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Research on the consequences of intermarriage is almost exclusively looking at immigrants’ labour market outcomes, with little attention given to non-economic indicators. Drawing from set-point theory and taking on a dynamic approach, the authors examine whether having a different- versus a same-origin partner is subject to a selection on life satisfaction, or associated with a greater short-term improvement ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
22 (2021), 3, 1413-1440
| Gina Potarca, Laura Bernardi
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Previous research on informal spousal caregiving has documented a reduced life satisfaction among caregivers, but it has rarely considered the dynamics over time, the mechanisms that drive these effects, and different types of transitions out of caregiving. This study aims to fill this gap by focusing on spousal caregivers’ life satisfaction before, during, and after episodes of caregiving. We apply ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
22 (2021), 3, 1481-1516
| Regina Gerlich, Tobias Wolbring
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We estimate wage premiums (male, union member and public sector) in West Germany using post penalized expectile regression. The estimation relies on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2010-2017. We use a double robust LASSO as penalization technique, which allows us to deal with potential omitted variable bias and to conduct expectile-specific model selection. In addition, we enrich our study ...
Erlangen-Nuremberg:
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Labor and Socio-Economic Research Center,
2020,
(LASER Discussion Papers - Paper No. 120)
| Giovanni Bonaccolto, Marina Töpfer
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This study investigates the effect of smallholders’ personality traits on their land rental market decisions. We develop a conceptual framework and show that these internal factors could affect smallholders’ land rental market participation beyond institutional and socio-demographic factors. Our empirical analysis is based on a survey of 2119 rural households collected in the North China Plain. We ...
In:
China Economic Review
62 (2020), August 2020, 101510
| Chen Qian, Fan Li, Gerrit Antonides, Nico Heerink, Xianlei Ma, Xiande Li
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Introduction: Older adults show higher interindividual performance variability during the learning of new motor sequences than younger adults. It is largely unknown what factors contribute to this variability. This study aimed to, first, characterize age differences in motor sequence learning and, second, examine influencing factors for interindividual performance differences. Method: 30 young adults ...
In:
Psychological Research
85 (2021), 4, 1488–1502
| Katharina Zwingmann, Lena Hübner, Willem B. Verwey, Jonathan S. Barnhoorn, Ben Godde, Claudia Voelcker-Rehage
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This study documents that worker-level variation in tasks has played a key role in the widening of the German Native-Foreign Wage Gap. I find idiosyncratic differences account for up to 34 per cent of the wage gap. Importantly, natives specialize in high-paying interactive activities not only between, but also within occupations. In contrast, foreign workers specialize in low-paying manual activities. ...
In:
Labour
36 (2022), 2, 167-195
| Eduard Storm
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This paper is the first to empirically study the relationship between spatial distributions of labor market inspections and noncompliance with Germany's minimum-wage law. Combining novel administrative data with large-scale longitudinal survey data, we document that the inspection probability is higher in regions with higher noncompliance. This implies risk-based allocation of the inspection efforts ...
In:
FinanzArchiv
77 (2021), 1, 1-58
| Mattis Beckmannshagen, Alexandra Fedorets
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Background: Status quo (SQ) bias is defined as patient´s tendency to continue taking a previously selected but inferior therapeutic option. Objective: To assess the presence of SQ bias and its associated factors in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). Methods: A multicenter, non-interventional study involving 211 patients with RRMS was conducted. Participants answered questions ...
In:
Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders
45 (2020), 102354
| Gustavo Saposnik, Javier Sotoca, Ángel P. Sempere, Antonio Candeliere-Merlicco, Paola Díaz-Abós, Philippe N. Tobler, María Terzaghi, Jorge Maurino
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We present new empirical evidence on the distribution of earnings, income and wealth among entrepreneurs in Germany. We document that both earnings and income are more concentrated among entrepreneurs than among workers and describe a large-scale overlapping-generations model that replicates the age-earnings profiles of these two household types. As an application, we compute the equilibrium effects ...
In:
Journal of Macroeconomics
75 (2023), 103488
| Burkhard Heer, Mark M. Trede
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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP, 1994–2017), we investigate how 10-year career sequences, which can be grouped into distinct career patterns, relate to cumulative labor market income. We utilize propensity score matching to compare standard career sequences, consisting of continuous full-time permanent work, to stepping stone career sequences, characterized by initial periods ...
In:
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
69 (2020), 100529
| Sophia Fauser