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This study explores the relationship between the adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries. Using establishment-level data on injuries, we find that a one standard deviation increase in our commuting zone-level measure of robot exposure reduces work-related annual injury rates by approximately 1.2 cases per 100 workers. US commuting zones more exposed to robot penetration experience a significant ...
In:
Labour Economics
78 (2022), October 2022, 102205
| Rania Gihleb, Osea Giuntella, Luca Stella, Tianyi Wang
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The number of employed persons in Germany has grown by over five million since 2000, in part due to an increase in immigration. This development is reflected in private household income, which has increased by 12 percent over the same period. Since 2013, all income groups have been benefiting from this increase and in 2015, the lowest income decile began benefiting as well. Disposable income inequality ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
17/18/2020 (2020), 315-323
| Markus M. Grabka, Jan Goebel
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In recent years, historians have increasingly looked at social science data in their search for sources to study the transformation period. Researchers hope that a secondary analysis of this data will expand the existing sources. This expansion promises new perspectives, while simultaneously bringing new methodological challenges to the discipline. This article deals with both: 1. It uses a history ...
In:
Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej
15 (2019), 1, 72-91
| Kerstin Brückweh, Kathrin Zöller
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Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality schools because their parents differ in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that children are significantly less likely to enter the academic track if they come from low socio-economic status (SES) families, even after conditioning on prior measures ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2020,
(IZA DP No. 13387)
| Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Pia Pinger
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Loneliness has traditionally been studied on the individual level. This study is one of the first to systematically describe and explain differences in loneliness on a fine-grained regional level. Using data from the nationally representative German Socio-EconomicPanel Study (N = 17,602), we mapped the regional distribution of loneliness across Germany and examined whether regional differences in loneliness ...
In:
Social Psychological and Personality Science
12 (2021), 2, 147-155
| Susanne Buecker, Tobias Ebert, Friedrich M. Götz, Theresa Entringer, Maike Luhmann
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The aim of this paper is twofold: First, we implement and validate the famous Big Five model on personality traits in a rural developing country setting. Second, we provide micro level evidence that examines personality traits of rural households in Thailand and Vietnam. Using new representative individual level data, our results show that the Big Five model can be applied in a rural setting. Moreover, ...
Hannover:
Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Institute of Development and Agricultural Economics, Project TVSEP,
2019,
(TVSEP Working Papers 14)
| Dorothee Bühler, Rasadhika Sharma, Wiebke Stein
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Objective: We investigate the applicability of the Big Five model in rural Southeast Asia and thereby challenge recent concerns about the validity of the model in developing countries. Method: We use a novel data set on personality traits from rural Thailand and Vietnam (N = 3811 individuals). In our analysis, we (i) assess the factor structure of the data, (ii) test the internal consistency of the ...
In:
Journal of Personality
91 (2023), 6, 1364-1380
| Dorothee Bühler, Rasadhika Sharma, Wiebke Stein
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We use a novel method to elicit and measure higher order risk preferences (prudence and temperance) in an experiment with 658 adolescents. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that higher order risk preferences - particularly prudence - are strongly related to adolescents' field behavior, including their financial decision making, eco-friendly behavior, and health status, including addictive ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2020,
(IZA DP No. 13646)
| Sebastian O. Schneider, Matthias Sutter
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Individuals with assets in the millions of euros have been underrepresented in population surveys and accordingly little has been known about them. As a result, the full extent of wealth concentration in Germany was unknown. To close the existing data gap, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) inte- grated a special sample in which individuals with high assets are overrepresented. New calculations using ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
30/2020 (2020), 313-322
| Carsten Schröder, Charlotte Bartels, Konstantin Göbler, Markus M. Grabka, Johannes König
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Societal acceptance of the LGBTQI* people has greatly improved over the past decades in Germany and legal equal treatment on the labor market has been improved by the General Equal Treatment Act (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz, AGG). However, about 30 percent of those who identify as LGBTQI* report experiencing discrimination in their work life, according to the results of a survey conducted by ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
36/2020 (2020), 375-383
| Lisa de Vries, Mirjam Fischer, David Kasprowski, Martin Kroh, Simon Kühne, David Richter, Zaza Zindel