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The Impact of Taxes and Transfer Payments on the Distribution of Income: a Parametric Comparison

Tackling multiple choices: a joint determination of transitions out of education and into the labour market across the European Union

Job mobility and wage mobility at the beginning of the working career: a comparative view across Europe

Aspekte der gynäkologischen Betreuung und Versorgung von türkischen Migrantinnen in Deutschland (Habilitationsschrift)

Local Social Capital and Geographical Mobility: A Theory

Local Social Capital and Geographical Mobility: Some Empirics and a Conjecture on the Nature of European Unemployment

The Sensitivity of Family Income to Changes in Family Structure and Job Change in the United States and Germany

Family Change, Employment Transitions, and the Welfare State: A Comparison of Household Income Dynamics in the U.S. and Germany

Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany: patterns and developments

We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel and from the German Mikrozensus. Following the international literature we derive hypotheses on the patterns of teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant to the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with teenage age and education, with the income of the ...

Do working hours affect health? Evidence from statutory workweek regulations in Germany

This study estimates the causal effect of working hours on health. We deal with the endogeneity of working hours through instrumental variables techniques. In particular, we exploit exogenous variation in working hours from statutory workweek regulations in the German public sector as an instrumental variable. Using panel data, we run two-stage least squares regressions controlling for individual-specific ...