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Sound forecasts of car and driver’s license availability are crucial for accurate estimates of future mobility trends and the development of planning strategies. Often these forecasts ignore dynamic trends and spatial influences. Cross-sectional analysis reveals that in areas with good accessibility by alternative modes, many households live with no or only one car even if they can afford a vehicle. ...
In:
Transportation Research Record
(2010), 2156, 120-130
| Max Bohnet, Carsten Gertz
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How do social relationships develop when people fall into poverty or suffer from poverty over a long period of time? While literature regarding poverty and social relationships exists, respective dynamics and causality questions remain unanswered. We use longitudinal German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) data from 1992 to 2013 and analyse contact frequency, the size of social networks, as well as their ...
In:
European Sociological Review
33 (2017), 4, 615-632
| Petra Böhnke, Sebastian Link
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A recurring question in public and scientific debates is whether occupation-specific skills enhance labor market outcomes. Is it beneficial to have an educational degree that is linked to only one or a small set of occupations? To answer this question, we generalize existing models of the effects of (mis)match between education and occupation on labor market outcomes. Specifically, we incorporate the ...
In:
American Sociological Review
84 (2019), 2, 275-307
| Thijs Bol, Christina Ciocca Eller, Herman G. van de Werfhorst, Thomas A. DiPrete
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After childbirth, while parents are delighted at public cash transfers like the German ‘Elterngeld’ (parental leave benefit), the decline in mothers’ earnings capacity is an awkward issue that tends to hover in the background. This paper aims firstly to make a contribution to quantifying West German mothers’ foregone gross earnings that stem from intermittent labor market participation, due to the ...
In:
International Economics and Economic Policy
8 (2011), 4, 363-382
| Christina Boll
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In this paper, we use SOEP data to explore whether parents’ employment has an extra effect on the school achievement of their children, beyond the well‐established effects of education, income and demography. First, we test whether the source of income or parents’ unemployment determine children’s school achievements. Second, we analyze the effect of job prestige and factors of societal engagement ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2015,
(SOEPpapers 735)
| Christina Boll, Malte Hoffmann
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In a simulation-based study with data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we analyze the effects of the newly introduced statutory minimum wage of 8.50 Euro per working hour in Germany on the gender wage gap. In our first scenario where we abstain from employment effects, the pay differential is reduced by 2.5 percentage Points from 19.6 % to 17.1 %, due to a reduction of the sticky ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2015,
(SOEPpapers 766)
| Christina Boll, Hendrik Hüning, Julian Leppin, Johahnnes Puckelwald
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Germany’s occupational and sectoral change towards a knowledge-based economy calls for high returns on education. Nevertheless, female graduates are paid much less than their male counterparts. We find an overall unadjusted gender pay gap among German graduates of 27 %. This corresponds to an approximate wage gap of 32,5 % thereof 20,3 % account for different endowments and 12,2 % for different remunerations ...
Hamburg:
Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut (HWWI),
2013,
(HWWI Policy Paper 138)
| Christina Boll, Julian S. Leppin
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Germany’s occupational and sectoral change towards a knowledge‐based economy calls for high returns to education. Nevertheless, female graduates are paid much less than their male counterparts. We wonder whether overeducation affects sexes differently and whether this might answer for part of the gender pay gap. We decompose total year of schooling in years of over- (O), required (R), and undereducation ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2014,
(SOEPpapers 627)
| Christina Boll, Julian Sebastian Leppin
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Overeducation is an often overlooked facet of untapped human resources. But who is overeducated and why? Relying on SOEP data 1984-2011, we use probit models for estimating the likelihood of entering overeducation and dynamic mixed multinomial logit models with random effects addressing state dependence and unobserved heterogeneity. As further robustness checks we use three specifications of the target ...
In:
Education Economics
24 (2016), 6, 639-662
| Christina Boll, Julian S. Leppin, Klaus Schömann
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Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration will hamper remittance growth. We revisit ...
Bonn:
Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA),
2009,
(IZA DP No. 4534)
| Albert Bollard, David McKenzie, Melanie Morten, Hillel Rapoport