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Chances are high that not both partners in dual-earner couples stay in employment after long-distance moves, because jobs are distributed heterogeneously in space. Previous research shows that women are more likely to leave employment than men. I extend this literature by adding evidence from Germany and by comparing the effects of moves in Britain, West and East Germany with data from the BHPS and ...
In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch
133 (2013), 2, 133-142
| Philipp M. Lersch
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Neighbourhoods provide unequal resources and opportunities. Past research has shown that migrants are less able to move to more resourceful neighbourhoods. For Germany, cross-sectional evidence shows that migrants live in worse neighbourhoods on average, but no longitudinal analysis of changes in neighbourhood quality after residential mobility has been conducted. The present paper closes this gap ...
In:
Urban Studies
50 (2013), 5, 1011-1029
| Philipp M. Lersch
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Wiesbaden:
Springer VS,
2014,
| Philipp M. Lersch
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Economic wealth is mostly assumed to be a household-level resource that is pooled by spouses in married couples. Using comprehensive data on the individual wealth of both spouses in married couples from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (N = 13,623 individuals), the author tests this assumption. To this end, the associations between individuals' wealth and their spouses' wealth with individuals' ...
In:
Journal of Marriage and Family
79 (2017), 5, 1211-1223
| Philipp M. Lersch
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This study examines the association between marriage and economic wealth of women and men. Going beyond previous research that focused on household wealth, I examine personal wealth, which allows identifying gender disparities in the association between marriage and wealth. Using unique data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (2002, 2007, and 2012), I apply random-effects and fixed-effects ...
In:
Demography
54 (2017), 3, 961-983
| Philipp M. Lersch
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This study examines the association between sibship size and wealth in adulthood. The study draws on resource dilution theory and additionally discusses potentially wealth-enhancing consequences of having siblings. Data from the German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP, N = 3502 individuals) are used to estimate multilevel regression models adjusted for concurrent parental wealth and other important ...
In:
European Journal of Population
35 (2019), 5, 959-986
| Philipp M. Lersch
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AbstractThe finding that homeowners own more non-housing wealth than tenants is well known. We examine whether the higher financial wealth of owners can be partly explained with increases in saving when becoming a homeowner in two distinct institutional contexts. Using longitudinal data for the UK (British Household Panel Survey) and Germany (Socio-Economic Panel Study), we find that homeowners save ...
In:
Housing Studies
33 (2018), 8, 1175-1206
| Philipp M. Lersch, Caroline Dewilde
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Heidelberg:
Physika,
1998,
| Michael Lechner
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The effects of continuous off-the-job training (OFT) for East Germans after unification are analyzed in terms of their earnings and employment probabilities. Using the potential outcome approach to causality as general framework, different matching procedures are suggested for the estimation. They allow for permanent and transitory shocks that influence OFT participation and labor market outcomes. ...
In:
Journal of Business Economic Statistics
17 (1999), 1, 74-90
| Michael Lechner
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The paper studies the returns from enterprise-related continuous vocational training on individual earnings, unemployment probabilities, and other labour market indicators in East Germany after unification. It attempts to solve the intrinsic identification problem of such evaluation problems nonparametrically by using restrictions "produced" by unification as well as by using very informative ...
In:
Annals of Economics and Statistics / Annales d'Économie et de Statistique
(1999), 55/56, 97-128
| Michael Lechner