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A Guaranteed Income for Europe's Children?

Job satisfaction and quits

Long work hours of mothers and fathers are linked to increased risk for overweight and obesity among preschool children: longitudinal evidence from Germany

Background Most existing studies on maternal employment and childhood overweight/obesity are from the USA. They are predominantly cross-sectional and show a consistent linear association between the two. Less is known about the joint impact of fathers’ and mothers’ work hours on childhood overweight and obesity.Objectives To examine the impact of maternal and paternal work hours on overweight/obesity ...

Fathers’ Commute to Work and Children’s Social and Emotional Well-Being in Germany

Using the German Socio-Economic Panel study, we addressed the main question: Is fathers’ commute to work associated with increases in child social and emotional well-being as measured in Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaires? If so, would this association be mediated by reduced time spent with children or moderated by change in family income due to commuting? The findings show that fathers’ daily ...

Long-Term Effectiveness of a Stress Management Intervention at Work: a 9-Year Follow-Up Study Based on a Randomized Wait-List Controlled Trial in Male Managers

Objective: Short- and medium- term effectiveness (up to 3 years) of individual level stress management interventions (SMI) in the workplace were demonstrated, yet long-term effectiveness remains unexplored. We therefore aimed to address this research gap. Methods: 94 male middle managers participated in a randomized wait-list controlled trial between 2006 and 2008, and in a post-trial-follow-up survey ...

A Continuous Labour Supply Model in Microsimulation: A Life-Cycle Modelling Approach with Heterogeneity and Uncertainty Extension

This paper advances a structural inter-temporal model of labour supply that is able to simulate the dynamics of labour supply in a continuous setting and to circumvent two main drawbacks of most of the existing models. The first limitation is the inability to incorporate individual heterogeneity as every agent is sharing the same parameters of the utility function. The second one is the strong assumption ...

Male-Female Wage Differentials, Labor Force Attachment and Human-Capital Accumulation in Germany

Where Have All the Workers Gone? Employment Termination in East Germany after Unification

Essays on the Economics of the Labor Market

The present dissertation aims at contributing to the understanding of central labor market mechanisms by analyzing open questions on the determinants of firms' labor demand, unemployed individuals' job search behavior and the state's role in shaping peoples' trust and, thereby, affecting labor market outcomes and economic performance.

The Economic Costs of Mass Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany

Based on official records from the former East German Ministry for State Security, we quantify the long-term costs of state surveillance on social capital and economic performance. Using county-level variation in the spy density in the 1980s, we exploit discontinuities at state borders to show that higher levels of Stasi surveillance led to lower levels of social capital as measured by interpersonal ...