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FAIRness of research data largely depends on the availability of rich and standardized metadata. While such metadata is commonly available at the study level, fine-grained metadata, especially for tabular scientific data, is often lacking (Wenzig/Han 2024). In a project funded by KonsortSWD-NFDI4Society, three research data centers (SOEP, LIfBi, and DZHW) investigate what is required to convert existing ...
2025,
(KonsortSWD Working paper)
| Knut Wenzig, Andreas Daniel, Dominique Hansen, Tobias Koberg, Mihaela Tudose
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This article explores the nexus between risk tolerance and altruism. Using information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find a statistically and economically significant positive correlation between risk tolerance and proxies for altruism conditional on a long covariate vector.
In:
Applied Economics Letters
(online first) (2025), 1-5
| Tim Friehe, Christian Pfeifer
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Remote work has become integral to contemporary work life, necessitating a detailed examination of its effects on employees? sense of community and support ? key factors influencing knowledge sharing, team performance, and well-being at work. To this end, this study examines how the adjustments made to working arrangements and workplace communication during and after the COVID-19 pandemic have affected ...
In:
Behaviour & Information Technology
(2025), 1-14
| Kaisa Pekkala, Reetta Oksa, Atte Oksanen
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OBJECTIVE: Diabetes is associated with lower labour force participation. The proportion of people having diabetes is higher among people with a low socio-economic position. We aimed to describe socio-economic differences in the association between diabetes and labour force participation in Germany. METHODS: Based on repeated cross-sectional data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, the probability ...
In:
Ger Med Sci
23 (2025),
| Malwina M. Mackowiak, Ralph Brinks, Annika Hoyer, Ute Linnenkamp, Katharina Piedboeuf-Potyka, Markus Neuhäuser, Oliver Kuss, Thaddäus Tönnies
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Chapter 1: Germany's efforts to curb international tax evasion. We evaluate the impact of regulatory attempts by German authorities to combat international tax evasion and report a 32-34% reduction of tax haven deposits in German banks as a reaction to bilateral information exchange. We test for reactions in monthly cross-border liabilities of German banks against non-residents employing a new ...
2022,
| Hannes Fauser
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I find that self-selection into teacher training programs in Germany is co-determined with ideology. Incoming teacher-trainees are more left-wing in ideology and political preferences than the average incoming university student. I find also that teacher training programs exert a socialization effect: as compared to the average student, teacher trainees’ views are reinforced and they become more left-wing ...
In:
European Journal of Political Economy
64 (2020), 101902
| Dalila Lindov
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In Germany, there is a large wealth gap between East and West Germans as well as a gap in life satisfaction, with people in East Germany reporting to be less satisfied. This article sheds light on the role of different levels of wealth and their association with affective well-being. On a wider scale, this article examines psychological consequences of wealth inequality between societal groups. Longitudinal ...
In:
Ayline Heller, Peter Schmidt ,
Thirty Years After the Berlin Wall. German Unification and Transformation Research.
London: Routledge
228-244
| Christoph Kasinger, Lisa Braunheim, Manfred E. Beutel, Elmar Brähler
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This paper analyzes the distribution and composition of pre-tax national income in Germany since 1992, combining personal income tax returns, household survey data, and national accounts. Inequality rose from the 1990s to the late 2000s due to falling labor incomes among the bottom 50% and rising incomes in the top 10%. This trend reversed after 2007 as labor incomes across the bottom 90% increased. ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2024,
(DIW Discussion Paper 2102)
| Stefan Bach, Charlotte Bartels, Theresa Neef
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Socioeconomic disparities in children's academic achievement are well established, but the underlying mechanisms are less well understood. We used linked data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) and the National Pupil Database (NPD) with causal mediation analysis to determine the extent to which school absences contribute to socioeconomic achievement gaps. Using different achievement measures ...
2024,
(OSF Preprints)
| Jascha Dräger, Markus Klein, Edward Sosu
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This work aims to provide an insight into the Household Budget Survey in Portugal, and within the European Statistical System, and in other countries, and provide actionable recommendations for the upcoming methodological revision of the Household Budget Survey in Portugal. The HBS is revised at 5 year intervals, and is currently done in the form of a traditional proxy survey with an SRS reflecting ...
2024,
| Tingi Gurung