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Even three decades after the end of communism in Eastern Europe, there are still observable differences in financial risk and time preferences compared to Western Europe. Using data from two large-scale surveys – one including European countries (INTRA) and one for West and East Germany (SOEP) – we show that the causes of these differences are not the same: While differences in loss aversion and patience ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
202 (2022), 785-829
| Johannes Schaewitz, Mei Wang, Marc Oliver Rieger
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Background: This study investigates individual and regional determinants of worries about inadequate medical treatment in case of a COVID-19 infection, an important indicator of mental wellbeing in pandemic times as it potentially affects the compliance with mitigation measures and the willingness to get vaccinated. The analyses shed light on the following questions: Are there social inequalities in ...
In:
BMC Public Health
22 (2022), 1761
| Alina Schmitz, Claudius Garten, Simon Kühne, Martina Brandt
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We use quasi-experimental expansion of publicly funded childcare slots for children under the age of three from Germany and exploit regional variations of this large-scale expansion to account for endogenous and selective fertility decisions. To account for left and right censoring, we implement this quasi-experimental framework into the setting of the semiparametric Cox hazard model. By using spatial ...
In:
Bulletin of Economic Research
75 (2023), 2, 476-507
| Eric Schuss, Mohammed Azaouagh
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Die vergangenen Jahrzehnte haben für Senioren Fortschritte gebracht. Sie sind fitter und zufriedener. Selbst die Corona-Pandemie hat ihr Wohlbefinden kaum beeinträchtigt
In:
Welt, 2022-07-21
(2022), 9
| Dorothea Siems
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In Deutschland ist der Anteil der Armen in der letzten Dekade deutlich angestiegen. Vor diesem Hintergrund befasst sich der diesjährige Verteilungsbericht mit dem Thema Einkommensarmut und untersucht, welche Auswirkungen sie auf die gesellschaftliche Teilhabe der Betroffenen hat. Auf Basis des SOEP sowie der HBS-Lebenslagenbefragung zeigt sich, dass Armut in Deutschland die gesellschaftliche Teilhabe ...
Düsseldorf:
Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut (WSI) in der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung,
2022,
(WSI Report 79)
| Dorothee Spannagel, Aline Zucco
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Einkommensarmut betrifft einen immer größer werdenden Teil der deutschen Bevölkerung. Aber was bedeutet es konkret, in Deutschland arm zu sein? Unter welchen Bedingungen leben Arme und wie bewerten sie ihre Situation? Diesen Fragen geht der diesjährige WSI-Verteilungsbericht nach. Die Befunde zeichnen ein düsteres Bild: Armut geht weit über Einkommensarmut hinaus – sie schränkt gesellschaftliche Teilhabe ...
In:
WSI Mitteilungen
75 (2022), 6, 465-473
| Dorothee Spannagel, Aline Zucco
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This paper provides causal evidence on the effect of in-utero exposure to air pollution on noncognitive ability in childhood. I use the meteorological phenomenon of thermal inversions to address the endogeneity in exposure to particulate matter and data from a representative household survey in Germany to measure noncognitive abilities. I find that an increase in particulate matter concentration by ...
2022,
(Working Paper)
| Beate Thies
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In this dissertation, I study the role of labor supply in macroeconomic fluctations and the movement of employment in response to these fluctuations. The first chapter is a theoretical and empirical study of the role of firm-specific labor supply in amplifying business cycles. The second chapter focuses on measuring the aggregate labor supply elasticity at the extensive margin, using a novel survey ...
2022,
| Preston Mui
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Pre-vaccine SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence data from Germany are scarce outside hotspots, and socioeconomic disparities remained largely unexplored. The nationwide representative RKI-SOEP study (15,122 participants, 18–99 years, 54% women) investigated seroprevalence and testing in a supplementary wave of the Socio-Economic-Panel conducted predominantly in October–November 2020. Self-collected oral-nasal ...
In:
Scientific Reports
12 (2022), 1, 19492
| Hannelore Neuhauser, Angelika Schaffrath Rosario, Hans Butschalowsky, Sebastian Haller, Jens Hoebel, Janine Michel, Andreas Nitsche, Christina Poethko-Müller, Franziska Prütz, Martin Schlaud, Hans W. Steinhauer, Hendrik Wilking, Lothar H. Wieler, Lars Schaade, Stefan Liebig, Antje Gößwald, Markus M. Grabka, Sabine Zinn, Thomas Ziese
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Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could depend on the type of immigrant and numerous factors. This study examines the determinants of skill downgrading ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2022,
(IZA DP No. 15426)
| Plamen Nikolov, Leila Salarpour G., David Titus