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Poverty, Inequality, and Income Redistribution in the "Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism" - United States, Germany, and the Netherlands, 1985 to 1989

The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

Discretionary Time - A New Measure of Freedom

Determinants of Regional Variation in Health Expenditures in Germany

Health care expenditure in Germany shows clear regional differences. Such geographic variations are often seen as an indicator for inefficiency. With its homogeneous health care system, low co-payments and uniform prices, Germany is a particularly suited example to analyse regional variations. We use data for the year 2011 on expenditure, utilization of health services and state of health in Germany's ...

Wage mobility

Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers

Temporary contracts have become an important mode of employment in many countries. We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular attention to the question if workers with temporary contracts are affected differently than workers with permanent contracts. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel, linked with industry level ...

Antrag: Für eine faire und transparente private Altersvorsorge und ein stabiles Drei-Säulen-System

Human capital depreciation during hometime

We estimate human capital depreciation rates during career interruptions due to family reasons (parental leave and household time) in male- and female-dominated occupations. If human capital depreciation due to family related career breaks is lower in female than in male occupations, this can explain occupational sex segregation because women will take the costs of future breaks into account when optimizing ...

Fast jedes zehnte Kind geht auf eine Privatschule – Nutzung hängt insbesondere in Ostdeutschland zunehmend vom Einkommen der Eltern ab

Der Anteil von Kindern, die eine Privatschule besuchen, hat sich seit Beginn der 1990er Jahre fast verdoppelt: Mittlerweile gehen gut neun Prozent aller SchülerInnen in Deutschland auf eine Privatschule. In Ostdeutschland liegt ihr Anteil mit etwas mehr als zehn Prozent inzwischen über dem Anteil in Westdeutschland (knapp neun Prozent). Wie dieser Bericht auf Basis von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen ...

Parenthood and Risk Preferences

This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before becoming a parent, is largest shortly after giving birth and disappears when the child becomes older. These ...