or West Germany? Do individual well-being, perceived job insecurity, and financial worries mediate the spillover effects? We use longitudinal data from the Socio-Economic Panel ...
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Journal of Happiness Studies
22 (2021), 7, 3001-3021
| Sonja Scheuring, Jonas Voßemer, Anna Baranowska-Rataj, Giulia Tattarini
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The paper investigates the relationship between structural partner market constraints and the timing and educational sorting of unions in Germany (1985–2018). We integrate the literature on the effect of the reversed gender gap in education on educational assortative mating, with a focus on mating dynamics and the measurement of the partner market over the life course. We concentrate on two particular ...
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European Journal of Population
37 (2021), 4, 851-876
| Giulia Corti, Stefani Scherer
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A commonly expressed concern about immigration is that it undermines social cohesion in the receiving country. In this paper, we study the impact of a large and sudden inflow of asylum seekers on several indicators of social cohesion. In 2015/16, over one million asylum seekers from Syria, Afghanistan, and elsewhere arrived in Germany. Anecdotal evidence suggests that this inflow changed the public ...
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World Development
167 (2023), 106228
| Emanuele Albarosa, Benjamin Elsner
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Survey evidence shows that the magnitude of the tax liability plays a role in value judgements about which groups deserve tax breaks. Such considerations can be explained with a role for the tax burden itself, but do not follow from standard welfarist optimal taxation. We show that the German tax-transfer system is not in line with a standard welfarist inequality averse social planner. Instead, it ...
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FinanzArchiv
78 (2022), 3, 312-341
| Robin Jessen, Maria Metzing, Davud Rostam-Afschar
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Two competing theories of social support and role specialization have been invoked to explain how marital status affects labour market outcomes. Whereas evidence of beneficial labour market outcomes among married men and employed married women favours a social support perspective, evidence of married women’s reduced labour market participation corresponds to a role specialization perspective. We make ...
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European Sociological Review
38 (2022), 1, 73-87
| Maik Hamjediers, Paul Schmelzer