Prof. Regina T. Riphahn, Ph.D.

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Biographical Sketch

Research Areas

Publications

Complete CV: English / Deutsch

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  Biographical Sketch

Regina T. Riphahn studied economics, business administration, and sociology at the Universities of Cologne, Sussex (U.K.), Bonn, Tennessee, and North Carolina. She received an M.B.A. at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and a Ph.D. in economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1995 for her dissertation on "Disability Retirement Among German Men." She joined the University of Munich's economics department in May 1995 and in March 1999 completed her post-doctoral habilitation on the dynamics of social assistance dependence in Germany. Between October 2000 and September 2001 she taught at the University of Mainz (Germany) as an Associate Professor of Economic Policy. From October 2001 through March 2005 she headed the statistics and econometrics group at the economics department of the University of Basel (Switzerland). Since April 2005 she holds the chair for Statistics and Empirical Economics at the University of Erlangen (Germany). Her research interests are in applied microeconometrics, personnel, labor, social policy, population, and health economics.

Regina T. Riphahn is a fellow of IZA (Institut Zukunft der Arbeit, Bonn), and a research professor of DIW Berlin. She has published in journals such as the Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Development Economics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Human Resources, and the Journal of Population Economics. Regina T. Riphahn was awarded several scholarships for studies in England, Spain, Chile, and the United States. She received a Fulbright grant (1988-1989), the University of North Carolina economics departments' Lurcy Fellowship, and in 2000 a prize for the best paper written with the GSOEP data since 1984. She worked at the Central Bank of Chile (1989), The World Bank (1990), and as a research assistant at the Carolina Population Center (1991-1995). She served in the Swiss council of economic advisors, as a member of the council of the European Society of Labour Economists (EALE, 2003-2009), as treasurer of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE,2002-2008) and is currently council member of the German Economic Association. She headed the scientific council of the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (2005-2007), is the coordinator of the Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics, member of the scientific advisory council at the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and of the Wissenschaftsrat.

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  Research Areas

3.1:Applied Microeconometrics, Education, Personnel, Labor Economics, and Social Policy.

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  Publications

Refereed Publications

1. Determinanten des Rentenzugangs - Eine Analyse altersspezifischer Verrentungsraten (Determinants of Retirement Entry - An Analysis of Age-specific Retirement Rates), 1997, Review of Economics (Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftswissenschaften) 48(1), 133-147, (with Peter Schmidt).

2. Disability Retirement and Unemployment - Substitute Pathways for Labor Force Exit?, 1997, Applied Economics 29, 551-561.

3. The Determinants of Child Mortality in the Philippines: Estimation of a Structural Model, 1997, Journal of Development Economics, 56(2) 281-305, (with David K. Guilkey).

4. Immigrant Participation in the German Welfare Program, 1998, Finanzarchiv 55(2),163-185.

5. Income and Employment Effects of Health Shocks - A Test Case for the German Welfare State, 1999, Journal of Population Economics 12(3), 363-389.

6. Labor Force Transitions of Older Married Couples in Germany, 1999, Labour Economics 6(2), 229-251 (with David M. Blau).

7. Disability Retirement Among German Men in the 1980s, 1999, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 52(4), 628-647.

8. Geringfügige Beschäftigung: Arbeitsmarktwirkungen und Reformoptionen, 1999, Review of Economics (Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftswissenschaften) 50(3), 213-229 (with Clemens Fuest and Bernd Huber).

9. Explaining Applications to the U.S. Disability Program. A Semiparametric Approach, 1999, Journal of Human Resources 35(1), 82-115 (with Brent Kreider).

10. Fertility Assimilation of Immigrants: Evidence from Count Data Models, 2000, Journal of Population Economics 13(2), 241-261 (with Jochen Mayer).

11. Is the Local Business Tax a User Tax? An Empirical Investigation for Germany, 2001, Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik) 221(1),13-41 (with Clemens Fuest).

