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This paper applies the German Socio-Economic Panel to analyse the effect of within household income comparison on individual life satisfaction. Our estimates indicate, a primary breadwinner wife decreases spousal individual happiness by roughly nine per cent. To state the economic significance, a €70,000 increase in external, peer reference income corresponds to a similar individual happiness decrease. ...
Hamburg:
Department of Economics, Helmut-Schmidt-University,
2021,
(Working Paper No. 191)
| Jan Salland
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This article examines whether reducing care and housework duties and redistributing them within different-sex couples could further enhance gender equality on the labor market in terms of labor market participation for different employment types and actual working hours. Women around the world perform the majority of unpaid care and housework, with a large and persistent gap to men. Most research explains ...
In:
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
77 (2022), February 2022, 100659
| Claire Samtleben, Kai-Uwe Müller
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Im Kontext der Digitalisierung erlebt die Debatte um die Arbeitszeit eine Renaissance (Seifert 2014). Doch ging es in den 1980er-Jahren noch um das Für und Wider einer kollektiven Verkürzung der Arbeitszeit – durch Einführung der 35-Stunden-Woche, die auch als Mittel zur Bekämpfung von Arbeitslosigkeit angesehen wurde –, so geht es heute vielmehr um die flexible Gestaltung der Lage, Dauer und Verteilung ...
Berlin:
2016,
(Werkheft 02: Wie wir arbeiten (wollen))
| Annette Schicke, Oliver Lauenstein
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Based on a field experiment conducted in Germany between October 2014 and October 2015, this article focuses on the disadvantages associated with the presence of a foreign accent in the early hiring process, when applicants call in response to a job advertisement to ask whether the position is still available. We examine whether a foreign accent influences employers’ behaviors via productivity considerations ...
In:
International Migration Review
56 (2022), 2, 562-293
| Miriam Schmaus, Cornelia Kristen
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Divorce rates in Germany have been increasing since the mid-1960s, however, over the last 15 years this trend appear to be slowing. In accordance, female labor force participation accelerated and is known to be correlated with divorce at the macro level. A common notion – also reflected in Becker’s theoretical model of the new home economics and its related independence thesis – is that women’s participation ...
2021,
| Lisa Schmid
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Die Arbeitswelt unterliegt einem permanenten Wandel. Neue Arbeitsweisen, Arbeitsgeräte und Prozesse, aber auch neue Technologien und Geschäftsmodelle beeinflussen in vielfältiger Weise den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt sich auch die Frage, in welchem Umfang Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer von Neuerungen an ihrem Arbeitsplatz betroffen sind, welche Erwartungen sie damit perspektivisch ...
In:
Andrea Hammermann, Timothy Rinke, Jörg Schmidt, Oliver Stettes ,
Forschungsbericht 580: Veränderungs- und Transformationsprozesse am Arbeitsplatz: Kurzanalysen auf Basis von IAB-Betriebspanel, BIBB/BAuA-Erwerbstätigenbefragung und Sozio-oekonomischem Panel
Berlin: Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (BMAS)
89-141
| Jörg Schmidt, Oliver Stettes
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This article depicts the selectivity profiles of first-generation immigrants of multiple origins in 18 European destinations and investigates whether educational selectivity is relevant to their labour market performance. The theoretical account starts from the premise that the relative position individuals occupy in the educational distribution of their origin country represents—frequently unmeasured—characteristics ...
In:
European Sociological Review
38 (2022), 2, 252-268
| Regine Schmidt, Cornelia Kristen, Peter Mühlau
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Social norms are put forward as a prominent explanation for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This paper studies the intergenerational transmission of these norms, examining how they affect subsequent female labour supply decisions, taking into account not only the early socialization of women but also that of their partner. Using large representative panel data sets from West Germany, ...
In:
Socio-Economic Review
20 (2022), 1, 281-322
| Sophia Schmitz, C. Katharina Spieß
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Private household expenditures on child care in centers have significantly risen: from an average of 98 euros per month in 2005 to just under 171 euros in 2015 for a child under three and for children three and older (“Kindergarten”1 age group), from 71 to 97 euros in the period between 1996 and 2015. At the same time, more and more households are completely exempt from paying fees for day care. However, ...
In:
DIW Economic Bulletin
7 (2017), 42, 411-423
| Sophia Schmitz, C. Katharina Spieß, Juliane F. Stahl
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The three chapters of this dissertation provide new insights in modeling and estimating dynamic discrete choice models. Building on previous identification results, several new strategies are presented to estimate important aspects of dynamic decision processes. A focus lies on hyperbolic discounting and biased expectations, two elements that the vast majority of the literature on female labor supply ...
2019,
| Ulrich Schneider