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The evolution of the gender wage gap

Bowling alone or bowling at all? The effect of unemployment on social participation

This article examines the impact of unemployment on social participation using German panel data. We find negative and lasting effects for public social activities but also a retreat of individuals into private life. Issues of selection and endogeneity are addressed by using plant closures as exogenous entries into unemployment. Social norms and labour market prospects are shown to be relevant for ...

Unemployment as a Social Norm Revisited: Novel Evidence from German Counties

Unemployed individuals may regain identity utility through coping strategies, which however vary with age and gender. Using highly detailed German county level data, we test whether the social norm effect of unemployment is age-dependent. The wellbeing differential between the unemployed and the employed is found to increase with the local unemployment rate at the beginning of the working life but ...

The Effect of Unemployment on Social Participation of Spouses: Evidence from Plant Closures in Germany

This paper estimates the effect of an individual’s unemployment on the level of social participation of their spouse. Using German panel data, it is shown that unemployment has a strong negative effect on public social activities of both directly and indirectly affected spouses. Private social activities of either spouse, however, are only found to increase, if the indirectly affected spouse is not ...

Stability and Change in Affective Experience Across the Adult Life Span: Analyses With a National Sample From Germany

Using cross-sectional and longitudinal data from a national sample spanning the adult life span, age differences in anger and sadness were explored. The cross-sectional and longitudinal findings consistently suggest that the frequency of anger increases during young adulthood, but then shows a steady decrease until old age. By contrast, the frequency of sadness remains stable over most of adulthood ...

Fiscal Impacts of Immigration on the American and German Welfare States

Immigrant integration: comparative evicence from the United States and Germany

In the comparative literature on immigrant integration, Germany and the United States are frequently placed in distinct and opposing regime categories. Using cross-sectional data from the 1997 German Socio-Economic Panel and the 1997 Panel of Income Dynamics, we compare the process of integration of four generational cohorts of Turks in Germany and Mexicans in the United States, focusing on markets, ...

A rental-equivalence index for owner-occupied housing in West Germany 1985 to 1998

Case study Germany: Global competition, uncertainty and the transition to adulthood (Chapter 3)

Temporary Agency Workers—Their Employment Conditions and Prospects