12. Rational Poverty or Poor Rationality? The Takeup of Social Assistance Benefits, 2001, Review of Income and Wealth 47(3), 379-398. [ pdf-download ]

13. Behavioral Effects of Probation Periods: An Analysis of Worker Absenteeism, 2001, Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik) 221(2), 179-201 (with Anja Thalmaier). [ pdf-download ]

14. Residential Location and Youth Unemployment: The Economic Geography of School-To-Work Transitions, 2002, Journal of Population Economics 15(1), 115-135. [ pdf-download ]

15. Employment Effects of Payroll Taxes - An Empirical Test for Germany, 2002, Applied Economics 34, 865-876 (with Thomas K. Bauer). [ pdf-download ]

16. Incentive Effects in the Demand for Health Care: A Bivariate Panel Count Data Estimation, 2003, Journal of Applied Econometrics 18, 387-405 (with Achim Wambach and Andreas Million). [ pdf-download ]

17. Cohort Effects in the Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in Germany: An Analysis of Census Data, 2003, Journal of Population Economics 16(4), 711-737. [ pdf-download ]

18. Employment Protection and Effort Among German Employees, 2004, Economics Letters 85(3), 353-357. [ pdf-download ]

19. Immigrant Participation in Social Assistance Programs: Evidence from German Guestworkers, 2004, Applied Economics Quarterly 50(4), 329-362. [ pdf-download ]

20. Temporary Contracts and Employee Effort, 2005, Labour Economics 12(3), 281-299 (with Axel Engellandt). [ pdf-download ]

21. Item Non-response on Income and Wealth Questions, 2005, Empirical Economics 30(2), 521-538 (with Oliver Serfling). [ pdf-download ]

22. The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort. A Comparison of Absenteeism During and After Probation, 2005, Journal of the European Economic Association 3(1), 120-143 (with Andrea Ichino).[ pdf-download ]

23. Are there Diverging Time Trends in the Educational Attainment of Nationals and Second Generation Immigrants? [former title: Dissimilation? The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants], 2005 Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik) 225(3), 325-346. [ pdf-download ]

24. Survey item nonresponse and its treatment, 2006, Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv 90(1), 213-228 (with Susanne Rässler). [ pdf-download ]

25. Timing of school tracking as a determinant of intergenerational transmission of education, 2006, Economics Letters 91(1), 90-97 (with Philipp Bauer). [ pdf-download ]

26. Education and its intergenerational transmission: country of origin-specific - evidence for natives and immigrants from Switzerland, 2006, Portuguese Economic Journal 5(2), 89-110 (with Philipp Bauer). [ pdf-download ]

27. Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment: Evidence from Switzerland on Natives and Second Generation Immigrants, 2007, Journal of Population Economics 20(1), 121-148 (with Philipp Bauer). [ pdf-download ]

28. Seniority in Germany: New Evidence on Returns to Tenure for Male Full-time Workers, 2008, Zeitschrift für Arbeitsmarktforschung (Journal for Labour Market Research) 41(2-3),139-156 (with Robert Orlowski). [ pdf-download ]

29. Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment in Germany - The Last Five Decades, 2009, Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik) 229(1), 36-60 (with Guido Heineck). [ pdf-download ]

30. Age at School Entry and Intergenerational Educational Mobility, 2009, Economics Letters 103(2), 87-90 (with Philipp Bauer). [ pdf-download ]

31. The East German Wage Structure after Transition, 2009, Economics of Transition 17(4), 629-659 (with Robert Orlowski). [ pdf-download ]

32. Incentive Effects of Bonus Payments: Evidence from a Multinational Company, 2008, IZA Discussion Paper No. 1229, forthcoming: Industrial and Labor Relations Review (with Axel Engellandt). [ pdf-download ]

33. Female labor supply and parental leave benefits. The causal effect of paying higher transfers for a shorter period of time, 2009, IZA Discussion Paper No. 3982, forthcoming: Applied Economics Letters (with Annette Bergemann). [ pdf-download ]

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Other Publications

1. Invaliditätsrentenzugang und Arbeitsmarkt (Disability Retirement and the Labor Market), 1996, in: V. Steiner and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.), Arbeitsmarkt und soziale Sicherung - Empirische Analyse und Reformansätze, ZEW Wirtschaftsanalysen Band 6, Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden, 93-108.

