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Previous work has shown that preferences are not always stable across time, but surprisingly little is known about the reasons for this instability. I examine whether variation in people’s emotions over time predicts changes in preferences. Using a large panel data set, I find that within-person changes in happiness, anger, and fear have substantial effects on risk attitudes and patience. Robustness ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2019,
(SOEPpapers 1041)
| Armando N. Meier
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In:
Economica
75 (2008), 297, 39-59
| Stephan Meier, Alois Stutzer
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This paper measures and decomposes the differences in earnings distributions between public sector and private sector employees in Germany for the years 1984-2001. Oaxaca decomposition results suggest that conditional wages are higher in the public sector for women but lower for men. Using the quantile regression decomposition technique proposed by Machado and Mata (2004), we find that the conditional ...
In:
Empirical Economics
30 (2005), 2, 505-520
| Blaise Melly
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Washington, D.C:
1991,
| Manfred Melzer, Reiner Staeglin
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When choosing a new location migrants usually improve their economic situation, but what about their subjective well being (SWB)? Based on longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, I investigate the impact of migration from eastern to western Germany on SWB. Hypotheses are derived from human capital theory but also from psychological approaches. Fixed-effects models enable me to ...
In:
Journal of Social Research & Policy
2 (2011), 2, 73-91
| Silvia M. Melzer
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This article analyses migration from East to West Germany, focusing on the influence of education on migration and on the self-selection processes involved in decisions regarding education and migration. Using human capital, signalling, and segmentation theory, hypotheses are derived on the influence of education on migration. The migration patterns for men and women are investigated on the basis of ...
In:
European Sociological Review
29 (2013), 2, 210-228
| Silvia M. Melzer
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This paper examines the determinants of family migration from a post-socialist country, the former German Democratic Republic (today, the eastern part of reunified Germany), to a western country, West Germany. The paper seeks to answer the following questions: (1) How does the migration behavior of married and cohabitating men and women differ from that of individuals who live alone? (2) What factors ...
In:
European Societies
15 (2013), 3, 423-445
| Silvia M. Melzer
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<b>Objective</b>: This paper investigates commuting and interregional migration from eastern to western Germany, and asks, first: Who chooses to migrate and who chooses to commute? Second: Does commuting serve as a stepping-stone or as a long-term alternative to migration? And third: What role does education and educational–occupational mismatch play in those choices? <b>Methods</b>: ...
In:
Demographic Research
41 (2019), 16, 461-476
| Silvia Maja Melzer, Thomas Hinz
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In the present study, we examine employment biographies of women using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Specifically, we compare the cohort of the baby boomers (1956–1965) with two older cohorts (1936–1945 and 1946–1955) by carrying out sequence analyses to investigate changes in their employment careers. Based on the biography sequences, we consider four different clusters to identify typical ...
In:
Advances in Life Course Research
16 (2011), 2, 65-82
| Julia Simonson, Laura Romeo Gordo, Nadiya Titova
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Before the 90s, men’s employment careers in East and West Germany were quite similar, despite their widely differing institutional settings. Before reunification, employment biographies were mainly dominated by full-time employment in both East and West. After 1989 the GDR was incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany and almost all East German institutions were supplanted by adapted West German ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2011,
(SOEPpapers 391)
| Julia Simonson, Laura Romeu Gordo, Nadiya Kelle