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This paper investigates the causal effect of education on life satisfaction, exploring effect heterogeneity along employment status. We use exogenous variation in compulsory schooling requirements and the build-up of new, academically more demanding schools, shifting educational attainment along the entire distribution of schooling. Leveraging plant closures and longitudinal information, we also address ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2023,
(SOEPpapers 1192)
| Alexander Bertermann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
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Existing studies on contextual health effects struggle to account for compositional bias, limiting causal interpretation. We use refugee dispersal in Germany as a natural experiment to study the effect of area-level socioeconomic deprivation on mental and physical health, while considering the potential mediating role of neighbourhood characteristics. Refugees subject to dispersal (n = 1466) are selected ...
In:
SSM - Population Health
25 (2024), 2024, 101596
| Louise Biddle, Kayvan Bozorgmehr
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Abstract We analyze the extent to which occupational identity is conducive to worker well-being. Using a unique survey data set of individuals working in the German skilled crafts and trades (2017–2018, n = 757), we use a novel occupational identity measure that captures identity more broadly than just referring to organizational identification and social group membership, but rather comprises personal ...
In:
Kyklos
75 (2022), 2, 184-235
| Martin Binder, Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg
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Generalized trust represents an important regional resource for a firm. It increases human capital, fosters frequent interaction and information sharing, and lowers transaction costs. We provide empirical evidence on the impact of generalized trust among people on firm innovation in German regions. Our observation period ranges from 2004 to 2018. A trust measure is generated by using survey data from ...
In:
Research Policy
52 (2023), 8, 104813
| Thore Sören Bischoff, Ann Hipp, Petrik Runst
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Existing research suggests adverse short-term health effects of economic crises during early life, yet, the long-term health effects for children and adolescents exposed to economic crises are still understudied. We investigated the early-adult health implications of experiencing the post-reunification economic crisis in East Germany in the early 1990s during infancy, childhood and adolescence. Using ...
In:
Comparative Population Studies
48 (2023),
| Lara Bister, Jeroen Spijker, Fanny Janssen, Tobias Vogt
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Resilience describes successful adaptation in the face of adversity, commonly inferred from trajectories of well-being following major life events. Alternatively, resilience was conceptualised as a psychological trait, facilitating adaptation through stable individual characteristics. Both perspectives may relate to individual differences in how stress is regulated in daily life. In the present study, ...
In:
Stress and Health
39 (2023), 1, 59-73
| Elisabeth S. Blanke, Florian Schmiedek, Stefan Siebert, David Richter, Annette Brose
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The self-employed faced strong income losses during the Covid-19 pandemic. Many governments introduced programs to financially support the self-employed during the pandemic, including Germany. The German Ministry for Economic Affairs announced a €50bn emergency-aid program in March 2020, offering one-off lump-sum payments of up to €15,000 to those facing substantial revenue declines. By reassuring ...
In:
Journal of Economic Psychology
93 (2022), 102567
| Joern Block, Alexander S. Kritikos, Maximilian Priem, Caroline Stiel
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In dieser Expertise für den Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung werden Reformen im Steuer- und Transfersystem untersucht, die darauf abzielen, die Erwerbsanreize zu stärken. Dies sind zum einen Reformen in der Grundsicherung und zum anderen Reformen bei der Ehegattenbesteuerung.
Wiesbaden:
Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung,
2023,
(Arbeitspapier 04/2023)
| Maximilian Blömer, Andreas Peichl
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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we analyse the incidence and worker-level consequences of on-call work, a work arrangement that allows employers to adjust their employees’ working times flexibly to the workload. We find that around 4%–5% of the workforce was employed in on-call work between 2014 and 2019. On-call workers are on average less educated, have lower tenure and more ...
In:
German Journal of Human Resource Management
38 (2024), 1, 3-24
| Melanie Borah, Daniel Fackler, Jens Stegmaier, Eva Weigt
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Das Leibniz-Institut für deutsche Sprache (IDS) hat in Kooperation mit dem Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) deutschlandweite Repräsentativerhebungen durchgeführt: die Deutschland-Erhebung 2017 und die neue Erhebung Dialekt und Beruf 2019. Informationen über die Deutschland-Erhebung 2017 finden sich in Folge 1 bis 6 dieser Reihe. In Folge 7 wurde die neue Erhebung Dialekt und Beruf ...
In:
Sprachreport
38 (2022), 4, 30-34
| Astrid Adler, Karolina Hansen