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Temporary Workers - Their Employment Conditions and Prospects

Changes in the patterns of poverty duration in Germany: relieve of poverty or new poverty traps?

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study explores how the duration of poverty and its determinants evolved in Germany between the early 1990s and the late 2000s. To do this, we split the overall period of interest into a set of six-year long rolling windows and use them to document changes in the incidence and length of poverty episodes over time. A joint modeling of poverty and ...

The Role of Empathy and Life Satisfaction in Internet and Smartphone Use Disorder

Recent studies have yielded initial evidence for an association between Internet Use Disorder (IUD), empathy, and life satisfaction. In the present study we sought to replicate these previous findings, and then to extend this research by also examining the relationship between empathy, life satisfaction, and the related phenomenon of Smartphone Use Disorder (SUD). The present study included independent ...

Combining Panel Data and Macro Information: An Application to the Estimation of a Participation Model

A Life Cycle Labour Supply Model with Taxes Estimated on German Panel Data: The Case of Parallel Preferences

Work and Welfare of Single Mothers in Germany

Estimation of Labour Supply Functions using Panel Data: A Survey

Does Expanding Regional Train Service Reduce Air Pollution?

We assess how regional rail service affects air pollution in Germany, where rail service is procured in auctions or negotiations. We argue that the procurement mode is plausibly exogenous, and show that auctions deliver stronger rail service growth than negotiations. Instrumenting rail service growth with procurement mode, we find that increasing rail service by 10% reduces carbon monoxide and nitrogen ...

Family background and the decision to provide for old age: a siblings approach

The Riester pensions in Germany provide helpful evidence to better understand the determinants of and the barriers to the demand for old-age provision products. The paper argues that families are of key importance in the decision making process to buy such a private pension. Families do not only shape the way we make our financial decisions they can also be a source for cost-effective and reliable ...

The economic returns of bonding and bridging social capital for immigrant men in Germany

Using longitudinal data, this paper analyses the effect of different forms of social capital on the likelihood of employment and the occupational status of first generation immigrant men in Germany. This allows me to examine to what extent social capital of the bonding and the bridging types yield different returns. The study considers how contacts with natives, co-ethnic ties and family-based social ...