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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
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One of the key sociological aspects of the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe after communism was a shift from collectivistic to individualistic orientations. This article observes trends in individualism, operationalized as self-orientation, in Poland and Germany, with the latter further dissected into western and eastern part of the country. While western Germany was originally contrasted ...
In:
International Journal of Comparative Sociology
65 (2024), 5, 614-635
| Ireneusz Sadowski
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Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, many people have fled the war and left their home country. By the end of January 2023, more than one million Ukrainian refugees had been registered in Germany alone. In contrast to refugees from other countries of origin in Germany, Ukrainian citizens can choose their place of residence if they have either found private accommodation ...
In:
Comparative Population Studies
48 (2023), 261-280
| Lenore Sauer, Andreas Ette, Hans Walter Steinhauer, Manuel Siegert, Kerstin Tanis
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To examine the effect of marriage entry on annual net rather than gross earnings across different institutional settings. Background Previous research focused on men's gross wage marital premium to explore whether selection or specialization explains premiums. However, gross wages do not reflect disposable resources because taxes still have to be deducted. As the tax treatment varies across countries ...
In:
Journal of Marriage and Family
86 (2024), 1, 176-198
| Manuel Schechtl, Nicole Kapelle
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This article shows how late-life incomes from work and pensions evolved in the United Kingdom between 1991 and 2007, the year the Great Recession began. Our main contribution comes from focusing on changes across cohorts in different educational groups while also considering the gender divide. Our statistical analyses based on the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) suggest that deindustrialisation, ...
In:
Ageing and Society
43 (2023), 2, 393-420
| Paul Schmelzer, Alberto Veira-Ramos