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Kinderbetreuung, Hausarbeit und Pflege: Sorgearbeit ist weiterhin Frauensache

Frauen verdienen weniger als Männer. Eine neue Studie zeigt: Die Differenz ist nicht über alle Altersgruppen gleich. Welche Phase ist entscheidend?

Chapter 7: Intergenerational persistence of wealth

Evidence from intergenerational correlations and sibling correlations shows that intergenerational persistence in wealth is substantially large and similar in size compared to income persistence. The intergenerational persistence in wealth is partly due to the direct transfers of wealth from parents to children, which makes wealth unique compared to other resources such as education and income. Furthermore, ...

Elucidating the socio-demographics of wildlife tolerance using the example of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in Germany

Abstract As a consequence of increasing human-wildlife encounters, the associated potential for human-wildlife conflict rises. The dependency of conservation management actions on the acceptance or even the participation of people requires modern conservation strategies that take the human dimension of wildlife management into account. In the first place, conservationists therefore need to understand ...

The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival

Entrepreneurs tend to be risk tolerant but is higher risk tolerance always better? In a sample of about 2100 small businesses, we find an inverted U-shaped relation between risk tolerance and profitability. This relationship holds in a simple bilateral regression, and even after controlling for a large set of individual and business characteristics. Apparently, one major transmission goes from risk ...

Career patterns in self-employment and career success

A substantial body of research examines entry into and exit from self-employment. However, little is known about the career patterns of the self-employed, their transitions into and from self-employment and the success associated with different patterns of their careers. To address these issues, we examine the career patterns of individuals with self-employment experience and their relationship to ...

„Man hat mich für verrückt erklärt“

Zusammen freimachen: Der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftler Gert G. Wagner erklärt, warum wir in der neuen Arbeitswelt mehr Feiertage brauchen – und wie sich das ohne große wirtschaftliche Einbußen realisieren lässt.

Arbeitsmarktintegration von Geflüchteten sollte stärker gefördert werden: Interview

Einsamkeit: Ein Begriff für viele Wirklichkeiten

Urban Green Is More than the Absence of City: Structural and Functional Neural Basis of Urbanicity and Green Space in the Neighbourhood of Older Adults

The relationship between urbanization, the brain, and human mental health is subject to intensive debate in the current scientific literature. Particularly, since mood and anxiety disorders as well as schizophrenia are known to be more frequent in urban compared to rural regions. Here, we investigated the association between cerebral signatures, mental health and land use indicators (Urban Fabric and ...

Health implications of housing retrofits: Evidence from a population-wide weatherization program

This study provides the first population-representative quasi-experimental estimates on the impact of housing upgrades on occupant health. We analyze the exceptional period of renovations in East Germany following the German reunification during the 1990s. Triggered by one of the largest governmental loan programs in history, 3.6 million dwellings were renovated, focussing on upgrades to the building ...