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The aim of this thesis is to widen the understanding of the gender pay gap by introducing the factor of sexuality. Same-sex couples have legal rights that are relatively new; how does our understanding of labor division and pay change when more data on queer people emerge? This is achieved by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) from the year 2017 and making multiple regressions, ...
2020,
| Kotten Forsberg
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This paper analyses how a family's economic environment influences parental investments in children's development. Worsening economic conditions can incentivize parental investments by raising the importance of human capital accumulation in ensuring later-life success. Using a large representative German survey, in a regional and time- fixed effects setting, I estimate the causal impact of ...
Bonn und Mannheim:
Collaborative Research Center Transregio 224,
2020,
(CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper No. 205)
| Renske Stans
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Nicht immer stimmt die tatsächliche mit der gewünschten Arbeitszeit überein. Oftmals sind familiäre Verpflichtungen wie Kinderbetreuung der Grund hierfür. Diese Dissertation legt den Schwerpunkt auf die Entwicklung dieser Arbeitszeitdiskrepanzen und evaluiert zwei familienpolitische Maßnahmen, die die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf stärken sollen. Die kumulative Arbeit untersucht zunächst, welche ...
2020,
| Franziska Charlotte Zimmert
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Previous studies show that performance pay can benefit firms and workers by increasing productivity and wages. Yet, performance pay can also have unintended consequences for worker health. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the hypothesis that alcohol use as “self-medication” is a natural response to the stress and uncertainty associated with performance pay. We find that the ...
In:
Industrial Relations
61 (2022), 4, 353-383
| Mehrzad B. Baktash, John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn
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Background: Theoretical models in both clinical (Psychobiological Model of Social Rejection and Depression) as well as social psychology (Temporal Need Threat Model of Ostracism) have postulated that ostracism (i.e. being excluded and ignored by others) may foster the development of depressive symptomatology. However, stress generation models indicate that depression may also foster ostracism as depressed ...
In:
Journal of Affective Disorders Reports
4 (2021), 100118
| Selma C. Rudert, Stefan Janke, Rainer Greifeneder
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Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially so if partners work in the same occupation or industry. At the same time, being work-linked may benefit their career success. Still, surprisingly little is known about the wellbeing of work-linked couples. Our study fills this gap by examining the satisfaction differences between work-linked ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1127)
| Juliane Hennecke, Clemens Hetschko
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Research on the consequences of intermarriage is almost exclusively looking at immigrants’ labour market outcomes, with little attention given to non-economic indicators. Drawing from set-point theory and taking on a dynamic approach, the authors examine whether having a different- versus a same-origin partner is subject to a selection on life satisfaction, or associated with a greater short-term improvement ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
22 (2021), 3, 1413-1440
| Gina Potarca, Laura Bernardi
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Previous research on informal spousal caregiving has documented a reduced life satisfaction among caregivers, but it has rarely considered the dynamics over time, the mechanisms that drive these effects, and different types of transitions out of caregiving. This study aims to fill this gap by focusing on spousal caregivers’ life satisfaction before, during, and after episodes of caregiving. We apply ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
22 (2021), 3, 1481-1516
| Regina Gerlich, Tobias Wolbring
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We estimate wage premiums (male, union member and public sector) in West Germany using post penalized expectile regression. The estimation relies on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2010-2017. We use a double robust LASSO as penalization technique, which allows us to deal with potential omitted variable bias and to conduct expectile-specific model selection. In addition, we enrich our study ...
Erlangen-Nuremberg:
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Labor and Socio-Economic Research Center,
2020,
(LASER Discussion Papers - Paper No. 120)
| Giovanni Bonaccolto, Marina Töpfer
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This study investigates the effect of smallholders’ personality traits on their land rental market decisions. We develop a conceptual framework and show that these internal factors could affect smallholders’ land rental market participation beyond institutional and socio-demographic factors. Our empirical analysis is based on a survey of 2119 rural households collected in the North China Plain. We ...
In:
China Economic Review
62 (2020), August 2020, 101510
| Chen Qian, Fan Li, Gerrit Antonides, Nico Heerink, Xianlei Ma, Xiande Li