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This paper analyzes the home-ownership gap between native and immigrant households in Germany, paying particular attention to the assimilation process of immigrant households.A double cohort approach is applied to investigate the effect of the duration of residence in Germany on the homeownership probability of immigrant households.Moreover, focusing on homeowners, differences in the housing quality ...
In:
Urban Studies
47 (2010), 2, 387-409
| Mathias Sinning
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This paper investigates the determinants of migrants’ financial transfers to their home country using German data. A double-hurdle model is applied to analyze the determinants of the propensity to send transfers abroad and the amount of transfers. The findings reveal that return intentions positively affect financial transfers of immigrants to their home country. Moreover, while the effect of the household ...
In:
Review of Economics of the Household
9 (2011), 1, 45-67
| Mathias Sinning
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In:
Ulrich Rendtel, Manfred Ehling, et al. ,
Harmonisation of Panel Surveys and Data Quality (Chintex)
Wiesbaden: Statistisches Bundesamt
210-219
| Johanna Sisto, Ulrich Rendtel
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Few theories in the social sciences have gained more widespread acceptance than Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism—despite a lack of conclusive empirical evidence. At the core of Weber’s theory lies a connection between Protestantism and attitudes toward work. Using micro-data from contemporary Germany, this paper investigates the impact of Protestantism on economic outcomes ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
135 (2017), March 2017, 193-214
| Jörg L. Spenkuch
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Sector-specific surcharge collective labor agreements between the bargaining partner in the staffing industry allow for a reduction of wage gaps between agency workers and permanent staff in case of long-term job assignments to user companies. Stepwise surcharges up to 50% after a surcharge-free period between four and six weeks gradually close the wage gap for temporary agency workers in nine industries. ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2013,
(IZA Policy Paper No. 67)
| Alexander Spermann
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In:
Proceedings of the 1996 Second International Conference of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study Users. Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung
66 (1997), 1, 125-135
| C. Katharina Spieß
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Berlin:
Rat für Sozial- und WirtschaftsDaten,
2009,
(RatSWD Working Paper No. 60)
| C. Katharina Spieß
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In:
German Economic Review
1 (2000), 3, 335-362
| Frank Siebern
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2002,
| Thomas Siedler
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This chapter provides an overview on changes in the Big Five personality traits in young adulthood, middle adulthood, and old age. It includes information on mean-level changes in personality trait levels, rank-order consistencies of individuals on personality traits as well as changes in personality type membership. Findings from meta-analyses, large and national representative panel studies, and ...
In:
Jule Specht ,
Personality Development Across the Lifespan
London: Elsevier
53-67
| Jule Specht