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There is growing interest in understanding how gender influences the accumulation of wealth. While prior studies focused on labor-related determinants, our research focuses on inheritances and gifts. Using unique survey data that oversamples the top 1% of wealth holders in Germany, we show that the gender wealth gap is small for individuals up to age 40, then widens, and declines for those past retirement ...
In:
Economics Letters
246 (2025), 111997
| Charlotte Bartels, Eva Sierminska, Carsten Schröder
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Background: The large increase in numbers of refugees and asylum seekers in Germany and most of Europe has put the issue of migration itself, the integration of migrants, and also their health at the top of the political agenda. However, the dynamics of refugee health are not yet well understood. From a life-course perspective, migration experience is associated with various risks and changes, which ...
In:
PLOS Medicine
17 (2020), 3, e1003093
| Jan Michael Bauer, Tilman Brand, Hajo Zeeb
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Nearly 25 years after the German reunification, vastly different living conditions between East and West Germany still remain. This is particularly true for the distribution of net wealth which is of special importance for the well-being of individuals. Wealth provides utility in a number of ways, for instance, by acting as a buffer against negative income shocks. Using the wealth component of the ...
Tübingen:
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences,
2015,
(University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance)
| Gideon Becker
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We provide novel evidence about the incentive and welfare effects of an increase in the generosity of disability benefits. Importantly, a unique policy variation in Germany allows us to isolate the income effect of a change in benefit generosity. We leverage this quasi-experimental policy variation using an RD design to estimate the effect of increasing disability benefits on employment, earnings, ...
In:
IZA DP No. 17298
IZA DP No. 17298
| Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
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While the existing evidence on added worker effects is mixed, most studies find no or only small effects. However, studies to date have mostly analyzed individuals’ actual labor supply responses to their partners’ job loss, neglecting to consider a potential mismatch between desired and actual labor supply adjustments. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we study individuals’ changes ...
In:
Review of Economics of the Household
(online first) (2024),
| Mattis Beckmannshagen, Rick Glaubitz
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Psychosocial stress is considered a risk factor for physical and mental ill-health. Evidence on socioeconomic inequalities with regard to the psychosocial consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany is still limited. We aimed to investigate how pandemic-induced psychosocial stress (PIPS) in different life domains differed between socioeconomic groups.
In:
BMC Public Health
24 (2024), 1, 1421
| Florian Beese, Benjamin Wachtler, Markus M. Grabka, Miriam Blume, Christina Kersjes, Robert Gutu, Elvira Mauz, Jens Hoebel
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The pace of thermal retrofit of buildings in Germany remains slow. A Worst-First approach, prioritizing the retrofit of inefficient buildings, would address energy- and social policy objectives and deliver economic and climate benefits. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) show how such an approach would protect especially low-income households often living in very inefficient buildings ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
19/20/2024 (2024), 139-145
| Sophie M. Behr, Merve Kücük, Maximilian Longmuir, Karsten Neuhoff
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A considerable number of studies have found negative effects of birth order on a range of individual outcomes, from earnings and employment in adulthood to cognitive and non-cognitive skills throughout childhood and adolescence. Nevertheless, studies in developing countries exhibit positive effects, suggesting that birth order estimates may be highly context-specific. Moreover, recent evidence on the ...
2022,
| Wifag Adnan, Konstantinos Chountas, Ekaterini Kyriazidou, Tetyana Surovtseva
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This study compares two pay evaluations: pay justice and pay satisfaction. Conceptually, pay justice entails a moral assessment and is more specific to work, whereas pay satisfaction is a broader attitude that includes non-work-related factors. We analyzed German employee data and found overall similarity in determinants but differences in proximity to work contexts. Pay satisfaction was more strongly ...
In:
Social Psychology Quarterly
86 (2023), 1, 95-106
| Jule Adriaans, Carsten Sauer, Cristóbal Moya
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Risk and uncertainty play a vital role in almost every significant economic decision, and an individual’s propensity to make riskier decisions also depends on various circumstances. This article aims to investigate the effects of social and economic covariates on an individual’s willingness to take general risks and extends the scope of existing works by using quantitative measures of risk-taking from ...
In:
Mathematical and Computational Applications
29 (2024), 2, 21
| Faroque Ahmed, Mrittika Shamsuddin, Tanzila Sultana, Rittika Shamsuddin