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Background: Individuals generally see doctors to get physically well, with potential benefits but also costs. We investigate ostracism (feeling ignored and excluded) as one possible factor for frequently seeing doctors. Aims: We test three different conceptual accounts: (1) Ostracism may impact health through stress and social pain processes (i.e., sickness account). (2) Seeing doctors may satisfy ...
In:
European Journal of Health Psychology
(online first) (2024),
| Christiane M. Büttner, Fanny Lalot, Selma C. Rudert, Rainer Greifeneder
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Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people face frequent discrimination, maltreatment, and violence for transgressing gender roles upheld in heteronormative societies. Ostracism (i.e., being excluded and ignored) is likely another, understudied form of discrimination against sexual minorities. In a multi-method approach using a nationally representative panel (N = 4104) and experience sampling data (N ...
In:
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
(online first) (2024), 01461672241240675
| Christiane M. Büttner, Selma C. Rudert, Sven Kachel
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Surveys are an indispensable source of data for applied economic research; however, their reliance on self-reported information can introduce bias, especially if core variables such as personal income are misreported. To assess the extent and impact of this misreporting bias, we compare self-reported wages from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with administrative wages from social security records ...
arXiv:
2024,
| Marco Caliendo, Katrin Huber, Ingo E. Isphording, Jakob Wegmann
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We investigate the long-term effects of the introduction of the German minimum wage in 2015 and its subsequent increases on regional employment. Using comprehensive survey data, we are able to measure the regional bite of the minimum wage in 2014, just before its introduction, as well as in 2018, before it was raised substantially in several steps. The introduction mainly affected the labour market ...
In:
Labour Economics
92 (2025), 102648
| Marco Caliendo, Rebecca Olthaus, Nico Pestel
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We study the mating patterns of non-heterosexual individuals, who represent a significant and increasing portion of the population, particularly among the youth. We estimate a multidimensional matching model of the marriage market where partner's gender is endogenously chosen conditional on the agent's sexual orientation, and is subject to trade-offs that depend on both the agents' preferences ...
IZA,
2024,
(IZA DP No. 17420)
| Edoardo Ciscato, Marion Goussé
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This thesis assesses the potential effects of migration on the sending country, focusing on the impacts of migration on human capital stocks and human capital formation. Over the last century, the number of global migrants has increased substantially. The size of this migration and the skills make-up of those migrating is likely to have wide reaching economic impacts on not just the countries where ...
2022,
| Mory Charles Clark
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The present study examined the size and possible sources of life satisfaction differences between immigrants and natives in a sample of over 55,000 adults (aged 50+ years) across 16 European countries and Israel. Consistent with theory and prior research, immigrants reported lower life satisfaction than natives on average, while the size of the life satisfaction gap varied substantially across individuals ...
In:
Social Psychological and Personality Science
(online first) (2024),
| Wiebke Bleidorn, Madeline R. Lenhausen, David Richter, Christopher J. Hopwood
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This paper investigates the impact of air pollution on reservation wages. We use rich survey data on unemployed job seekers in Germany and exploit variation in individual exposure to fine particulate matter (PM10) based on the quasi-random allocation of interview slots to individuals. Our results show that an increase in PM10 by one standard deviation (corresponding to 12 μg/m3) reduces the reservation ...
IZA,
2024,
(IZA DP No. 17344)
| Mariët Bogaard, Steffen Künn, Juan Palacios, Nico Pestel
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The public-private sector wage gap is an important labor market indicator, reflecting sectoral differences in wage and recruitment policies. We provide new evidence on this sectoral gap throughout the wage distribution in Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984–2017), we decompose the wage gap and control for unobservable factors that endogenously determine the occupational sector ...
In:
Economic Modelling
116 (2022), 106037
| Marina Bonaccolto-Töpfer, Carolina Castagnetti, Stephanie Prümer
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This paper discusses the crucial but sometimes neglected differences between unconditional quantile regression (UQR) models and quantile treatment effects (QTE) models. We argue that there is a frequent mismatch between the aim of the quantile regression analysis and the quantitative toolkit used in much of the applied literature, including the motherhood wage penalty literature. This mismatch may ...
In:
European Sociological Review
39 (2023), 2, 317-331
| Nicolai T Borgen, Andreas Haupt, Øyvind Nicolay Wiborg