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It is well known that individuals’ risk attitudes are related to behavioral outcomes such as smoking, portfolio decisions, and also educational attainment, but there is barely any evidence on whether parental risk attitudes affect the educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children’s secondary school track choice in Germany where tracking occurs at age ten ...
In:
Economics of Education Review
31 (2012), 5, 727-743
| Guido Heineck, Oliver Wölfel
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Working time arrangements determine, to a large extent, the successful balancing of work and family life. This study investigates the role of working time preferences and hours mismatch for well-being among couples. The empirical evidence indicates that well-being is generally lower among those with working time mismatch. Particularly underemployment is detrimental for well-being. We further provide ...
In:
Labour Economics
24 (2013), October 2013, 244-252
| Guido Heineck, Christoph Wunder
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Berlin:
Rat für Sozial- und WirtschaftsDaten (RatSWD),
2009,
(RatSWD Working Paper No. 129)
| Jörg Heining
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Edinburgh:
Heriot-Watt University,
1999,
| Georges Heinrich
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Syracuse:
Syracuse University, Maxwell School,
2003,
(Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 344)
| Georges Heinrich
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In:
Victor W. Marshall, Walter R. Heinz, Helga Krüger, Anil Verma ,
Restructuring Work and the Life Course
Toronto u.a.: University of Toronto Press
3-22
| Walter R. Heinz
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Amsterdam:
Amsterdam University Press,
2015,
| Jan Paul Heisig
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Despite a growing interest in the effects of job loss, research on its consequences for older workers and their economic situation in retirement remains scant. Using 30 years of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we examine the incidence and consequences of job loss at ages 50 to 64, following displaced workers for up to 10 years after displacement. We implement a difference-in-differences ...
In:
Work, Aging and Retirement
3 (2017), 3, 257-272
| Jan Paul Heisig, Jonas Radl
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This article investigates the effects of an increase in paid parental leave — twelve months instead of six months — on children’s long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), allows us to circumvent problems of selection of women into the labor market and an insufficient or heterogeneous non-parental child care supply, which are ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2019,
(SOEPpapers 1059)
| Katharina Heisig, Larissa Zierow
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Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2005,
(IZA DP No. 1696)
| Axel Heitmueller, Kostas Mavromaras