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Partial Retirement, Financial Student Aid, and Labor Market Responses: Empirical Evidence from Germany

What a Difference Peers Can Make: The Impact of Work Norms on Unemployment Duration - A Regional Approach

Social interaction models, i.e. the changing sequence of actions between individuals who modify their behaviour under the influence of their peers, have rarely enjoyed as high a profile in economic analysis as they do today. This paper outlines a model of how social interactions among persons belonging to the same region might influence individual unemployment duration. The impact is assumed to be ...

The Relation between Life Patterns and Success at Work of Women and Men in Germany

Private Lebenssituation und Karriereentwicklung in männlichen Biographien

Success at Work, Life Patterns, and Overall Life Satisfaction: Changes in the Lives of Men and Women since the 1980s in West Germany

This paper focuses on the structural relationship between family building and upward mobility. Typically this relationship is analyzed for women only, while we include men as well. With new patterns of intimate partnerships and non-traditional families, on the one hand, and a changing labor market, on the other hand, new assertions about their connection have emerged. Using SOEP-data, the possible ...

Social Rented Housing and its Social and Economic Context in Germany

Das kauf ich! Nicht. 1. Was kann ich mir leisten?

Niedrige Zinsen, die Gefahr steigender Preise und dann noch Weihnachten: Geld auszugeben erscheint vielen Menschen derzeit ratsamer, als es anzulegen. Was wir uns finanziell leisten können, aus ethischer Sicht leisten dürfen und wie uns Werbung verführt.

Struktureller Arbeitsmarkt sowie Qualifikation und Lohnspreizung: Eine empirische Analyse für Deutschland (Diplomarbeit)

Verwirrende Studien: Wie viel Arbeit soll es denn sein?

Essays on residential trajectories and social ties in the stage of early adulthood (Dissertation)

This PhD thesis tackles from an empirical and quantitative perspective the influence of social ties on geographical mobility behaviour and decision-making. The dissertation is composed of three lines of research all framed in Life Course theory and taking advantage of Event-History techniques to analyze individual residential biographies of young adults. The first essay deals about the influence of ...