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Remittances sent by refugees to their home countries has been a hotly debated policy topic in Germany over the past years and has led to the introduction of a payment card for asylum applicants. This Weekly Report investigates how the share of people living in Germany who send remittances abroad has changed over time according to their migration background (with or without a refugee background) and ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
49/2024 (2024), 301-308
| Adriana Cardozo Silva, Sabine Zinn
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Previous research shows that female workers are less sensitive to wages in their decision to switch jobs than male workers, and that this could explain a substantial part of the gender wage gap. This paper studies to what extent gender differences in preferences and personality traits explain the gender gap in the wage-elasticity of job-to-job transitions in the labor market. Using a novel decomposition ...
In:
Journal for Labour Market Research
58 (2024), 26
| Céline Detilleux, Nick Deschacht
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Homeownership is an important private investment protecting against old-age poverty. With buying a home being an expensive, long-term investment, studies show that insecure employment is a major reason why couples do not make this commitment. We build on these findings, asking what role risk aversion plays in moderating the impact of labour market insecurities on the likelihood of buying a house. We ...
In:
Dirk Hofäcker, Kati Kuitto ,
Youth Employment Insecurity and Pension Adequacy
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing
105-124
| Sophia Fauser, Sonja Scheuring
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Roughly a decade ago, the entry and admission of refugees has prominently returned to the political agendas in Europe. With that, researchers and policy-makers have shown increasing interest in factors that determine the participation of refugees in receiving societies, labor markets and education systems. The analyses in this paper address the conflicting views in sociology of migration on whether ...
SocArXiv,
2024,
(SocArXiv Papers)
| Lidwina Gundacker
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This study examines the long-run impact of air pollution exposure at the month of birth and during pregnancy on labour outcomes in Germany. I match air pollution levels on a federal-state level to a longitudinal survey sample on individuals born in Germany. The study focuses on individuals born between 1985 to 1992, as this time period relates to consistent economic growth in Germany. The main identification ...
2023,
| Johanna Lidman
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This data report describes the linked survey data of SOEP Core, IAB-SOEP Migration Sample, IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees and SOEP Innovation Sample with administrative data of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB).
Nürnberg:
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB),
2025,
(FDZ-Datenreport)
| Manfred Antoni, Mattis Beckmannshagen, Markus M. Grabka, Sekou Keita, Parvati Trübswetter
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This paper documents the process of linking the records of all bachelor’s and master’s graduates of the Nuremberg Institute of Technology between 2010 and 2020 with administrative labor market biography data from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). The success rate of the linkage was 98%, which is well above the average of previous linkage projects with IAB data. We only find negligible differences ...
SSRN:
2024,
| Manfred Antoni, Timon K. Drewes, Hans-Dieter Gerner, Robert Jäckle, Stefan Schwarz
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In surveys, attempts are increasingly made to link survey data with register, geospatial and/or social media data on an individual level. Usually, this requires informed consent to the data linkage. Respondents must agree to the linking of their survey answers to other datasets, and researchers are obligated to inform them sufficiently. In contrast to other countries, few attempts at obtaining informed ...
In:
Survey Methods: Insights from the Field
(online first) (2023),
| Johann Bacher, Johannes Kepler
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The German government is planning to reform Hartz IV by replacing it with a simpler and more accessible system known as Bürgergeld. Using a random-based survey of eight job centers in North Rhine-Westphalia, this Weekly Report considers the perspectives of the long-term unemployed: What do they think about the reforms? How do they perceive their situation? What are their daily lives like? The findings ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
29/30/31/2022 (2022), 183-192
| Fabian Beckmann, Rolf G. Heinze, Jürgen Schupp
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The availability of social media data is growing and represents a new data source for economic research. This paper presents a detailed study on the use of data from a career-oriented social networking platform for measuring employee flows and employer networks. The employment data are exported from user profiles and linked to the Mannheim Enterprise Panel (MUP). The linked employer-employee (LEE) ...
Mannheim:
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW),
2023,
(ZEW Discussion Paper No. 23-041)
| Patrick Breithaupt, Hanna Hottenrott, Christian Rammer, Konstatin Römer