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  • Externe referierte Aufsätze

    How Important Is Cultural Background for the Level of Intergenerational Mobility?

    Based on brother correlations in permanent earnings for different groups of second generation immigrants, the findings in this paper indicate that cultural background is not a major determinant of the level of intergenerational economic mobility.

    In: Economics Letters 114 (2012), 3, S. 335-337 | Daniel D. Schnitzlein
  • SOEPpapers 395 / 2011

    Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality: Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US

    Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. In this paper, we suggest a new estimator based on a fixed effects panel model which additionally allows identifying an upper bound. We illustrate our approach by comparing Germany and the US based ...

    2011| Judith Niehues, Andreas Peichl
  • Externe Monographien

    Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform

    Bonn: IZA, 2011, 39 S.
    (Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 5858)
    | Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse
  • Diskussionspapiere 1140 / 2011

    Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform

    How can public pension systems be reformed to ensure fiscal stability in the face of increasing life expectancy? To address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking individuals depend, inter alia, on life expectancy and the design of the public pension system. We calculate that, ...

    2011| Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse
  • SOEPpapers 694 / 2014

    Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment: Evidence for German Sons

    This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers' unemployment is causal for offsprings' employment outcomes. In agreement with most of the small ...

    2014| Miriam Mäder, Steffen Müller, Regina T. Riphahn, Caroline Schwientek
  • SOEPpapers 235 / 2009

    Modelling State Dependence and Feedback Effects between Poverty, Employment and Parental Home Emancipation among European Youth

    Youth is one of the phases in the life-cycle when some of the most decisive life transitions take place. Entering the labour market or leaving parental home are events with important consequences for the economic well-being of young adults. In this paper, the interrelationship between employment, residential emancipation and poverty dynamics is studied for eight European countries by means of an econometric ...

    2009| Sara Ayllón
  • Externe Monographien

    Can Child Care Policy Encourage Employment and Fertility? Evidence from a Structural Model

    Bonn: IZA, 2009, 30 S.
    (Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 4503)
    | Peter Haan, Katharina Wrohlich
  • SOEPpapers 230 / 2009

    Children, Happiness and Taxation

    Empirical analyses on the determinants of life satisfaction often include the impact of the number of children variable among controls without fully discriminating between its two (socio-relational and pecuniary) components. In our empirical analysis on the German Socioeconomic Panel we show that, when introducing household income without correction for the number of members, the pecuniary effect prevails ...

    2009| Leonardo Becchetti, Elena Giachin Ricca, Alessandra Pelloni
  • SOEPpapers 226 / 2009

    Marital Risk, Family Insurance, and Public Policy

    The present paper aims to quantify the growth and welfare consequences of changing family structures in western societies. For this reason we develop a dynamic general equilibrium model with both genders which takes into account changes of the marital status as a stochastic process. Individuals respond to these shocks by adjusting savings and labor supply. Our quantitative results indicate that the ...

    2009| Hans Fehr, Manuel Kallweit, Fabian Kindermann
  • SOEPpapers 665 / 2014

    Teenage Pregnancies and Birth in Germany: Patterns and Developments

    We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) and from the German Mikrozensus. Following the international literature we derive hypotheses on the patterns of teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with teenage age and education, with the income ...

    2014| Kamila Cygan-Rehm, Regina T. Riphahn
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