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In this paper, we provide novel evidence on the effect of local unemployment rate on life satisfaction. With this, we contribute to the expanding literature that aims to understand the role of the local labor market's conditions for individual well-being. This information can be used to only analyze the impact of regional economic policies, as well as to understand individuals' behavior and ...
In:
Journal of Regional Science
62 (2022), 2, 412-442
| Antonio Di Paolo, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
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Grandparents act as the third largest caregiver after parental care and daycare in Germany, as in many Western societies. Adopting a double-generation perspective, we investigate the causal impact of this care mode on children's health, socio-emotional behavior, and school outcomes, as well as parental well-being. Based on representative German panel data sets, and exploiting arguably exogenous ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1152)
| Mara Barschkett, C. Katharina Spieß, Elena Ziege
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How does economic growth affect the distribution of wealth? Combining wealth records from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and local GDP growth across 401 German counties, this paper documents a sizable Hometown-Growth-Wealth Nexus. Using a standard OLG model to guide our estimation strategy, we find that, because of hometown growth, a person born in flourishing Munich will have accumulated two to three ...
2024,
(SSRN Working Paper)
| Charlotte Bartels, Johannes König, Carsten Schröder
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While research indicates that social trust might benefit societies? political and economic development, the sources of social trust are subject to debate. This article investigates a less investigated factor in the development of social trust: how far the nuclear family ? that is, partnerships and parenthood ? affects trust towards other people. The data are from three waves of the German Socio-Economic ...
In:
European Societies
24 (2022), 2, 111-128
| Morten Blekesaune
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We use Pareto imputation, survey reweighting, and microsimulation methods applied to combined household survey and tax return data to re-evaluate trends in income inequality and redistribution in the follow up of the post-socialist transition in Poland. Our approach results in the first estimates of top-corrected inequality trends for real equivalised disposable incomes over the years 1994–2015, a ...
In:
European Journal of Political Economy
73 (2022), June 2022, 102121
| Michal Brzezinski, Michał Myck, Mateusz Najsztub
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Many previous authors concluded that the middle class is disappearing as income polarization is increasing. Using the housing cycle of 2001--2007 and national panels for Australia, the United States, Germany, and Switzerland, I show that polarization is highly sensitive to housing cycles, affecting the ranking of countries. I then show that including non-monetary income from housing (imputed rent) ...
2021,
(Research Gate Preprint)
| Sergey Alexeev
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Within the Preparation Module for the Einstein Center for Population Diversity (ECPD), diverse research institutions came together to provide new survey instruments for the innovation sample in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP-IS). With the goal of collecting insightful information about future narratives and family care, central topics of the ECPD research endeavor, factorial survey was chosen ...
Berlin:
Hertie School,
2021,
| Enrique Alonso-Perez, Olan McEvoy, Vincent Ramos, Julie Lorraine O'Sullivan, Stefan Liebig, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Philipp Lersch, Giacomo Bazzani, Raffaele Guetto, Daniele Vignoli, Jan Heisig, Heike Solga, Paul Gellert
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Women have been found to be, on average, less interested in politics and less politically active than men, which might reduce the representation of women’s interests in a democracy. In order to enhance the understanding of these gender gaps, this preregistered study analyzes the role of personality differences for gender gaps in political interest and activity.I use a large representative sample of ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1150)
| Adam Ayaita
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Two traditional options for reforming Ehegattensplitting, the joint taxation of married couples with full income splitting, are de facto income splitting (Realsplitting) or individual taxation with a transferable personal allowance. However, these proposals do not significantly reduce the marginal tax burden on the secondary earner’s income and therefore only minimally encourage married women to participate ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
10 (2020), 41, 423-432
| Stefan Bach, Björn Fischer, Peter Haan, Katharina Wrohlich
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Daily, we face a plenty of negative information that can profoundly affect our perception and behavior. During devastating events such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, negative messages may hinder reasoning at individual level and social decisions in the society at large. These effects vary across genders in neurotypical populations (being more evident in women) and may be even more pronounced in ...
In:
Frontiers in neuroscience
15 (2021), 742576
| Elisabeth Simoes, Alexander N. Sokolov, Markus Hahn, Andreas J. Fallgatter, Sara Y. Brucker, Diethelm Wallwiener, Marina A. Pavlova