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Based on a field experiment conducted in Germany between October 2014 and October 2015, this article focuses on the disadvantages associated with the presence of a foreign accent in the early hiring process, when applicants call in response to a job advertisement to ask whether the position is still available. We examine whether a foreign accent influences employers’ behaviors via productivity considerations ...
In:
International Migration Review
56 (2022), 2, 562-293
| Miriam Schmaus, Cornelia Kristen
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Divorce rates in Germany have been increasing since the mid-1960s, however, over the last 15 years this trend appear to be slowing. In accordance, female labor force participation accelerated and is known to be correlated with divorce at the macro level. A common notion – also reflected in Becker’s theoretical model of the new home economics and its related independence thesis – is that women’s participation ...
2021,
| Lisa Schmid
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This article depicts the selectivity profiles of first-generation immigrants of multiple origins in 18 European destinations and investigates whether educational selectivity is relevant to their labour market performance. The theoretical account starts from the premise that the relative position individuals occupy in the educational distribution of their origin country represents—frequently unmeasured—characteristics ...
In:
European Sociological Review
38 (2022), 2, 252-268
| Regine Schmidt, Cornelia Kristen, Peter Mühlau
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Social norms are put forward as a prominent explanation for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This paper studies the intergenerational transmission of these norms, examining how they affect subsequent female labour supply decisions, taking into account not only the early socialization of women but also that of their partner. Using large representative panel data sets from West Germany, ...
In:
Socio-Economic Review
20 (2022), 1, 281-322
| Sophia Schmitz, C. Katharina Spieß
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Private household expenditures on child care in centers have significantly risen: from an average of 98 euros per month in 2005 to just under 171 euros in 2015 for a child under three and for children three and older (“Kindergarten”1 age group), from 71 to 97 euros in the period between 1996 and 2015. At the same time, more and more households are completely exempt from paying fees for day care. However, ...
In:
DIW Economic Bulletin
7 (2017), 42, 411-423
| Sophia Schmitz, C. Katharina Spieß, Juliane F. Stahl
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The three chapters of this dissertation provide new insights in modeling and estimating dynamic discrete choice models. Building on previous identification results, several new strategies are presented to estimate important aspects of dynamic decision processes. A focus lies on hyperbolic discounting and biased expectations, two elements that the vast majority of the literature on female labor supply ...
2019,
| Ulrich Schneider
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Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2017,
(DIW Berlin Data Documentation 91)
| Pia S. Schober, C. Katharina Spieß, Juliane F. Stahl, Gundula Zoch, Georg F. Camehl
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2017,
| Juliane F. Stahl
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Creating distributional national accounts (DINA; e.g. Piketty, Saez, and Zucman 2018) requires the allocation of all government expenditure to individuals in order to compute their post-tax, post-transfer income. A sizeable part of government expenditure is in-kind spending, either in the form of individualized transfers (e.g., Medicare and Medicaid) or of collective consumption expenditure (e.g., ...
Kiel, Hamburg:
ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft,
2021,
(Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2021: Climate Economics)
| Holger Stichnoth, Lukas Riedel
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2013,
| Johanna Storck