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This study investigates how the availability and expansion of childcare services for children aged under 3 years relate to the subjective wellbeing of German mothers and fathers. It extends previous studies by examining in more detail the relationship between day-care availability and use, maternal employment and parental subjective wellbeing during early childhood in a country with expanding childcare ...
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Journal of European Social Policy
27 (2017), 5, S. 433-446
| Pia S. Schober, Christian Schmitt
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Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic and societal repercussions, questions concerning the subjective experience of unemployment have recently attracted increasing attention. Although existing studies have documented the detrimental effects of unemployment for cognitive (life satisfaction) and affective well-being, studies directly ...
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Journal of Happiness Studies
18 (2017), 4, S. 1231-1254
| Christian von Scheve, Friederike Esche, Jürgen Schupp
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Using the Mannheim innovation panel, we investigate whether family firms have higher financial need and how this affects both innovation input and innovation outcomes such as firm or market novelties, or process innovation. Applying the CDM framework, we find that family firms are more likely to have a latent financial need for innovation, which means that they have innovation ideas which they have ...
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Small Business Economics
48 (2017), 4, S. 931-951
| Dorothea Schäfer, Andreas Stephan, Jennifer Solórzano Mosquera
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Fast-and-frugal trees (FFTs) are simple algorithms that facilitate efficient and accurate decisions based on limited information. But despite their successful use in many applied domains, there is no widely available toolbox that allows anyone to easily create, visualize, and evaluate FFTs. We fill this gap by introducing the R package FFTrees. In this paper, we explain how FFTs work, introduce a new ...
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Judgment and Decision Making
12 (2017), 4, S. 344-368
| Nathaniel D. Phillips, Hansjörg Neth, Jan K. Woike, Wolfgang Gaissmaier
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The last 20 years have seen a substantial increase in enrolment in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in several European countries. The expansion of ECEC services inevitably requires new staff. There is however a tension between a rapid growth of services via the creation of low-paid, low-qualified jobs and the aspiration, voiced unanimously by policy makers, to improve the qualification and ...
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Journal of European Social Policy
27 (2017), 4, S. 320-331
| Ludovica Gambaro
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Theories about neighbours’ influence on children's education that are based on social capital, cohesion, and disorganisation stress the importance of neighbourhood stability. This is because stability is regarded as necessary for building strong ties and friendships, which in turn affect educational outcomes. However, amongst the vast number of studies on the effect of neighbours on a child's education, ...
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Journal of the European Economic Association
15 (2017), 4, S. 746-783
| Stepen Gibbons, Olmo Silva, Felix Weinhardt
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Marginal employment (ME) is one of the largest forms of atypical employment in Germany. We analyse whether ME has a ‘stepping stone’ function for unemployed individuals, i.e., whether ME increases the subsequent probability of regular employment. We find differing treatment effects by unemployment duration. According to our results, ME increases the likelihood of regular employment within a 3-year ...
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Labour
31 (2017), 4, S. 394-414
| Torsten Lietzmann, Paul Schmelzer, Jürgen Wiemers
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How do people respond to terrorist events? Exploiting the timing of the 2010 wave of the annual ‘Society Opinion Media’ survey in Sweden, we study the causal effect of the Stockholm bombings of 11 December 2010 on Swedish public opinion. Our main contribution is that we draw explicit attention to the link between terrorist events and individuals’ social trust. While we identify a strong effect on individuals’ ...
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Public Choice
173 (2017), 3-4, S. 289-305
| Benny Geys, Salmai Qari
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Euro area countries and Japan are confronted with similar challenges. Potential output is on a declining trend in the Euro area, and the decrease started well before the financial crisis. In Japan, low-output growth is a striking feature since many years, despite the unconventional monetary policy stance and numerous fiscal stimulus programs provided by the government. According to a growth accounting ...
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Asia Europe Journal
15 (2017), 4, S. 363-375
| Christian Dreger
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We study the effectiveness of building energy codes, taking a long-run perspective. The focus is on regulation’s impact on energy demand in both high- and low-quality residences, in other words, the diffusion and the entry of “green” buildings in the housing market. We develop a measure for regulation intensity and apply this to a panel-error-correction regression model for energy requirements of a ...
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Land Economics
93 (2017), 4, S. 585-607
| Makram El-Shagi, Claus Michelsen, Sebastian Rosenschon