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Munich:
2004,
| Sascha O. Becker, Frank Siebern-Thomas
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Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory: Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. We test the theory using county-level data from late 19th-century Prussia, exploiting the initial concentric dispersion of the Reformation ...
In:
Quarterly Journal of Economics
124 (2009), 2, 531-596
| Sascha O. Becker, Ludger Woessmann
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In:
American Sociological Review
71 (2006), 6, 964-985
| Jason Beckfield
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Based on German individual-level panel data, this paper empirically examines the impact of self-managed working time (SMWT) on employee effort. Theoretically, workers may respond positively or negatively to having control over their own working hours, depending on whether SMWT increases work morale, induces reciprocal work intensification, or encourages employee shirking. We find that SMWT employees ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2014,
(SOEPpapers 636)
| Michael Beckmann, Thomas Cornelißen
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This paper theoretically and empirically examines the impact of self-managed working time (SMWT) on employee effort. As a policy of increased worker autonomy, SMWT can theoretically increase effort via intrinsic motivation and reciprocal behaviour, but it can also lead to a decrease of effort due to a loss of control. Based on German individual-level panel data, we find that SMWT employees exert higher ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
133 (2017), January 2017, 285-302
| Michael Beckmann, Thomas Cornelissen, Matthias Kräkel
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A central argument for the deregulation of employment contracts is that fixed-term contracts boost employment of jobseekers with uncertain productivity by giving employers a tool to screen such applicants over a longer period of time before permanent hire. We test this proposition by comparing the risk of entering fixed-term employment for individually laid-off workers with that for individuals who ...
In:
European Sociological Review
34 (2018), 2, 184-197
| Thomas Biegert, Michael Kühhirt
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This paper uses panel data on life satisfaction of about 40,000 individuals in Germany from 1994 to 2013 to analyze the relationship of subjective well-being and several measures of fuel poverty. We study fuel poverty and its effects on life satisfaction in terms of incidence, intensity and in comparison to income poverty. We find a negative and significant effect of fuel poverty on subjective well-being. ...
Oldenburg:
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Department für Wirtschafts- und Rechtswissenschaften,
2016,
(Oldenburg Discussion Papers in Economics V-395-16)
| Philipp Biermann
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In:
Proceedings of the 1998 Third International Conference of the GSOEP Study Users. Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung
68 (1999), 2, 275-283
| Martin Biewen
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In:
Review of Income and Wealth
46 (2000), 1, 1-19
| Martin Biewen
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In:
Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv (ASTA)
85 (2001), 409-425
| Martin Biewen