We investigate whether workers adjust hours worked in response to windfall gains using data from the European Household Panel. The results suggest that a rise in unearned income has a negative (although small) effect on working hours. In particular, after receiving a windfall gain, individuals are more likely to drop out of the labour force and the effects become larger as the size of windfall increases. ...
We reconsider the relationship between income and health taking a distributional perspective rather than one centered on conditional expectation. Using structured additive distributional regression, we find that the association between income and health is larger than generally estimated because aspects of the conditional health distribution that go beyond the expectation imply worse outcomes for those ...
Freiwilliges Engagement ist an Voraussetzungen geknüpft: Die bisherige Forschung zum Engagement hat gezeigt, dass ein hoher sozioökonomischer Status in der Regel förderlich für die Ausübung einer freiwilligen Tätigkeit ist (siehe beispielsweise Gensicke 2015; Schmidt 2014). Personen aus höheren Schichten sind deutlich häufiger und auch dauerhafter engagiert als Personen aus niedrigeren sozialen Schichten ...