This study sheds light on the return-to-job of female employees after first birth based on exceptional longitudinal data from personnel records of a large German company. Our empirical analysis investigates a…
Although the educational attainment gap between boys and girls has been reduced in the last years, boys still outperform girls in mathematics starting from the end of primary school. This has lasting…
This paper investigates the impact of an individual’s level of locus of control, a concept commonly used in social psychology (Rotter, 1966), on educational choices and wages. We establish that more internal…
Our paper analyzes the impact of the introduction of a home care allowance for children between 13 and 36 months of age and explicitly takes the expansion of publicly funded day care into account. We use the…
Basic income schemes are discussed among all political parties in Germany. A basic income is a specific form of a guaranteed minimum income for every citizen. Distributed unconditionally it could simplify the…
