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Vermarktlichung und Globalisierung haben den Profifußball und die Zusammensetzung von Mannschaften fundamental verändert. Vor dem Hintergrund der veränderten Rahmenbedingungen untersucht der Beitrag, in welchem Maße (a) der Marktwert einer Mannschaft, (b) ihre interne Ungleichheit, (c) die kulturelle Diversität eines Teams sowie (d) der Grad der Fluktuation im Team über den sportlichen Erfolg in nationalen ...
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Zeitschrift für Soziologie
43 (2014), 3, S. 231-250
| Jürgen Gerhards, Michael Mutz, Gert G. Wagner
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This paper summarizes the micro-level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed in the period 1992-2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household-level surveys undertaken inKazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan - and of all academic papers published using these datasets. We argue that Central Asia is a fascinating region ...
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Journal of Comparative Economics
42 (2014), 3, S. 819-835
| Tilman Brück, Damir Esenaliev, Antje Kröger, Alma Kudebayeva, Bakhrom Mirkasimov, Susan Steiner
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The current study investigated how night-to-night variations in sleep duration relate to affective well-being the next morning as well as how the relationship varies for people of different ages. Using an Experience Sampling approach, 397 participants aged 12 to 88 years reported their sleep duration and their momentary affect on 9 mornings, on average. Associations between sleep duration during the ...
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Emotion
14(2014), 3, S. 624-628
| Michaela Riediger, Gert G. Wagner, Cornelia Wrzus
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How can public pension systems be reformed to ensure fiscal stability in the face of increasing life expectancy? To address this question, we use micro data to estimate a structural life-cycle model of individuals' employment, retirement and consumption decisions. We calculate that, in the case of Germany, an increase of 3.76 years in the pension age thresholds or a cut of 26.8% in the per-year value ...
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Journal of Econometrics
178 (2014), 3, S. 582-601
| Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse
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We investigate how prenatal economic fluctuations affected birth weight in Argentina during the period from January 2000 to December 2005 and document its procyclicality. We find evidence that the birth weight of children born to low-educated (less than high school) mothers is sensitive to macroeconomic fluctuations during both the first and third trimesters of pregnancy, while those of high-educated ...
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The Review of Economics and Statistics
96 (2014), 3, S. 550-562
| Carlos Bozzoli, Climent Quintana-Domeque
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Der Beitrag widmet sich der Beschreibung interethnischer Freundschaften zwischen Zuwanderern, ihren Nachkommen und der Mehrheitsbevölkerung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Das Augenmerk richtet sich auf die zwischen verschiedenen Migrantengruppen und Generationen bestehenden Unterschiede in den Beziehungsmustern sowie auf die Bedingungen ihrer Entstehung. Die Aufnahme interethnischer Kontakte wird ...
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Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
66 (2014), 3, 445-458
| Diana Schacht, Cornelia Kristen, Ingrid Tucci
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Recent research has repeatedly demonstrated that well-being typically evinces precipitous deterioration close to the end of life. However, the determinants of individual differences in these terminal declines are not well understood. In this study, we examine the role of perceived personal control as a potential buffer against steep terminal declines in well-being. We applied single- and multiphase ...
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Psychology and Aging
29 (2014), 3, S. 612-625
| Denis Gerstorf, Jutta Heckhausen, Nilam Ram, Frank J. Infurna, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
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This paper addresses the relationship between the utilization of temporary agency workers by firms and their competitiveness measured by unit labor costs, using a rich, newly built, dataset of German manufacturing enterprises. We conduct the analysis by applying different panel data models while taking the inherent selection problem into account. Making use of dynamic panel data models allows us to ...
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Industrial Relations
53 (2014), 3, S. 365-393
| Sebastian Nielen, Alexander Schiersch
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Researchers in the US have consistently reported substantial - not just statistically significant - links between religious belief and practice, and improved health and longevity. In this paper we report evidence for Germany, using data from thelong-running, nationally representative German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP 1984). The SOEP dataset includes multiple measures of health, plus many "controls" ...
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Social Indicators Research
119 (2014), 3, S.1335-1361
| Bruce Headey, Gerhard Hoehne, Gert G. Wagner
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The evaluation of market structures and the quantification of returns to scale in network industries usually are of high interest for researchers and policy makers. Regarding the debate on optimal market structures in German potable water supply, we use a cross-sectional sample of 364 German water utilities observed in 2006 to derive a nonparametric measure of scale elasticity for the water industry. ...
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Empirical Economics
47 (2014), 3, S. 1029-1053
| Michael Zschille