Julia Bredtmann

Zusammenfassung: In der bestehenden Literatur werden langfristig positive Effekte von Maßnahmen der beruflichen Weiterbildung auf verschiedene Arbeitsmarktindikatoren beschrieben. Unklar ist bislang jedoch, inwiefern die Förderung der beruflichen Weiterbildung zur Arbeitsmarktintegration von Geflüchteten beitragen kann. Julia Bredtmann und Lisa Sofie Höckel untersuchen daher anhand der Sondersituation der Fluchtmigration seit 2015 mit Hilfe administrativer Daten und einer Propensity-Score-Methode die kurz- und mittelfristigen Effekte von Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen auf die Arbeitsmarktintegration von Geflüchteten. Es zeigt sich, dass sich die Teilnahme an einer Weiterbildungsmaßnahme positiv auf die Beschäftigungswahrscheinlichkeit und die Höhe des erzielten Lohns auswirkt. Dabei variieren die Effekte für verschiedene Personengruppen, beispielsweise in Bezug auf das Geschlecht sowie das Alter der Geflüchteten.

Using rich administrative and longitudinal survey data for Denmark, we investigate sibling correlations in educational outcomes, which serve as a broad measure of the importance of family and community background. We find sibling correlations of up to 0.38, suggesting that more than a third of the variation in educational achievement can be explained by family background. Our results further reveal that parents’ socio‐economic background can account for a large part of the sibling correlation. Other family characteristics such as family structure, social problems and parents’ educational preferences only contribute to explaining sibling similarities at lower levels of the educational distribution.

Based on unique microdata from five Sub-Saharan African countries that contain comprehensive information on both migrants and their households at the origin country, we investigate the effect of migrants’ education on their remittance behaviour. Our results reveal that migrants’ education has no impact on the likelihood of sending remittances, but a positive effect on the amount of money sent, conditional on remitting. The latter effect holds for internal migrants and migrants in non-OECD countries, while it vanishes for migrants in OECD destination countries once characteristics of the origin household are controlled for.

This article investigates the responsiveness of women’s labor supply to their husband’s job loss—the so-called added worker effect. The authors contribute to the literature by taking an explicit internationally comparative perspective in analyzing the variation of the added worker effect across welfare regimes. Using longitudinal data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) survey covering 28 European countries from 2004 to 2013, they find evidence of an added worker effect, which, however, varies over both the business cycle and the different welfare regimes in Europe. The latter result might be explained, in part, by differences in the design of the unemployment benefit system across countries, which create different incentives for the labor supply of wives of unemployed men.

Using the German Time Use Surveys 1991/92 and 2001/02, this paper analyses the interactions between the time‐use decisions of partners within one household. Thereby, an interdependent model of the partners' times allocated to paid and unpaid work that allows for simultaneity and endogeneity of the time allocation decisions of the spouses is applied. When including both weekdays and weekend days in the analysis, a complementary relationship between the partner's time allocations is found. When restricting the analysis to weekdays, however, men's time dedicated to paid and unpaid work is unaffected by their wives' time‐use decisions.