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Spurious Correlations in Quantile-Based Consumption Spillover Tests

Consumption spillovers are difficult to estimate. Many tests in the literature argue that spillovers cause positive correlations between individual consumption levels and aggregate income quantiles. This paper develops simulation-based procedures for evaluating reduced-form tests for consumption spillovers. I find that the correlation found in prior tests may be spurious, arising from the mechanical ...

Arbeitsbiografien und Strukturwandel „nach dem Boom“: Lebensläufe und Berufserfahrungen britischer, französischer und westdeutscher Industriearbeiter und -arbeiterinnen von 1970 bis 2000

The article compares life courses and work biographies of industrial workers in West Germany, France and Britain during the period of de-industrialization between the mid-1970s and the year 2000. It discusses continuities and changes of specific patterns in the work biographies of male skilled and unskilled workers, of young people entering the shrinking job market, of migrant workers, and of women. ...

SOEP Survey Papers ; 1050 : Series B - Survey Reports (Methodenberichte) / 2021

SOEP-Core – 2020: Report of Survey Methodology and Fieldwork

IW-Studie: Viele Rentner arbeiten nicht aus finanzieller Not

Immer mehr Rentner haben eine Nebentätigkeit. Eine Studie kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass viele von ihnen sehr gut ausgebildet sind und nicht wegen Geldsorgen arbeiten.

Income loss among the self-employed: implications for individual wellbeing and pandemic policy measures

Due to the pandemic-induced economic crisis, self-employed individuals are currently suffering considerable income losses. The self-employed and the members in their households usually form an economic unit. As a consequence, the income cuts not only affect the self-employed themselves but also the rest of their household. We used the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to calculate how much income ...

Should Schools Grade Student Behavior? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Comportment Grade Reforms

Numerous countries require teachers to assign comportment grades rating students’ social and work behavior in the classroom. However, the impact of such policies on student outcomes remains unknown. We exploit the staggered introduction of comportment grading across German federal states to estimate its causal effect on students’ school-to-work transitions as well as cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. ...

Feel dragged out: a recovery perspective in the relationship between emotional exhaustion and entrepreneurial exit

Purpose: This study investigates the relationship between emotional exhaustion and entrepreneurial exit, particularly how this relationship might be invigorated by two critical psychological factors, namely cognitive well-being (CWB) and affective well-being (AWB). Design/methodology/approach: Binary logistic regression analysis was employed on a longitudinal data set of 997 self-employed individuals ...

Die soziale Lage erwerbstätiger Rentner

Eine steigende Anzahl von Rentenbeziehern ist zusätzlich noch oder erneut erwerbstätig. Mitunter wird daraus geschlossen, dass das Rentenniveau in vielen Fällen zu niedrig sei, um daraus den Lebensunterhalt zu bestreiten. Eine Analyse der sozialen Lage erwerbstätiger Rentner zeigt aber, dass diese in der Regel sogar überdurchschnittliche Einkommen haben.

Politische Präferenzen: Wie Zugewanderte die Wahl mitentscheiden könnten

In Deutschland leben 21 Millionen Menschen mit Einwanderungsgeschichte. Eine Studie zeigt, wie sehr sie sich bestimmten Parteien verbunden fühlen. Die lassen den Forschern zufolge viel Potenzial ungenutzt.

Happiness adaptation to high income: Evidence from German panel data

This paper is the first to use national representative panel data to demonstrate that individuals do not adapt to high income in the long run: after five or more years, the life satisfaction of high-income people is still higher than that of the average population. Using entropy balancing (EB) matching and Lasso variable selection to reweight the control group yields similar results.