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The Motherhood Penalty in Cross-National Perspective: The Importance of Work-Family Policies and Cultural Attitudes

Mothers’ employment and earnings partly depend on social policies and cultural norms supporting work-family balance. While policies regarding parental leave and childcare may assist families in combining work and care, are these policies related to the economic penalties for motherhood? Using original social policy data with micro data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we examine relationships between ...

Are Relative-Income Effects Constant across the Well-being Distribution?

This paper challenges the common assumption made by economists to date that income comparisons are similarly important in different segments of the subjective well-being (SWB) distribution. The results, based on the 2000-2007 waves of the German SOEP and on a Generalized Ordered Probit for panel data, show that relative income, as measured either by the mean income of the reference group or the individual ...

Risk attitude and wage growth: replicating Shaw (1996)

We replicate Shaw (J Labor Econ 14(4):626–653, 1996) who found that individual wage growth is higher for individuals with greater preference for risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain, and Italy, we find evidence that risk attitudes are relevant but support is mixed at best for the original specifications.

Income comparisons and non-cognitive skills

People gain utility from occupying a higher ranked position in the income distribution of the reference group. This paper investigates whether these gains depend on an individual’s set of non-cognitive skills. Using the 2000-2008 waves of the German Socioeconomic Panel dataset (SOEP), a subjective question on Life Satisfaction, and three different sets of non-cognitive skills indicators, we find significant ...

Bericht der Bundesregierung zur Lebensqualität in Deutschland

Der Bericht der Bundesregierung zur Lebensqualität beschreibt in zwölf Dimensionen und mit 46 Indikatoren die Lebensqualität in Deutschland. Für die Auswahl der Dimensionen und Indikatoren waren die Ergebnisse eines halbjährigen konsultativen Bürgerdialogs maßgeblich. Zudem hat die Bundesregierung Erkenntnisse der Forschung zur Lebensqualität sowie nationale und internationale Referenzprojekte wie ...

Life Situations in Germany: The German Federal Government’s 5th Report on Poverty and Wealth

Welfare Effects of Labour Mobility in Eastern Germany - A Comparison between Benefits from Switching into Self-Employment and Gains from Job Turnover

Migrants in the German Labor Market - Nationality and Gender-Specific Labor Market Opportunities

Media Coverage and Immigration Worries: Econometric Evidence

This paper empirically explores the link between mass media coverage of migration and immigration worries. Using detailed data on media coverage in Germany, we show that the amount of media reports regarding migration issues is positively associated with concerns about immigration among the German population. The association is robust to the inclusion of time-variant individual control variables and ...

The perception of the income tax: Evidence from Germany

The paper explores whether the tax rule defined by the tax law or the perception of the tax system by the single household matters in explaining household behaviour. In particular, Germany applies joint taxation with marital splitting to married couples. However, the couple has the choice between two formulas when paying the tax. In both cases, the perceived marginal tax rate, i.e. the rate which practically ...