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Polluted Job Search: The Impact of Poor Air Quality on Reservation Wages

This paper investigates the impact of air pollution on reservation wages. We use rich survey data on unemployed job seekers in Germany and exploit variation in individual exposure to fine particulate matter (PM10) based on the quasi-random allocation of interview slots to individuals. Our results show that an increase in PM10 by one standard deviation (corresponding to 12 μg/m3) reduces the reservation ...

Understanding the public-private sector wage gap in Germany: New evidence from a Fixed Effects quantile Approach∗

The public-private sector wage gap is an important labor market indicator, reflecting sectoral differences in wage and recruitment policies. We provide new evidence on this sectoral gap throughout the wage distribution in Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984–2017), we decompose the wage gap and control for unobservable factors that endogenously determine the occupational sector ...

Quantile regression estimands and models: revisiting the motherhood wage penalty debate

This paper discusses the crucial but sometimes neglected differences between unconditional quantile regression (UQR) models and quantile treatment effects (QTE) models. We argue that there is a frequent mismatch between the aim of the quantile regression analysis and the quantitative toolkit used in much of the applied literature, including the motherhood wage penalty literature. This mismatch may ...

Observability, Honesty, and the Social Image Costs of Lying

We study the role of social image in influencing lying behavior through a pre-registered within-subject experiment embedded in the 2020 wave of the German SocioEconomic Panel Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS). By exogenously manipulating the observability of lying across two tasks, we explore how individuals respond to increased image costs of lying. By exploiting the rich comprehensive socio-demographic ...

Utilisation of dental services by refugees in Germany: Results of the population-based RESPOND survey

Background: The utilisation of outpatient dental services is an important indicator for monitoring healthcare provision in Germany. In the general population, the 12-month prevalence of dental service utilization is 82.2 %. For refugees, this indicator has hardly been measured, although studies suggest an objectively high need for dental care. Methodology: As part of the population-based cross-sectional ...

The Long-term Effects of Inflation on Inflation Expectations

We study the long-term effects of inflation surges on inflation expectations. German households living in areas with higher local inflation during the hyperinflation of the 1920s expect higher inflation today. Our evidence points towards a transmission of inflation experiences from parents to children and through local institutions. Differential historical inflation also modulates the updating of expectations ...

Nonparametric regression with selectively missing covariates

We consider the problem of regression with selectively observed covariates in a nonparametric framework. Our approach relies on instrumental variables that explain variation in the latent covariates but have no direct effect on selection. The regression function of interest is shown to be a weighted version of observed conditional expectation where the weighting function is a fraction of selection ...

Correction for Breznau et al., Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty

Die IAB-SOEP-Migrationsstichprobe: Leben, lernen, arbeiten - wie es Migranten in Deutschland geht

Weltweit ist Migration eins der zentralen Zukunftsthemen. Vielfältige Motive veranlassen immer mehr Menschen, ihren Lebensmittelpunkt - zum Teil mehrfach - in ein anderes Land zu verlegen. Das Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) Nürnberg und das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP) des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) führen seit dem Jahr 2013 eine Befragung von ...

Institutionelle Hürden beeinflussen Umfang und Qualität der Erwerbstätigkeit von Geflüchteten

In diesem Forschungsbericht wird die Arbeitsmarktintegration der zwischen 2013 bis Mitte 2019 nach Deutschland zugezogenen Geflüchteten und ihrer Haushaltsmitglieder auf Grundlage der IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Befragung von Geflüchteten untersucht. Demnach sind sowohl die Erwerbstätigenquoten als auch die Verdienste seit dem Ende der COVID-19-Pandemie merklich gestiegen und die Qualität der Arbeitsmarktintegration ...