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According to the ‘median-voter’ hypothesis, greater inequality in the market distribution of earnings or income tends to produce greater generosity in redistributive policy. We outline the steps in the causal chain specified by the hypothesis and attempt to assess these steps empirically. Prior studies focusing on cross-country variation have found little support for the median-voter model. We examine ...
In:
Socio-Economic Review
6 (2008), 1, 35-68
| Lane Kenworthy, Leslie McCall
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Syracuse:
Syracuse University, Maxwell School,
2005,
(Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 400)
| Lane Kenworthy, Jonas Pontusson
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In the light of persistent regional disparities in Germany, a wide range of studies discuss the role of regional characteristics in explaining the mobility behavior of individuals. Although multi-stage mobility theories underline the importance of regional structures particularly within the first stage of the decision-making process – whereas the actual mobility behavior is often seen as being dependent ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2014,
(SOEPpapers 681)
| Christoph Kern
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The present study models mobility dispositions as a function of individual-level as well as regional covariates and includes interactions between these two levels. With this approach, some light can be shed on the underlying mechanisms concerning regional structures in the decision-making process of regional mobility. The empirical findings exhibit considerable main and interaction effects regarding ...
In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch
135 (2015), 1, 23-34
| Christoph Kern
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Predictive modeling methods from the field of machine learning have become a popular tool across various disciplines for exploring and analyzing diverse data. These methods often do not require specific prior knowledge about the functional form of the relationship under study and are able to adapt to complex non-linear and non-additive interrelations between the outcome and its predictors while focusing ...
In:
Survey Research Methods
13 (2019), 1, 73-93
| Christoph Kern, Thomas Klausch, Frauke Kreuter
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The present study discusses the usage of non-linear constraints in regression models with multiple categorical outcomes. With this approach, effect differences between equations are made accessible to statistical tests while potential differences in residual variation are explicitly taken into account. In this context, it can be shown that the techniques reviewed by Williams (2010) are conjointly equivalent ...
In:
Survey Research Methods
9 (2015), 3, 159-167
| Christoph Kern, Petra Stein
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Analysing mobility decisions has been on the research agenda of various disciplines for many years, resulting in a diversity of conceptual and statistical approaches. However, previous empirical studies typically model regional mobility from an actor-centred perspective which lacks to take the contextual embeddedness of individuals in regions and partnerships into account. Against this background, ...
In:
European Sociological Review
34 (2018), 4, 433-451
| Christoph Kern, Petra Stein
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Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and construct a measure of hunger exposure from official data on caloric rations set monthly by the occupying forces, providing regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure with measures of trust using data from a nationally representative sample of the German population. We show ...
In:
Scandinavian Journal of Economics
122 (2020), 1, 280-305
| Iris Kesternich, James P. Smith, Joachim K. Winter, Maximiliane Hörl
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In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch
133 (2013), 2, 117-119
| Jürgen Schupp, Janet C. Gornick, C. Katharina Spieß, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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In:
Economic Bulletin
41 (2004), 1, 39-42
| Jürgen Schupp, Tobias Gramlich, Gert G. Wagner