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Die Effekte der Migration auf die soziale Sicherung (Dissertation)

Family Gap Structures in Western Nations

A Minimum Wage for Germany - What Should We Expect?

The Timing of Employment Breaks: How Does It Affect Pension Benefits? - Empirical Evidence from Germany

3 Datengewinnung und Datenaufbereitung

Semiparametrische Modelle zur Analyse sozialwissenschaftlicher Verlaufsdaten - Modellkonstruktionen, Schätzverfahren und Eigenschaften (Dissertation)

An Inquiry into the Theory, Causes and Consequences of Monitoring Indicators of Health and Safety at Work

This paper engages in an interdisciplinary survey of the current state of knowledge related to the theory, determinants and consequences of occupational safety and health (OSH). First, it synthesizes the available theoretical frameworks used by economists and psychologists to understand the issues related to the optimal provision of OSH in the labour market. Second, it reviews the academic literature ...

Bitterness in life and attitudes towards immigration

Worries about immigration have played a major role in the rise of extremist parties across Europe, the Brexit referendum, and Trump's presidential campaign. We show that bitter people who feel they have not gotten what they deserve in life worry more about immigration. This relationship holds for respondents with different levels of skills, job security, concerns about crime, the general economic ...

Income, Working Hours, and Happiness

In empirical analyses, the effect of income on happiness tends to be underestimated by ignoring the fact that income has to be earned. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, our analysis confirms this tendency. For men, the underestimation amounts to 25%.

Would You Like to Know What Makes People Happy? An Overview of the Datasets on Subjective Well-Being

This article provides a guide for young economists wishing to conduct well-being research. It describes the different data sources commonly used in the study of people's subjective well-being, as well as provides a brief discussion on the types of well-being measures available within each dataset.