1. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Vom 'Stasi-Knast' in den 'Goldenen Westen'? Ost-West-Binnenmigration ehemaliger politischer Häftlinge der DDR

    Roughly 200,000 former political prisoners of the German Democratic Republic could so far not be explicitly considered in studies of internal migration between East and West Germany. Using large-scale…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Maternity Leave and Mothers' Long-Term Sickness Absence. Evidence from West Germany

    Exploiting unique German administrative data, we estimate the association between an expansion in maternity leave duration from two to six months in 1979 and mothers’ postbirth long-term sickness absence over a…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Modelling the Time Allocation Effects of Basic Income

    Most of the economic models on basic income account just for pecuniary forms of work, i. e. “time spent making money”, in employment. This restriction is a drawback of these analyses and of the standard economic…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Installment Contracts and Material Breach

    Default rules in contract law grant a buyer the right to terminate a contract over the recurrent delivery in multiple periods (i.e., an installment contract) and cancel future deliveries if, and only if, past…