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This qualitative exploratory study sought to understand highly educated Iraqi and Syrian refugees’ perceptions of their learning experiences during economic integration in Luxembourg. This research sought to elucidate how these new migrants learned to integrate in a country with a long tradition of migration but little exposure to Arabic-speaking groups. Further, it sought to explore participants’ ...
2022,
| Anne M. Vesdrevanis
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This study combines data from the HFCS (Household Finance and Consumption Survey) and the social security registry to estimate the present value of public pension entitlements for Austria in the year 2017. The household averages of the present value of pension entitlements and of private net wealth turn out to be similar (both amounting to around €250,000) which is in line with the results for other ...
Vienna:
Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB),
2022,
(Working Paper 238)
| Markus Knell, Reinhard Koman
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Does the culture in which a woman grows up influence her labor market decisions once she has had a child? And to what extent can exposure to a different cultural group in adulthood shape maternal labor supply? To address these questions, we exploit the setting of the German reunification. A state socialist country, East Germany strongly encouraged mothers to participate in the labor market full-time, ...
Munich:
CESifo,
2021,
(CESifo Working Paper No. 9094)
| Barbara Boelmann, Anna Raute, Uta Schönberg
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In light of persistent gender inequality on the labour market, I investigate how social norms affect women’s labour market integration along two dimensions: through reduced labour supply upon the arrival of children and through constraints on geographic mobility. I first look at the persistence and change of gender norms around the time of childbirth. To that end, I explore the setting of the German ...
2022,
| Barbara Boelmann
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This study contributes to the subjective well-being and retirement literature by quantifying life satisfaction before (4) and after retirement (9+) periods asking: Are retirees more satisfied? Fixed-effects and causal instrumental variables (IV) estimates with individual longitudinal data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP, 33 waves) analyze anticipation and adaptation retirement effects of statutory ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2022,
(SOEPpapers 1163)
| Joachim Merz
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Objectives: Physical intimacy is important for communicating affection in romantic relationships. Theoretical and empirical work highlights linkages between physical intimacy, affect, and physiological stress among young and middle-aged adults, but not older adults. We examine physical intimacy and its associations with positive and negative affect and cortisol levels in the daily lives of older couples. ...
In:
The Journals of Gerontology: Series B
77 (2022), 8, 1416-1430
| Karolina Kolodziejczak, Johanna Drewelies, Theresa Pauly, Nilam Ram, Christiane Hoppmann, Denis Gerstorf
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Does growing up with a sister rather than a brother affect personality? In this article, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the effects of siblings’ gender on adults’ personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative surveys covering nine countries (United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Mexico, China, and Indonesia). We investigated ...
In:
Psychological Science
33 (2022), 9, 1574-1587
| Thomas Dudek, Anne A. Brenøe, Jan Feld, Julia M. Rohrer
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This paper deals with the question how workers’ labour market and non-monetary outcomes are impacted by a negative sector-specific labour demand shock. This issue is analysed in a setting of rapid structural change that happened in Eastern Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The sector-specific labour demand shock can be assumed to be exogenous to other worker characteristics as it was ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
241 (2021), 2, 239-285
| Eva Weigt
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The disproportionate exposure of minorities and socio-economically disadvantaged households to environmental pollution is often explained by selective migration or sorting mechanisms. Yet, previous empirical results remain inconclusive. Here, we offer an explanation for the mixed findings by focusing on the selective out-migration stage triggered by environmental pollution. We argue that many income-independent ...
In:
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
48 (2022), 15, 3505-3523
| Tobias Rüttenauer, Henning Best
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We develop a quantitative spatial model with heterogeneous firms and a monopsonistic labour market to derive minimum wages that maximize employment or welfare. Quantifying the model for German micro regions, we find that the German minimum wage, set at 48% of the national mean wage, has increased aggregate worker welfare by about 2.1% at the cost or reducing employment by about 0.3%. The welfare-maximizing ...
London:
Centre fo Economomic Policy Research (CEPR),
2022,
(CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16913)
| Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Duncan Roth, Tobias Seidel