2. Older Workers' Responses to Health Shocks, 1997, Vierteljahreshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 66(1), 71-79.

3. Labor Demand, Unemployment, and the Cost of Social Insurance Schemes in Germany, 1998, in: S.W. Black (ed.), Globalization, Technological Change, and Labor Markets , Kluwer Academic Publishers, 213-229 (with Thomas K. Bauer).

4. Absenteeism and Employment Probation - A Panel Study for Germany, 1999, Vierteljahreshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68(2), 230-236 (with Anja Thalmaier).

5. Die Mortalitätskrise in Ostdeutschland und ihre Reflektion in der Todesursachenstatistik, 1999, Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungswissenschaft 24(3), 329-363.

6. The Mortality Crisis in East Germany, 2000, in: G.A. Cornia (ed.) The Mortality Crisis in Transitional Economies, Oxford University Press, Oxford-New York, 227-252 (with Klaus F. Zimmermann).

7. Employment Policy in Transition: Lessons of German Integration for the Labour Market , edited with Dennis J. Snower and Klaus F. Zimmermann, 2000, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg-New York.

8. Die Bedeutung des Arbeitsmarktes für die Sozialhilfedichte: Eine Panelanalyse mit Regionaldaten, 2001, in: Winfried Schmähl (ed.), Wechselwirkungen zwischen Arbeitsmarkt und soziale Sicherung I, Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik Band 285, Duncker & Humblot, 9-42.

9. Neue Evidenz zum Schulerfolg von Zuwanderern der zweiten Generation in Deutschland, 2002, Vierteljahreshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 71(2), 230-248 (with Oliver Serfling).

10. Die Bruttoeinkommensverteilung in Deutschland 1984-1999 und die wachsende Ungleichheit unter ausländischen Erwerbstätigen, 2003, W. Schmähl (ed.), Wechselwirkungen zwischen Arbeitsmarkt und Sozialer Sicherung II, Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Band 294, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 135-174. [ pdf-download ]

11. Heterogeneity in Item-Nonresponse on Income and Wealth Questions, 2003, Schmollers Jahrbuch. Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften (Journal of Applied Social Sciences) 123(1), 95-108 (with Oliver Serfling).

12. Book review, 2003: Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, J.P., Wolf, C. (eds.): Advances in Cross-National Comparison. A European Working Book for Demographic and Socio-Economic Variables. Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York et al., 413 S. Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv 87(3), 348-349.

13. Die schweizerische Bildungspolitik unter Effizienz- und Wachstumsgesichtspunkten, 2003, in: Kommission für Konjunkturfragen, Jahresbericht 2003, Supplement to Volkswirtschaft - Magazin für Wirtschaftspolitik, 49-55 (a contribution to the Annual Report of the Swiss Council of Economic Advisors).

14. Discussion of: Bernd Fitzenberger und Alexandra Spitz, Die Anatomie des Berufswechsels: Eine empirische Bestandsaufnahme auf Basis der BIBB / IAB Daten 1998 / 1999, in: W. Franz, H.J. Ramser und M. Stadler, 2004, Bildung - Band 33 Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Seminar Ottobeuren, Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen, 61-66.

15. Absenteeism and Employment Protection: 3 Case Studies, 2004, Swedish Economic Policy Review 11(1), 95-114 (with Andrea Ichino). [ pdf-download ]

16. Book review, 2003: Ortlieb, Renate: Betrieblicher Krankenstand als personalpolitische Arena. Eine Längsschnittanalyse. Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag 2002, 227 S. forthcoming in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft.

17. Introduction: Item nonresponse and data quality, Allgemeinen Statistisches Archiv, 89(1), 2005, 3-5.

18. Erwerbstätigkeit im Alter und institutionelle Anreize, 2005, in: Kommission für Konjunkturfragen, Jahresbericht 2005, Supplement to Volkswirtschaft - Magazin für Wirtschaftspolitik, 49-55 (a contribution to the Annual Report of the Swiss Council of Economic Advisors).

