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Research on socio-economic mobility focuses on how background affects later labour market outcomes. Growing up in a disadvantaged household does not always lead to the same outcomes however, and the extent to which this matters depends on the local labour market. Using multilevel models on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, this article shows that disadvantaged young adults (16–35 years old) are ...
In:
European Sociological Review
32 (2016), 5, 662-674
| Wouter Zwysen
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We study the causal effect of local labor market conditions and attitudes towards immigrants at the time of arrival on refugees’ multi-dimensional integration outcomes (economic, linguistic, navigational, political, psychological, and social). Using a unique dataset on refugees, we leverage a centralized allocation policy in Germany where refugees were exogenously assigned to live in specific counties. ...
In:
Journal of Urban Economics
137 (2023), September 2023, 103588
| Cevat G. Aksoy, Panu Poutvaara, Felicitas Schikora
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Personality predicts how we interact with others, what partners we have, and how happy and lasting our romantic relationships are. At the same time, our experiences in these relationships may affect our personality. Who experiences specific major relationship events and how do these events relate to personality development? We examined this issue based on data from a nationally representative household ...
In:
Developmental Psychology
56 (2020), 9, 1803-1816
| Eva Asselmann, Jule Specht
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This study uses the German socioeconomic panel data to investigate the effects of mass migration of East Germans on the generalized trust of West Germans who experienced the aftermath of the unification. Results suggest that West Germans’ trust is negatively correlated with migration, but the persistent effect is only confined to participants in the labor markets at the time. The subsequent analysis ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
179 (2020), November 2020, 425-441
| Seong Hee Kim, Byung-Yeon Kim
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Over a million people sought asylum in Germany between 2014 and 2016. During this time, many Germans began volunteering in various ways to help refugees and mentorship pro- grams in particular gained significance. As this report shows, participating in a mentorship program has a positive impact on refugees: They improve their language skills and become more socially active. Mentors experience the relationship ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
10 (2020), 49, 457-465
| Magdalena Krieger, Philipp Jaschke, Martin Kroh, Nicolas Legewie, Lea-Maria Löbel
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Employees exert emotional effort in order to perform their work effectively, albeit to varying degrees based on their occupation. These emotional job demands (EJDs) affect employees’ well-being, yet evidence is mixed as to whether these effects are positive or negative. One limiting factor in extant studies is that they investigated short-term effects or cross-sectional relationships between EJDs (usually ...
In:
Journal of Applied Psychology
106 (2021), 11, 1734-1749
| Susan Reh, Cornelia Wieck, Susanne Scheibe
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We analyzed decision making under risk in a group of 50 poor individuals and a group of 50 rich individuals from the city of Lima, Peru, using the Columbia Card Task game. Contrary to the decisions of the rich, the decisions of the poor were insensitive to changes in the magnitude of potential losses: the risk taking of the poor did not increase when potential losses were low compared to when they ...
In:
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
77 (2018), 96-106
| Piero Ronzani, Lucia Savadori, Giuseppe Folloni, Luigi Mittone
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Ostracism, that is, being excluded and ignored by others, is a highly painful and threatening experience for individuals. Most empirical research on ostracism has been carried out in the lab or focused on samples in specific contexts. Here, we investigate the effects of age on how individuals experience ostracism within a broad, representative sample of the adult German population (the Socio-Economic ...
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Developmental Psychology
56 (2020), 10, 1999-2012
| Selma C. Rudert, Stefan Janke, Rainer Greifeneder
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In Germany, more and more parents are taking advantage of early childhood education and care services for their very young children. Since the quality of such services varies, however, children experience very diverse developmental environments. This raises important questions: Which groups of parents are more likely to choose high-quality facilities for their children than others? How do these selection ...
Zürich:
Jacobs Foundation,
2014,
(Annual Report 2013)
| Pia S. Schober, C. Katharina Spieß, Yvonne Anders
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This paper explores whether firms recruit workers with different personality traits for different tasks. We conduct a discrete choice experiment among recruiters of 634 firms in Germany, asking recruiters to choose between job applicants who differ in seven characteristics: professional competence, the Big Five personality traits, and the prospective wage level. We find that all personality traits ...
In:
Labour Economics
78 (2022), 102186
| Caroline Wehner, Andries de Grip, Harald Pfeifer