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Essays on Households’ Contribution to Climate Change and Its Mitigation (Dissertation)

Risk factors for multimodal conservative approach failure before bariatric surgery

A multimodal conservative approach (MCA) is internationally recommended prior to bariatric surgery for the majority of patients. This research aimed to identify risk factors for therapy failure within the MCA.This study was conducted in a German bariatric obesity centre. Patients who underwent a 3- to 6-month preoperative MCA from November 2019 to October 2020 were prospectively recorded and analysed. ...

Mentorenprogramme für Geflüchtete: Krieger (DIW): Kaum Effekte auf Bildung und Erwerbstätigkeit (Interview mit Magdalena Krieger)

Bessere Sprachkenntnisse und sozial aktiver, das seien positive Folgen von Mentorenprogrammen für Geflüchtete, sagte Magdalena Krieger vom Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaft im Dlf. Bei der Integration in den Arbeitsmarkt ließen sich aber keine Unterschiede zu anderen Geflüchteten feststellen. Magdalena Krieger im Gespräch mit Thekla Jahn

(Un-)Zufriedenheit in der Landwirtschaft? Eine explorative Analyse der Arbeits- und Lebenszufriedenheit in Ostdeutschland

Im Wettbewerb um Fachkräfte sind attraktive Arbeits- und Lebensbedingen von entscheidender Bedeutung. Obwohl es seit vielen Jahren eine Zunahme von Erhebungen zur Arbeits- und Lebenszufriedenheit und darauf aufbauende empirische Studien gibt, existieren keine detaillierten regions- und betriebszweigbezogenen Beschreibungen der Arbeits- und Lebenszufriedenheit von Erwerbstätigen in der Landwirtschaft. ...

Mental health and well-being in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic among different population subgroups: evidence from representative longitudinal data in Germany

OBJECTIVES: To examine potential deteriorations in mental health and well-being in the first COVID-19 pandemic year compared with the previous decade focusing on the following vulnerable subgroups in Germany: women with minor children in the household, those living without a partner, younger and older adults, those in a precarious labour market situation, immigrants and refugees, and those with pre-existing ...

Unintended Consequences and Spill-over Effects of Family Policies: Six Essays in Labour and Family Economics (Dissertation)

This dissertation consists of six independent chapters contributing to the literature of labour and family economics. The main topic concerns how family policies impact on gender and socio-economic inequality in, at times, unintended ways. Chapter 2 uses administrative linked employer-employee data to examine whether employers statistically discriminated against women of childbearing age (potential ...

Child Penalties in Labour Market Skills

Child penalties in labour market outcomes are well-documented: after childbirth, mothers’ employment and earnings drop persistently compared to fathers. Beyond gender norms, a potential driver could be the loss in labour market skills due to mothers’ longer employment interruptions. This paper estimates child penalties in adult cognitive skills by adapting the pseudo-panel approach to a single cross-section ...

Normative Judgments Implicit in the Tax System: A Simulation Approach

How much does society value redistribution? The common method to derive inverse-optimum welfare weights is by inverting an optimal-tax model. Our alternative imposes fewer restrictions on labor supply and enables comparisons across household types. We use a structural labor supply model to calculate the marginal value of public funds for various small tax reductions, directly linked to welfare weights. ...

Intersektionalität und Diskriminierung: Klassismus und Gewalt in der Geburtshilfe

Surprisingly absent! On the earnings penalty of second-generation immigrants in Germany

Whether or not immigrants are well integrated into the labor market in Germany has been the focus of an ongoing public discussion. While there has been a lot of research on the career paths of first-generation immigrants, official statistics do not offer a lot of insight when it comes to the one of the offspring of the first generation. This paper seeks to address this issue for the second generation ...