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The empirical literature is inconclusive about whether a country’s democratization goes hand in hand with a reallocation of economic resources. With newly available individual-level data of former residents of the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR), we analyse how supporters and opponents of the socialist system performed within the market-based democracy of West Germany after reunification. ...
In:
European Journal of Political Economy
76 (2023), 2023, 102252
| Max Deter, Martin Lange
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Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings uncertainty, and job change. Migrants are found to be negatively selected with respect to labor market outcomes, with a large drop in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable positive earnings and employment gains of migration both in comparison ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2020,
(IZA DP No. 13740)
| Julian Emmler, Bernd Fitzenberger
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This work aims to integrate previous research perspectives on terminal well-being decline and partner bereavement by investigating the codevelopment of life satisfaction in the years preceding the death of one partner. We analyzed longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (N = 1,450 couples) and applied dyadic multilevel models to estimate both partners’ trajectories of life satisfaction ...
In:
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
119 (2020), 4, 881-900
| Jenna Wünsche, Rebekka Weidmann, Alexander Grob
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Soziale Kontakte alleinerziehender Mütter wurden empirisch bisher überwiegend anhand kleiner selektiver Stichproben und im Querschnitt betrachtet. Die Möglichkeit, die Zusammenhänge zu generalisieren, ist nicht zuletzt durch begrenzte Verfügbarkeit geeigneter Längsschnittdaten eingeschränkt. Dieser Artikel greift auf eine der verfügbaren Datenquellen zurück um zu untersuchen, inwiefern Übergänge ins ...
In:
Journal of Family Research
32 (2020), 1, 25-44
| Hannah Zagel
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This study analyzed the association between work-family life courses and life satisfaction among 2,542 women aged 60–65 years (born between 1920 and 1957) using German SOEP data and ANOVA models. The results are embedded in a description of the specific role of mothers in Germany (as primary caregivers), different theoretical assumptions (from role theories and theories on cumulative advantages and ...
In:
Journal of Family Issues
42 (2021), 5, 1029-1054
| Okka Zimmermann
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We examine the differential effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a “disruptive exogenous shock” to family life. We make use of a novel representative survey of parental well-being collected in May and June 2020 in Germany, when schools and day ...
In:
Review of Economics of the Household
19 (2021), 1, 91-122
| Mathias Huebener, Sevrin Waights, C. Katharina Spieß, Nico A. Siegel, Gert G. Wagner
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This paper investigates whether the effects of affordable and easily available public child care on fertility and maternal employment depend on the career costs of children a woman faces. It builds on the idea that these costs vary by occupation and education. In a generalized Diff-in-Diff, I exploit the substantial variation between West German counties concerning intensity and speed of the provision ...
Erlangen-Nuremberg:
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg,
2019,
(BGPE Discussion Paper No. 185)
| Katrin Huber
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This paper synthesizes recent research in economics and psychology on the measurement and empirical importance of personality skills and preferences. They predict and cause important life outcomes such as wages, health, and longevity. Skills develop over the life cycle and can be enhanced by education, parenting, and environmental influences to different degrees at different ages. Economic analysis ...
Cambridge:
National Bureau of Economic Research,
2019,
(NBER Working Paper 26459)
| James J. Heckman, Tomáš Jagelka, Tim Kautz
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Commonly described as the “gender care gap”, there is a persistent gender difference in the division of domestic responsibilities in most developed countries. We provide novel evidence on the short- and long-run effects of an exogenous shock on paternal availability, through a job loss, on the allocation of domestic work within couples. We find that paternal child care and housework significantly increase ...
In:
Review of Economics of the Household
20 (2022), 2, 579-607
| Juliane Hennecke, Astrid Pape
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This article investigates whether gender-role values are linked to refugee women’s social contact in Germany. By building on the “preferences–third parties–opportunities” framework, we explicate a direct and an indirect path through which gender-role values may be related to refugee women’s minority-majority, intra-minority, and inter-minority contact. By applying median regressions, marginal structural ...
In:
International Migration Review
55 (2021), 3, 688-717
| Jörg Hartmann, Jan-Philip Steinmann