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In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch (Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of German Socio-Economic Panel Study Users, ed. by Büchel, Felix; D'Ambrosio, Conchita and Frick, Joachim R.)
125 (2005), 1, 183-193
| Christin Schäfer, Jörg-Peter Schräpler, Klaus-Robert Müller, Gert G. Wagner
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Berlin:
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin),
2005,
(DIW Discussion Paper No. 480)
| Dorothea Schäfer, Oleksandr Talavera
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This paper investigates whether small businesses face financial constraints that affect their survival. A model of moral hazard is developed in which financial constraints arise endogenously. The model predicts that higher private assets relax financial constraints and have a positive effect on the firm’s probability of survival. The empirical analysis confirms that the entrepreneur has a higher propensity ...
In:
Small Business Economics
32 (2009), 1, 95-109
| Dorothea Schäfer, Oleksandr Talavera
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In principle, the SOEP is a highly adequate data source for analyzing the socio-economic background of temporary agency workers. In this paper, it’s argued that on second glance, the SOEP’s temp worker variable shows severe problems with data quality. An easy-to-use adjustment procedure is proposed that alleviates the problem, but is not an encompassing solution. Therefore, it is concluded that in ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2012,
(SOEPpapers 454)
| Holger Schäfer
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This paper analyzes private retirement savings, the amount for German individuals and how these savings are influenced by personality traits. With the 2002 to 2009 cross section of the Socio-Economic Panel for Germany (SOEP), it is investigated how the Big-Five and the Locus of Control influence the decision to have private retirement savings, and the estimated amount of these savings. Results indicate ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2016,
(SOEPpapers 867)
| Konrad C. Schäfer
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This paper investigates the stability of the Big-Five personality traits based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) from 2005, 2009, and 2013. The results indicate that the population means only show little variance over the eight year time frame. There is no link between age and mean-levels, and only minor changes of the mean-levels of the Big-Five over time for the working age population (25-64 ...
Hannover:
Leibniz Universität Hannover,
2017,
(Hannover Economic Papers (HEP) 600)
| Konrad C. Schäfer
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This paper considers the impact of personality traits on the change of the gender wage gap. Using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we first explore how personality traits affect wage growth rates. Then, a decomposition analysis is performed to analyse the dynamic effects of personality traits on the change of the gender wage gap over time. Our empirical results indicate that gender ...
In:
Bulletin of Economic Research
70 (2018), 1, 20-34
| Konrad C. Schäfer, Jörg Schwiebert
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The paper investigates the effectiveness of the median voter as a decisive agent in the process of redistribution. According to the previous literature, it tests several assumptions finding interesting results: The positive relation between inequality and redistribution is confirmed, but the median voter theorem seems not to be the driving force of this mechanism. Even if some results support the median ...
Luxembourg:
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS),
2009,
(Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 516)
| Francesco Scervini
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Walferdange (Luxemburg):
CEPS/INSTEAD,
1993,
(PACO Document No. 2)
| Gaston Schaber
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Colchester:
University of Essex,
1992,
(European Scientific Network on Household Panel Studies (ESF) Working Paper No. 29)
| Gaston Schaber, Günther Schmaus, Gert G. Wagner