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Objective: This study assesses whether and how changes in family policies are associated with first and second births in Finland, Germany and the United Kingdom, and whether these associations differ by women's education. Background: Family policies are expected to impact the direct and indirect costs of childbearing by providing resources that influence the monetary and non-monetary costs of ...
In:
Jfr-Journal of Family Research
36 (2024), 305-326
| Sehar Ezdi, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, Heta Pöyliö, Jani Erola
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Migrant households in Germany hold significantly less wealth than native households, with disparities varying by origin and generation. Using SOEP data (2012, 2017), this study quantifies gaps across the wealth distribution and examines income, saving rates, and portfolio composition. Migrants from low- and middle-income countries exhibit the largest gaps, with persistent disadvantages in the upper ...
In:
The Journal of Economic Inequality
(online first) (2025),
| Rudolf Faininger, Svenja Flechtner
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Child penalties in labour market outcomes are well-documented: after childbirth, mothers’ employment and earnings drop persistently compared to fathers. Beyond gender norms, a potential driver could be the loss in labour market skills due to mothers’ longer employment interruptions. This paper estimates child penalties in adult cognitive skills by adapting the pseudo-panel approach to a single cross-section ...
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2024,
(IZA DP No. 17379)
| Jonas Jessen, Lavinia Kinne, Michele Battisti
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How much does society value redistribution? The common method to derive inverse-optimum welfare weights is by inverting an optimal-tax model. Our alternative imposes fewer restrictions on labor supply and enables comparisons across household types. We use a structural labor supply model to calculate the marginal value of public funds for various small tax reductions, directly linked to welfare weights. ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2024,
(IZA Discussion Paper No. 17566)
| Robin Jessen, Niklas Isaak
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Whether or not immigrants are well integrated into the labor market in Germany has been the focus of an ongoing public discussion. While there has been a lot of research on the career paths of first-generation immigrants, official statistics do not offer a lot of insight when it comes to the one of the offspring of the first generation. This paper seeks to address this issue for the second generation ...
Berlin:
2012,
| Chris Jürschik
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We propose a structural model of participation to sporty activities and labour supply. We jointly model employment, wage and sporting activity using a dynamic model. We estimate for the period going from 1994 to 1999 a dynamic multivariate model with random effects using the German Socioeconomic panel (GSOEP). The error terms of the equations of the model can be correlated. Each of these error terms ...
In:
Revue d'économie politique
132 (2022), 1, 49-78
| Thierry Kamionka
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Empirically identifying the causal effect of social capital on immigrants’ economic prospects is a challenging task due to the non-random residential sorting of immigrants into locations with greater opportunities for prior or co-ethnic connections. Our study addresses this selection-bias issue by using a natural-experimental dataset of refugees and other immigrants who were exogenously allocated to ...
In:
Comparative Migration Studies
10 (2022), 1, 15
| Klarita Gërxhani, Yuliya Kosyakova
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We use the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984-2008 to identify the sources of this apparent „polarization“ among unskilled men. We start by confirming that earnings inequality among low-skilled men has grown substantially (measured as earnings over a given three-year period in order to minimize effects of short-term fluctuations). Drawing on economic and sociological theories, we then discuss potential ...
Berlin:
2012,
| Johannes Giesecke, Jan Paul Heisig, Heike Solga
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has profoundly transformed numerous facets of both private and professional life. Understanding how people evaluate AI is crucial for predicting its future adoption and addressing potential barriers. However, existing instruments measuring attitudes towards AI often focus on specific technologies or cross-domain evaluations, while domain-specific measurement instruments ...
In:
Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans
3 (2025), March 2025, 100106
| Timo Gnambs, Jan-Philipp Stein, Markus Appel, Florian Griese, Sabine Zinn
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Food banks are returning to the spotlight as their use increases due to the coronavirus pandemic and the influx of Ukrainian refugees to Germany. The current discussion is focused on whether the food banks can handle the increasing number of users as well as the financial and organizational challenges that come with them. Until now, however, no robust, empirical data on food bank use has been available. ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
39/2022 (2022), 239-244
| Markus M. Grabka, Jürgen Schupp