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Immun gegen Corona

Immun gegen Corona

Der Beitrag erschien in der Fuldaer Zeitung. Martin Gornig sieht die Bauindustrie als Stützpfeiler der coronageplagten deutschen Wirtschaft. Ohne höhere Baukapazitäten rückten die Ampel-Ziele jedoch in weite Ferne. Die Bauwirtschaft in Deutschland hat der Krise auch im zweiten Corona-Jahr getrotzt, obwohl die Branche nicht ganz ohne Blessuren durch die Pandemie kommt. Liefereng-pässe, Materialmangel ...

Sovereign Bonds since Waterloo

This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. It compiles a new database of 266,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency government bonds traded in London and New York between 1815 (the Battle of Waterloo) and 2016, covering up to 91 countries. The main insight is that, as in equity markets, the returns on external sovereign bonds have been sufficiently high to compensate for risk. Real ...

Erinnerungen an Joachim R. Frick: Zum 10. Todestag eines ehemaligen Kollegen

Am 16. Dezember 2021 jährte sich der zehnte Todestag unseres sehr geschätzten Kollegen Joachim R. Frick. Joachim war gut 20 Jahre Mitarbeiter am SOEP. Markus Grabka erinnert sich: Ich habe ihn im Dezember 1992 bei meinem Bewerbungsgespräch als studentische Hilfskraft in Berlin Dahlem zum ersten Mal erlebt. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt bestand die SOEP-Abteilung aus einer Handvoll von Mitarbeitern, ...

Remembering Joachim R. Frick on the tenth anniversary of his death

December 16, 2021, marked ten years since Joachim R. Frick’s death. Joachim was part of the SOEP for over 20 years and a deeply valued colleague. Markus Grabka remembers: I first met Joachim in December of 1992. I was being interviewed for a student assistant position at the DIW in Dahlem. At that time, the SOEP had just a handful of staff members, so everyone in the department was there ...

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A Domain-Differentiated Approach to Everyday Emotion Regulation from Adolescence to Older Age

Flexibly using different emotion-regulation (ER) strategies in different situational contexts, such as domains, has been argued to promote effective emotion regulation. Additionally, emotion regulation processes may change with age as narrowing time horizons shift emotion-regulation preferences. The purpose of the present study was to examine the occurrence and effectiveness of flexible emotion regulation ...

Foreign Accents in the Early Hiring Process: A Field Experiment on Accent-Related Ethnic Discrimination in Germany

Based on a field experiment conducted in Germany between October 2014 and October 2015, this article focuses on the disadvantages associated with the presence of a foreign accent in the early hiring process, when applicants call in response to a job advertisement to ask whether the position is still available. We examine whether a foreign accent influences employers’ behaviors via productivity considerations ...

The Education of Recently Arrived Refugees in Germany: Conditions, Processes, and Outcomes

Around the world, the number of refugees is at a record high. Although most forciblydisplaced persons seek refuge within their home country or in a neighboringstate (UNHCR, 2020), a large number of refugees have reached Europe in recentyears, and many of them have settled in Germany (Eurostat, 2020).1As many refugees were children and adolescents when they arrived in Germany(Bundesamt für Migration ...

Marriage, the Risk of Overeducation, and Selection into Both: Evidence from Germany

Two competing theories of social support and role specialization have been invoked to explain how marital status affects labour market outcomes. Whereas evidence of beneficial labour market outcomes among married men and employed married women favours a social support perspective, evidence of married women’s reduced labour market participation corresponds to a role specialization perspective. We make ...