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This study investigates how the availability and expansion of childcare services for children aged under 3 years relate to the subjective wellbeing of German mothers and fathers. It extends previous studies by examining in more detail the relationship between day-care availability and use, maternal employment and parental subjective wellbeing during early childhood in a country with expanding childcare ...
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Journal of European Social Policy
27 (2017), 5, S. 433-446
| Pia S. Schober, Christian Schmitt
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In an uncertain world, decisions by market participants are based on expectations. Therefore, sentiment indicators reflecting expectations have a proven track record at predicting economic variables. However, survey respondents largely perceive the world through media reports. Here, we want to make use of that. We employ a rich dataset provided by Media Tenor International, based on sentiment analysis ...
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Journal of Forecasting
36 (2017), 5, S. 483-496
| Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Dirk Ulbricht, Tobias Thomas
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How do people respond to terrorist events? Exploiting the timing of the 2010 wave of the annual ‘Society Opinion Media’ survey in Sweden, we study the causal effect of the Stockholm bombings of 11 December 2010 on Swedish public opinion. Our main contribution is that we draw explicit attention to the link between terrorist events and individuals’ social trust. While we identify a strong effect on individuals’ ...
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Public Choice
173 (2017), 3-4, S. 289-305
| Benny Geys, Salmai Qari
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Euro area countries and Japan are confronted with similar challenges. Potential output is on a declining trend in the Euro area, and the decrease started well before the financial crisis. In Japan, low-output growth is a striking feature since many years, despite the unconventional monetary policy stance and numerous fiscal stimulus programs provided by the government. According to a growth accounting ...
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Asia Europe Journal
15 (2017), 4, S. 363-375
| Christian Dreger
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Marginal employment (ME) is one of the largest forms of atypical employment in Germany. We analyse whether ME has a ‘stepping stone’ function for unemployed individuals, i.e., whether ME increases the subsequent probability of regular employment. We find differing treatment effects by unemployment duration. According to our results, ME increases the likelihood of regular employment within a 3-year ...
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Labour
31 (2017), 4, S. 394-414
| Torsten Lietzmann, Paul Schmelzer, Jürgen Wiemers
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The last 20 years have seen a substantial increase in enrolment in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in several European countries. The expansion of ECEC services inevitably requires new staff. There is however a tension between a rapid growth of services via the creation of low-paid, low-qualified jobs and the aspiration, voiced unanimously by policy makers, to improve the qualification and ...
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Journal of European Social Policy
27 (2017), 4, S. 320-331
| Ludovica Gambaro
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Theories about neighbours’ influence on children's education that are based on social capital, cohesion, and disorganisation stress the importance of neighbourhood stability. This is because stability is regarded as necessary for building strong ties and friendships, which in turn affect educational outcomes. However, amongst the vast number of studies on the effect of neighbours on a child's education, ...
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Journal of the European Economic Association
15 (2017), 4, S. 746-783
| Stepen Gibbons, Olmo Silva, Felix Weinhardt
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Fast-and-frugal trees (FFTs) are simple algorithms that facilitate efficient and accurate decisions based on limited information. But despite their successful use in many applied domains, there is no widely available toolbox that allows anyone to easily create, visualize, and evaluate FFTs. We fill this gap by introducing the R package FFTrees. In this paper, we explain how FFTs work, introduce a new ...
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Judgment and Decision Making
12 (2017), 4, S. 344-368
| Nathaniel D. Phillips, Hansjörg Neth, Jan K. Woike, Wolfgang Gaissmaier
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Background: Epidemiologic evidence for work stress as a risk factor for coronary heart disease is mostly based on a single measure of stressful work known as job strain, a combination of high demands and low job control. We examined whether a complementary stress measure that assesses an imbalance between efforts spent at work and rewards received predicted coronary heart disease. Methods: This multi-cohort ...
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Epidemiology
28 (2017), 4, S. 619-626
| Nico Dragano, Johannes Siegrist, Solja T. Nyberg, Thorsten Lunau, Eleonor I. Fransson, Lars Alfredsson, Jakob B Bjorner, Marianne Borritz, Hermann Burr, Raimund Erbel, Göran Fahlén, Marcel Goldberg, Mark Hamer, Katriina Heikkilä, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Anders Knutsson, Ida E. H. Madsen, Martin L. Nielsen, Maria Nordin, Tuula Oksanen, Jan H. Pejtersen, Jaana Pentti, Reiner Rugulies, Paula Salo, Jürgen Schupp, Archana Singh-Manoux, Andrew Steptoe, Töres Theorell, Jussi Vahtera, Peter J.M. Westerholm, Hugo Westerlund, Marianna Virtanen, Marie Zins, G. David Batty, Mika Kivimäki
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Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic and societal repercussions, questions concerning the subjective experience of unemployment have recently attracted increasing attention. Although existing studies have documented the detrimental effects of unemployment for cognitive (life satisfaction) and affective well-being, studies directly ...
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Journal of Happiness Studies
18 (2017), 4, S. 1231-1254
| Christian von Scheve, Friederike Esche, Jürgen Schupp