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This paper takes a comparative approach to the topic of work time and health, asking whether weekly work hours matter for mental health. We hypothesize that these relationships differ within the United States and Germany, given the more regulated work time environments within Germany and the greater incentives to work long hours in the United States. We further hypothesize that German women will experience ...
In:
Journal of Health and Social Behavior
56 (2015), 1, 98-113
| Sibyl Kleiner, Reinhard Schunck, Klaus Schömann
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Over the last years, political and scientific debates have stressed the growing importance of adult education. Currently important research questions call not only for data sources that collect detailed information on adult education with repeated measurements and in different cohorts, but they should also include data on other life spheres such as education and working histories, partnership and household ...
Berlin:
Rat für Sozial- und WirtschaftsDaten (RatSWD),
2009,
(RatSWD Working Paper No. 91)
| Corinna Kleinert, Britta Matthes
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Locus of control, that is, people's perception of how much influence they have over their lives, is an important predictor for economic outcomes - earnings, health and education, to name a few. This article uses difference-in-differences analysis to investigate the importance of the institutional environment for the development of locus of control, using the fall of the Berlin Wall as exogenous ...
In:
Applied Economics Letters
25 (2018), 15, 1041-1044
| Kristin J. Kleinjans, Andrew Gill
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This paper uses concurrently and - for the first time - retrospectively reported life satisfaction from the 1984 to 1987 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to study the importance of different comparison standards for the empirical correlation of unemployment and subjective life satisfaction. It is found that unemployed individuals do not only report significantly lower concurrent satisfaction, ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2011,
(SOEPpapers 421)
| Marcus Klemm
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This paper addresses the importance of compositional changes in the labor force for the development of the wage distribution. Demographic change and higher educational attainment imply a shift toward employees with more experience and/or better education. These groups are characterized by higher relative wages as well as higher within-group wage inequality. Mechanically, these compositional shifts ...
Wiesbaden:
Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung,
2014,
(German Council of Economic Experts Working Paper 06/2014)
| Marcus Klemm, Benjamin Weigert
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In this paper the relationship between parental unemployment at time of children's labor market entrance on the quality of their children's first job is analyzed. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1991-2012 the quality of the first job in terms of wage, permanent position and full-time employment is examined. The results show a negative correlation between ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2016,
(SOEPpapers 820)
| Maria Kleverbeck, Michael Kind
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BACKGROUND: Couples tend to move house around first childbirth and often into suburban or rural neighbourhoods, conforming to the normative belief that children should grow up in a ‘proper family home.’ Such moves are likely to increase housing costs and both partners might need to contribute to the household income. But the move might also necessitate long commutes, inhibiting mothers’ labour force ...
In:
Demographic Research
40 (2019), Article 7, 155–184
| Stefanie Kley, Sonja Drobnič
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The health benefits of spas have been hypothesized for centuries. If this hypothesis is correct, spa therapy offers a low cost alternative to more expensive and potentially more invasive medical treatments for ailments such as back pain and arthritis. We use individual-level panel data to isolate the effect of spa therapy on missed work days and hospital visits in Germany. Simple correlations suggest ...
In:
Eastern Economic Journal
34 (2008), 3, 364-374
| Jonathan Klick, Thomas Stratmann
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Pro Kind is a German adaptation of the US Nurse Family Partnership program. It is an intervention based on home visits targeting first-time mothers from disadvantaged populations. Pro Kind was implemented as a randomized control trial from 2006 to 2012 with N = 755 first-time mothers (TG n = 394, CG n = 391). The 7–8-year follow-up aims to assess the mid-term effects of the program.
In:
Trials
19 (2018), 1, 323
| Sören Kliem, Malte Sandner, Anna Lohmann, Susan Sierau, Verena Dähne, Annette M. Klein, Tanja Jungmann
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Based on the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP), we show that household consumption drops and saving rises significantly within four years after a child moves out of a household. Per capita consumption of parents is approximately leveled up to that of childless peers after all children are gone. We conclude with respect to the adequacy of saving rates that calibrated life-cycle models assuming a smoothing ...
In:
Review of Finance
20 (2016), 6, 2349-2377
| Alexander Klos, Simon Rottke