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Sector Surcharges for Temporary Agency Workers in Germany: A Way Out of the Low-Wage Sector?

Sector-specific surcharge collective labor agreements between the bargaining partner in the staffing industry allow for a reduction of wage gaps between agency workers and permanent staff in case of long-term job assignments to user companies. Stepwise surcharges up to 50% after a surcharge-free period between four and six weeks gradually close the wage gap for temporary agency workers in nine industries. ...

American and German Mothers´ Child Care Choice - Does Policy Matter?

Improvements and Future Challenges for the Research Infrastructure in the Field of “Preschool Education”

Better LATE? Instrumental Variables Estimation of the Returns to Job Mobility during Transition

The Survival of Self-Employed in West Germany: Evidence from Panel Data (Diplomarbeit)

Is the receipt of social assistance transmitted from parents to children? Evidence from German panel data

Family and Politics: Does Parental Unemployment Cause Right-Wing Extremism?

Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Parental unemployment and young people's extreme right-wing party affinity: evidence from panel data

The paper investigates the extent to which parental unemployment affects young people's far right-wing party affinity. Cross-sectional estimates from the German Socio-Economic Panel show a positive relationship between growing up with unemployed parents and support for the extreme right. The paper uses differences in parental unemployment experience during childhood across siblings to investigate ...

The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) as Reference Data Set

This paper discusses how household panels in general - and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) in particular - can serve as reference data for researchers collecting datasets that do not represent the full universe of the population of interest (e.g., through clinical trials, intervention studies, laboratory and behavioural experiments, and cohort studies). We first discuss potential benefits of ...