19. Bildungsrenditen und Ausbildungsverhalten der Erwerbspersonen, 2006, in: Anders Frick and Aniela Wirz (eds.), Berufsbildungsökonomie: Stand und offene Fragen, Berufsbildungsforschung Schweiz, Band 1, h.e.p. verlag, Bern, Schweiz.

20. Arbeit in der alternden Gesellschaft: Der Arbeitsmarkt für ältere Menschen in der Schweiz, 2006, Zürcher Kantonalbank, Denon Publizistik AG (with George Sheldon).

21. Intergenerationale Bildungs- und Einkommensmobilität in der Schweiz - ein Vergleich zwischen Schweizern und Migranten, 2007, Volkswirtschaft - Magazin für Wirtschaftspolitik 80(7/8), 18-21 (with Philipp C. Bauer).

22. Im Osten nichts Neues - Lohnstrukturen knapp 20 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall, 2009, ifo Dresden berichtet 3/2009, 24-27 (with Robert Orlowski).

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Working Papers

1. Improvements in the Family Planning Service Environment in Tanzania: A Report Based on the 1991 and 1994 DHS Service Availability Modules, 1994, Evaluation Project Working Paper, Carolina Population Center (with Sylvester Ngallaba, Phil Bardsley, David K. Guilkey).

2. Disability Retirement Among German Men in the 1980s, 1995, unpublished dissertation , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

3. The Impact of Family Planning Programs on Contraceptive Use in Tanzania: An Explanation of Change Between 1991 and 1994, 1996, Evaluation Project Working Paper, Carolina Population Center (with Said Aboud, Gustavo Angeles, Phil Bardsley, Amenuve Bekui, Albina Chuwa, David Guilkey, Aldegunda Komba, Sylvester Ngallaba, Irenius Ruyobya, Peter Riwa).

4. Fertility Assimilation of Immigrants: A Varying Coefficient Count Data Model, 1999, SFB 386 Discussion Paper No. 140 (with Jochen Mayer).

5. Why Did Social Assistance Dependence Increase? - The Dynamics of Social Assistance Dependence and Unemployment in Germany, 1999, unpublished Habilitationsschrift, University of Munich.

6. Schaffung von Arbeitsplätzen für Geringqualifizierte. Gutachterliche Stellungnahme im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Arbeit und Sozialordnung, Bonn 1999 (mit Anja Thalmaier und Klaus F. Zimmermann).

7. Die Vermögensverteilung und die Determinanten ihrer Entwicklung. Ein Literaturüberblick, 2002, mimeo (with Alexandra Reichardt).

8. The Enrollment Effect of Secondary School Fees in Post-War Germany, 2008, IZA Discussion Paper No. 1295, LASER Discussion Paper No. 21, revised and resubmitted to Scandinavian Journal of Economics. [ pdf-download ]

9. Population Aging and Continued Education, 2008, IZA Discussion Paper No. 2145 (with Parvati Trübswetter). [ pdf-download ]

10. New Evidence on Financial Incentives and the Timing of Retirement, 2009, BGPE Discussion Paper No. 76 (with Barbara Hanel). [ pdf-download ]

11. New Evidence on the Complementarity of Education and Training, 2008 (with Parvati Trübswetter). [ pdf-download ]

12. The Transition to Tertiary Education and Parental Background over Time, 2008, BGPE Discussion Paper No. 63, revised and resubmitted to Journal of Population Economics (with Florian Schieferdecker). [ pdf-download ]

13. Kosten und Nutzen der Ausbildung an Tertiärbildungsinstitutionen im Vergleich, 2009, LASER Discussion Paper No. 32, revised and resubmitted to Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik (with Martina Eschelbach, Guido Heineck, and Steffen Müller). [ pdf-download ]

14. Kindergarten enrollment and the intergenerational transmission of education, 2009, IZA Discussion Paper No. 4466, submitted (with Philipp C. Bauer). [ pdf-download ]

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