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This article shows for the first time that people are less satisfied when inequality in their country is higher than before, but not when inequality in their country is higher than in another country. It distinguishes this between- and within-country effect of inequality on life satisfaction by using hybrid regressions with the World Values Survey, the British Household Panel Study, the Australian ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
19 (2018), 4, 1021-1043
| Martin Schröder
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The paper gives an overview of two experiments implemented in the German Socio‐Economic Panel (SOEP) considering the effect of monetary incentives on cross‐sectional and longitudinal response propensities. We conclude that the overall effects of monetary incentives on response rates are positive compared to the "classic" SOEP setting, where a charity lottery ticket is offered as an incentive. ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2013,
(SOEPpapers 603)
| Mathis Schröder, Denise Saßenroth, John Körtner, Martin Kroh, Jürgen Schupp
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There are various independent studies evaluating family policy measures in Germany. So far, a systematic evaluation considering the different goals inherent to these measures was missing. The evaluation of family policy measures on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) and the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) is thus the first systematic overall ...
In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch
133 (2013), 4, 595-606
| Mathis Schröder, Rainer Siegers, C. Katharina Spieß
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The U-MICS is a self-report questionnaire designed to assess the identity dimensions from a domain-specific perspective. The present study reports on the development of a short-form version for the domains of job and romantic relationship in young adults from Germany and extends this scale to include the domain of region (nSample1 = 95, 84% female, mean age 22.45 years; nSample2 = 1,795, 71% female, ...
In:
Journal of Adolescence
54 (2017), January 2017, 104-109
| Elisabeth Schubach, Julia Zimmermann, Peter Noack, Franz J. Neyer
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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we show that nearly 50% of all carbon emissions caused by private transportation and building operations in Germany can be explained by structural determinants that go hand in hand with infrastructural peculiarities in rural and urban residential areas. Taking the theoretical background of building physics, allometry and increasing returns to ...
In:
Environmental Policy and Governance
23 (2013), 1, 13-29
| Johannes Schubert, Tobias Wolbring, Bernhard Gill
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A current proposal for reforming the German statutory health insurance suggests replacing earnings-related contributions by per-capita health premia. Combining a computable general equilibrium analysis with abundant empirical data on heterogenous household types, we investigate both the distributional and allocative impact of such a reform proposal. Our results indicate efficiency gains in terms of ...
In:
Journal of Health Economics
28 (2009), 5, 911-923
| Stefanie Schubert, Reinhold Schnabel
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This thesis brings together psychological and sociological research approaches to examine the role of personality in the reproduction of educational and labour market in-equality. The first research question examines the influence of personality on educational and labour market outcomes. The second research question relates to the extent to which differences in personalities of children and parents can ...
2017,
| Susanne Schührer
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The successful integration of immigrants and their children in host-country labor markets is one of the most important and challenging issues, faced not only by the German society, but also by other Western economies with large and growing immigrant populations. This thesis contributes to the ongoing debate about the determinants of long-term immigrant integration by analyzing several potential barriers, ...
2013,
| Simone Schüller
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This study analyzes the causal impact of the 9/11 terror attacks on individual political orientation and political support intensity using the German Socio-Economic Panel 1999–2003. Exploiting survey interview timing in 2001 for identification and controlling for unobserved individual heterogeneity, I find 9/11 to have increased overall political mobilization. While there is no indication of a considerable ...
In:
Economics Letters
135 (2015), October 2015, 80-84
| Simone Schüller
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A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families’ economic progression. This paper explores whether there are in fact long-term consequences by investigating intergenerational effects of parental ethnic identity on the next generation’s human capital accumulation. Results based on longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) indicate a positive role of ...
In:
Journal of Population Economics
28 (2015), 4, 965-1004
| Simone Schüller