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This research note uses two German datasets – the large-scale German Socioeconomic Panel and unique data from own student questionnaires – to analyse the relationship between risk aversion and the choice for public sector employment. Main results are (1) more risk-averse individuals sort into public sector employment, (2) the impact of career-specific and unemployment risk attitudes is larger than ...
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German Economic Review
12 (2011), 1, 85–99
| Christian Pfeifer
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This research note analyzes differences in the number of absent working days and doctor visits and in their cyclicality between private sector, public sector and self-employed workers. For this purpose, I used large-scale German survey data for the years 1995 to 2007 to estimate random effects negative binomial (count data) models. The main findings are as follows. (i) Public sector workers have on ...
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Health Economics
22 (2013), 3, 366-370
| Christian Pfeifer
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This empirical research note uses a large-scale household panel survey for Germany to assess the consumption values of partners and friends. For this purpose, reported individual life satisfaction (as proxy for utility) is regressed on being in a partnership, on the number of friends, on the net household income, and on other covariates. The results of pooled and fixed effects regressions indicate ...
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Economics Bulletin
33 (2013), 4, 3131-3142
| Christian Pfeifer
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This empirical research note uses large-scale German survey data in order to analyse the determinants of fair wage perceptions. The probability to perceive the own wage as fair increases significantly with earned wages and is larger if a works council exists. Moreover, works councils and performance evaluations have a significant moderating effect on the link between the size of earned wages and fair ...
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Applied Economics Letters
21 (2014), 1, 47-50
| Christian Pfeifer
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The author uses large-scale German survey data for the years 2009, 2011 and 2013 in order to analyze the nexus between the individual perception of being unfairly paid and measures for quantity and quality of sleep, namely, hours of sleep during workweek and during weekend, happiness with sleep, and sleep disorders diagnosed by a doctor. Main findings of the regression analysis are that workers, who ...
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Schmollers Jahrbuch
135 (2015), 4, 413-428
| Christian Pfeifer
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The author analyses the nexus between unfair wage perceptions of workers and the frequency of the negative emotion of anger. For this purpose, German household panel data for the years 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013 are used. Angry feelings in the last four weeks have occurred significantly more frequently for workers who perceive their wage as unfair, whereas the own absolute hourly wage is not significantly ...
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Bulletin of Economic Research
69 (2017), 2, 124-137
| Christian Pfeifer
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The author uses six years of large-scale panel survey data for Germany to analyse the nexus between commuting distance from the place of residence to the workplace and quantity of sleep. Pooled and individual fixed-effects regressions indicate that workers with longer commuting distance sleep significantly less per night during the workweek, but not less during the weekend. A one kilometer longer commuting ...
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Bulletin of Economic Research
70 (2018), 1, 97-102
| Christian Pfeifer
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We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized ordered probit models to estimate the effect of participation in sport activities on secondary school degrees ...
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Economics of Education Review
29 (2010), 1, 94-103
| Christian Pfeifer, Thomas Cornelißen
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Individual preferences with respect to risk taking play an important role in financial economic behaviour and hence in financial markets. Using German microdata, we argue that individual religiosity accounts for differences in individual's risk preferences and private financial behaviour. First, we find that adherents of the two main Christian religions in Germany (Protestants and Catholics) are ...
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Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
69 (2017), August 2017, 99-107
| Christian Pfeifer, Anja Köbrich León
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The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1992 to 2013. Additionally, the East-West gap and its trend are separately analyzed for men and women as well as for four birth cohorts. The results indicate that reported life satisfaction is on average significantly lower ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
236 (2016), 2, 217-239
| Christian Pfeifer, Inna Petrunyk