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Stock Market Participation, Work from Home, and Inequality

Stock market participation among working household heads jumped upwards in 2020 – in Germany by about 25%. A major cause is the required use of work from home (WfH). We show this by repeating a benchmark study and adding WfH to the explanatory variables. Moreover, we implement an instrumental variables estimation based on industry-specific levels of WfH-capacity. The transmission channels seem to work ...

Work from Home, Stock Market Participation, and Inequality

Stock market participation among working household heads jumped upwards in the year 2020, in Germany by about 25%. A major cause is the required use of work from home (WfH). We show this by repeating a benchmark study with demanding data requests and adding WfH to the explanatory variables. Moreover, we implement an instrumental variables estimation based on industry-specific levels of WfH-capacity. ...

Frauen beklagen eher emotionale Einsamkeit, Männer sind häufiger sozial einsam

Einsamkeit ist ein gewaltiges Problem – vor allem unter jungen Erwachsenen, wie eine Studie zeigt. Die Forscher sehen einen bedeutenden Unterschied, wie Männer und Frauen betroffen sind. Bestimmte Gesellschaftsgruppen sind deutlich gefährdeter als andere. Und was hilft dagegen?

Zusammen allein. Werden die Menschen in Deutschland wirklich immer einsamer?

Recruiting mid-qualified workers in product-innovating firms: Which personality traits matter?

Change in the work context is an important characteristic of product-innovating firms, and the innovation's profitability often depends on the workers’ adaptive capability to cope with change. Personality traits shape the individual adaptive capability. Nevertheless, the current economic recruitment literature does not discuss personality trait-oriented recruitment in product-innovating firms. ...

Socioeconomic Patterns in the Frequency of Doctor Visits in Germany and Spain in Subjects With and Without Chronic Diseases

The objective of universal health care systems is to achieve equality in the use of health services at the same level of care need. This study evaluates the relationship of socioeconomic position with the frequency of doctor visits in subjects with and without chronic diseases in Germany and Spain. The dependent variables included number of consultations and if a medical consultation occurred. The ...

Unjust Income Inequality Prevails Across 29 Countries

The aim of this visualization is to describe justice evaluations of income inequality from a cross-country perspective for more than 72,000 respondents in 29 countries. The analyses were based on data from two large, cross-country survey programs. The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) asked for an evaluation of the overall income distribution, and the European Social Survey (ESS) asked for ...

Integrierte Weiterbildungsberichterstattung (iWBBe) – Grundlage für evidenzbasierte Steuerung der beruflichen Weiterbildung

Equal waiting times for all? Empirical evidence for elective surgeries in the Austrian public healthcare system

Objectives: This study analyses waiting times for elective surgeries and potential determinants, including supplementary private health insurance, visits in the operating physician's private practice and informal payments for faster treatment. Study design: Retrospective patient questionnaire survey. Methods: The survey was conducted in eleven Austrian rehabilitation centres in 2019. Data was ...

Peter Krause: A Pioneer in Household Panel Surveys and Quality of Life Applications

Born in the south of Germany during the mid-1950s, I grew up in the tensions of parents with a [post] World War II background and the political and social re-orientations within the younger generations. My parents were farmers by passion–starting their family life with solid economic and social foundations, albeit against the fragile political background of WWII. My two eldest siblings were born at ...