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Background: This study investigates possible mechanisms that can explain the association between unemployment and smoking, that is a) unemployment increases smoking probability (causation), b) smoking increases the probability to become unemployed (selection), and c) differences in both smoking and unemployment probabilities trace back to differences in socio-economic position (common cause). Methods: ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2012,
(SOEPpapers 491)
| Reinhard Schunck, Benedikt G. Rogge
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The U-MICS is a self-report questionnaire designed to assess the identity dimensions from a domain-specific perspective. The present study reports on the development of a short-form version for the domains of job and romantic relationship in young adults from Germany and extends this scale to include the domain of region (nSample1 = 95, 84% female, mean age 22.45 years; nSample2 = 1,795, 71% female, ...
In:
Journal of Adolescence
54 (2017), January 2017, 104-109
| Elisabeth Schubach, Julia Zimmermann, Peter Noack, Franz J. Neyer
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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we show that nearly 50% of all carbon emissions caused by private transportation and building operations in Germany can be explained by structural determinants that go hand in hand with infrastructural peculiarities in rural and urban residential areas. Taking the theoretical background of building physics, allometry and increasing returns to ...
In:
Environmental Policy and Governance
23 (2013), 1, 13-29
| Johannes Schubert, Tobias Wolbring, Bernhard Gill
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A current proposal for reforming the German statutory health insurance suggests replacing earnings-related contributions by per-capita health premia. Combining a computable general equilibrium analysis with abundant empirical data on heterogenous household types, we investigate both the distributional and allocative impact of such a reform proposal. Our results indicate efficiency gains in terms of ...
In:
Journal of Health Economics
28 (2009), 5, 911-923
| Stefanie Schubert, Reinhold Schnabel
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This thesis brings together psychological and sociological research approaches to examine the role of personality in the reproduction of educational and labour market in-equality. The first research question examines the influence of personality on educational and labour market outcomes. The second research question relates to the extent to which differences in personalities of children and parents can ...
2017,
| Susanne Schührer
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The successful integration of immigrants and their children in host-country labor markets is one of the most important and challenging issues, faced not only by the German society, but also by other Western economies with large and growing immigrant populations. This thesis contributes to the ongoing debate about the determinants of long-term immigrant integration by analyzing several potential barriers, ...
2013,
| Simone Schüller
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This study analyzes the causal impact of the 9/11 terror attacks on individual political orientation and political support intensity using the German Socio-Economic Panel 1999–2003. Exploiting survey interview timing in 2001 for identification and controlling for unobserved individual heterogeneity, I find 9/11 to have increased overall political mobilization. While there is no indication of a considerable ...
In:
Economics Letters
135 (2015), October 2015, 80-84
| Simone Schüller
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A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families’ economic progression. This paper explores whether there are in fact long-term consequences by investigating intergenerational effects of parental ethnic identity on the next generation’s human capital accumulation. Results based on longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) indicate a positive role of ...
In:
Journal of Population Economics
28 (2015), 4, 965-1004
| Simone Schüller
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The 9/11 terror attacks are likely to have induced an increase in anti-immigrant and anti-foreigner sentiments, not only among US residents but also beyond US borders. Using unique longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting exogenous variation in interview timing throughout 2001, I find that the 9/11 events caused an immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within-standard ...
In:
Kyklos
69 (2016), 4, 604-632
| Simone Schüller
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Compulsory military service is a uniformed life event disrupting the lives of young men (and sometimes women) in countries with conscription. Consequently, the development of personality and subjective well-being during service was investigated using representative population data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. In line with previous findings, men who chose military service revealed descriptively ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2015,
(SOEPpapers 751)
| Johannes Schult, Jörn R. Sparfeldt