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In this paper, we analyze how the formal recognition of immigrants' foreign occupational qualifications afects their subsequent labor market outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on a novel German data set that links respondents' survey information to their administrative records, allowing us to observe immigrants at monthly intervals before, during and after their application for occupational ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2018,
(SOEPpapers 1017)
| Herbert Brücker, Albrecht Glitz, Adrian Lerche, Agnese Romiti
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We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are characterized by considerable differences in labor market institutions and welfare states. Institutions such as collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply shocks, and, hence, the labor market ...
In:
European Economic Review
66 (2014), February 2014, 205-225
| Herbert Brücker, Andreas Hauptmann, Elke J. Jahn, Richard Upward
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This paper employs a wage-setting approach to analyze the labor market effects of immigration into Germany. The wage-setting framework relies on the assumption that wages tend to decline with the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This enables us to consider labor market rigidities, which are particularly relevant in Europe. We find that the elasticity of the wage-setting curve is particularly ...
Kiel:
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW),
2009,
(Kiel Working Paper No. 1502)
| Herbert Brücker, Elke J. Jahn
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A new representative survey of a total of 4,500 recently arrived refugees to Germany conducted by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), the Research Centre of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF-FZ), and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) has generated an entirely new database for analyzing forced migration and the ...
In:
DIW Economic Bulletin
6 (2016), 48, 541-556
| Herbert Brücker, Nina Rother, Jürgen Schupp, Christian Babka von Gostomski, Axel Böhm, et al.
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In many advanced welfare states, welfare recipients often receive benefits for long periods. This persistence of welfare receipt can be caused by two distinct mechanisms: genuine or spurious state dependence. Knowledge of which of the two mechanisms drives the observed state dependence is important because the policy implications are different. Most of the empirical evidence on state dependence relies ...
In:
Journal for Labour Market Research
52 (2018), 16, 1-21
| Kerstin Bruckmeier, Katrin Hohmeyer, Stefan Schwarz
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We present first estimates of rates of non-take-up for social assistance in Germany after the implementation of major social policy reforms in 2005. The analysis is based on a microsimulation model, which includes a detailed description of the German social assistance programme. Our findings suggest a moderate decrease in non-takeup compared to estimates before the reform. In order to identify the ...
In:
Empirical Economics
43 (2012), 2, 565-580
| Kerstin Bruckmeier, Jürgen Wiemers
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Research on welfare participation often shows significant differences between immigrants and natives that are often attributed to immigrants' higher risk of welfare dependence. We study whether immigrants in Germany also differ from their German counterparts in their take-up behavior conditional on being eligible for welfare benefits. The empirical approach intends (i) to determine eligibility ...
Nürnberg:
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB),
2016,
(IAB-Discussion Paper No. 8/2016)
| Kerstin Bruckmeier, Jürgen Wiemers
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Using a microsimulation model based on representative panel data, we analyze the outcomes of three major means-tested interdependent benefit programs that are available for low-income households in Germany with respect to benefit take-up and labor supply incentives. The results show a distinct overlap between the programs and high rates of non-take-up, indicating that the effectiveness of the programs ...
In:
Comparative Economic Studies
60 (2018), 4, 583-604
| Kerstin Bruckmeier, Jürgen Wiemers
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In 2007 and 2008 the 16 German federal states introduced public smoking bans. The prime objective of the smoking bans was to reduce passive smoking. However, a welcomed side-effect of the smoking bans might have been to reduce active smoking. In this paper we investigate whether such a side-effect occurred. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we investigate with fixed-effects ...
In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch - Proceedings of the 9th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference
131 (2011), 2, 419-429
| Josef Brüderl, Volker Ludwig
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This study investigates the prevalence and extent of altruism by examining the relationship between parents’ and their adult children’s subjective well-being in a data set extracted from the German Socio-Economic Panel. To segregate the share of parents with altruistic preferences from those who are selfish, we estimate a finite mixture regression model. We control for various sources of potential ...
In:
Journal of Population Economics
22 (2009), 4, 1063–1080
| Adrian Bruhin, Rainer Winkelmann