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We estimate the relationship between changes in the body mass index (bmi) and wages or satisfaction, respectively, in a panel of German employees. In contrast to previous findings, our dynamic models indicate an inverse u-shaped association between bmi and wages. As the implied maximum occurs in the ‘overweight’ category, the positive trend in weight may not yet constitute a major limitation to productivity. ...
In:
Applied Economics
47 (2015), 41, 4364-4376
| Frieder Kropfhäußer, Marco Sunder
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In:
Richard Freeman, Lawrence Katz ,
Differences and Changes in Wage Structures
Chicago: Chicago University Press
405-443
| Alan B. Krueger, Jörn-Steffen Pischke
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In:
German-American Academic Council Foundation (GAAC) ,
Third Public GAAC Symposium - Labor Markets in the USA and Germany (Publications of the GAAC, Symposia, volume 5)
Bonn-Washington: GAAC
S. 99-126
| Alan B. Krueger, Jörn-Steffen Pischke
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Gender differences in justice evaluations of earnings are of considerable interest since the late 1970s, especially against the backdrop that women usually earn less than men but widely perceive their earnings as being more just. Newer research specifically draws attention to contextual influences in order to explain this seeming paradox. The idea of this paper is to first identify three parameters ...
Bielefeld:
DFG Research Center (SFB) 882 From From Heterogeneities to Inequalities,
2015,
(SFB 882 Working Paper Series, no. 45)
| Sonja Kruphölter, Carsten Sauer, Peter Valet
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In:
Economic Bulletin
32 (1995), 3, 19-24
| Peter Krause
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In general, day care subsidies are accepted as a means of creating equal chances for both children and mothers in the labour market. Although there is a broad consensus that the use of children's day care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done. Moreover, there is little knowledge on the distributional effects of day care subsidies. In order to assess whether ...
In:
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal
11 (2003), 2, 159-175
| Michaela Kreyenfeld, C. Katharina Spieß, Gert G. Wagner
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In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done. Moreover, there is little knowledge on the distributional effects of child care subsidies. In order to assess whether ...
Colchester:
University of Essex,
1999,
(Working papers of ESRC Research Centre on Micro-social Change. Paper No. 99-21)
| Michaela Kreyenfeld, Gert G. Wagner
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In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch (Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of German Socio-Economic Panel Study Users, ed. by Büchel, Felix; D'Ambrosio, Conchita and Frick, Joachim R.)
125 (2005), 1, 145-156
| Michaela Kreyenfeld, Cordula Zabel
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This paper provides an overview of fertility data for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Particular attention is given to the availability of order-specific fertility data. We discuss the quality of data provided by the Statistical Offices, both birth registration data and censuses or microcensuses. In addition, we explore how social science surveys can be used to generate order-specific fertility indicators, ...
In:
Comparative Population Studies - Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungswissenschaft
36 (2011), 2-3, 349-380
| Michaela Kreyenfeld, Kryštof Zeman, Marion Burkimsher, Ina Jaschinski
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Objective: This article looks at couples' migration decision making processes and their gender‐specific employment consequences after migration to Germany. Background: International migration has evolved into a common experience for couples around the globe. Previous research has focused on the internal migration of couples and families. This article is the first to consider couples' international ...
In:
Journal of Marriage and Family
82 (2020), 3, 934-952
| Magdalena Krieger