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We study the local evolution of female labour supply and cultural norms in West Germany in reaction to the sudden presence of East Germans who migrated to the West after reunification. These migrants grew up with high rates of maternal employment, whereas West German families mostly followed the traditional breadwinner-housewife model. We find that West German women increase their labour supply and ...
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The Economic Journal
134 (2024), 659, 1146–1172
| Jonas Jessen, Sophia Schmitz, Felix Weinhardt
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The COVID-19 pandemic and related closures of day care centres and schools significantly increased the amount of care work done by parents. There has been much speculation over whether the pandemic increased or decreased gender equality in parental care work. Based on representative data for Germany from spring 2020 and winter 2021 we present an empirical analysis that shows that although gender inequality ...
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German Economic Review
23 (2022), 4, 641-667
| Jonas Jessen, C. Katharina Spiess, Sevrin Waights, Katharina Wrohlich
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Decades of evidence point to the vital role of parents in shaping their children’s partisan leanings, particularly concerning mainstream parties. And yet the contours of intergenerational influence remain quite obscured. For instance, scholars disagree on when social learning in the household occurs (childhood vs adolescence) and about who is the dominant socializer (mother vs father). Data from a ...
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Political Studies
72 (2024), 2, 634-651
| Jennifer Fitzgerald, Pavel Bacovsky
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Intuition is a central element of entrepreneurial decision-making. We conceptually replicate a published study by using new representative data from 1961 adults and the widely used Cognitive Reflection Test, which assesses the ability to avoid intuitive decisions and to switch to an analytical process. We extend the analysis by exploring occupational sorting versus environmental influence as mechanisms, ...
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Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
48 (2024), 4, 1082-1109
| Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neyse
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Abstract International trade in services has increased significantly in recent decades, mainly due to innovations in information and communication technology. This development has also increased the importance of service offshoring, as companies spread their production processes across several countries. This paper examines the intensity of offshoring of specific tasks of occupations, which in turn ...
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The World Economy
47 (2024), 4, 1615-1641
| Michael Frenkel, Ngoc Tuyet Ngo
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The literature on the effects of incentives in survey research is vast and covers a diversity of survey modes. The mode of probability-based online panels, however, is still young and so is research into how to best recruit sample units into the panel. This paper sheds light on the effectiveness of a specific type of incentive in this context: a monetary incentive that is paid conditionally upon panel ...
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Social Science Computer Review
41 (2023), 2, 370-389
| Sabine Friedel, Barbara Felderer, Ulrich Krieger, Carina Cornesse, Annelies G. Blom
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Relying on the epidemiological approach, we show that culture is a significant driver of household saving behavior. Second-generation immigrants from countries that put strong emphasis on thrift or wealth accumulation tend to save more in Germany. We confirm these results in data from the United Kingdom. By linking parents to their children, we show that these two cultural components affect the saving ...
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Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
52 (2020), 5, 1035-1070
| Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Paolo Massella, Hannah Paule-Paludkiewicz
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Risk attitudes play a pivotal role to understand economic decision-making, and several measures are used to elicit them in the lab and survey them in the field. We provide a literature review on the most commonly used risk elicitation methods by Holt and Laury (HL) and the Investment Game (IG) by Gneezy and Potters and the General Risk Question (GRQ) utilized in the German Socioeconomic Panel. Based ...
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Risk Management and Insurance Review
26 (2023), 3, 367-392
| Christine Gaertner, Petra Steinorth
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How did the large asylum-seeker inflow to Germany in 2015 affect concerns about immigration? Using individual-level panel data for the years 2012–2018 and a policy that allocates asylum-seekers to districts, I identify the effect of exposure to asylum-seekers. In line with the contact hypothesis, living in a high refugee migration district reduced concerns about immigration by 3 pp. Alternatively, ...
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European Journal of Political Economy
78 (2023), 102323
| Katia Gallegos Torres
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Income inequality and poverty risks receive a lot of attention in public debates and current research. To make income comparable across different types of households, applying the “(modified) OECD scale” – an equivalence scale with fixed weights for each household type – has become a quasi-standard in research. Instead, we derive a base-dependent equivalence scale allowing for scale weights that vary ...
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The Journal of Economic Inequality
19 (2021), 4, 855-873
| Jan Marvin Garbuszus, Notburga Ott, Sebastian Pehle, Martin Werding