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In the context of the present thesis, an instrument for the assessment of subclinical stress symptoms was developed and investigated. For this purpose, the exposure to stress, other socio-economic risk factors, and childhood adversities were investigated on the basis of representative samples both of the general population as well as of forensic patient populations. Furthermore, subclinical stress ...
2021,
| Elisa Helms
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Over the last several decades, a large number of developed countries has not only witnessed a downturn in civic engagement, but has also seen the breakdown of traditional family structures. Despite these coinciding trends, Putnam argues in Bowling alone (2000) that none of the major observed declines in civic engagement can be accounted for by the decline in the traditional family. In this paper, we ...
Bern:
2012,
| Timo Hener, Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler
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Job satisfaction has been found to increase with age. However, we still have a very limited understanding of how job satisfaction changes as people approach retirement. This is important as the years before retirement present specific challenges for older workers. We employed a time-to-retirement approach to investigate (i) mean levels of change in job satisfaction in the decade before retirement, ...
In:
European Journal of Ageing
21 (2024), 1, 33
| Georg Henning, Graciela Muniz-Terrera, Andreas Stenling, Martin Hyde
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This field experiment investigates the causal impact of mothers' perceptions of gender norms on their employment attitudes and labor-supply expectations. We provide mothers of young children in Germany with information about the prevailing gender norm regarding maternal employment in their city. At baseline, over 70% of mothers incorrectly perceive this gender norm as too conservative. Our randomized ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2024,
(IZA Discussion Paper No. 17543)
| Henning Hermes, Marina Krauß, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter, Simon Wiederhold
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The four-day-week receives growing attention by companies, researchers, and governments. A core premise of the concept is that reducing working hours increases individual well-being. While trials in public and private organisations support this claim, empirical studies on the relationship between working hours and well-being do not offer conclusive evidence. This study contributes to the academic literature ...
2022,
| Marla D. Hinkenhuis
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Empirical evidence on the causal effect of perceived economic uncertainty (PEU) on fertility is sparse and results are ambiguous. To provide causal evidence on the effect of PEU on fertility, we exploit exogenous variation in PEU induced by the announcement of a major German unemployment benefit reform in an instrumental variable approach. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate ...
Berlin:
2012,
| Barbara Hofmann, Katrin Hohmeyer
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This paper examines the association between the level of similarity in the “Big Five” personality traits of the partners in different-sex couples and their risk of union dissolution. Prior research has mainly focused on homogamy in socio-economic, demographic, and cultural characteristics, such as age, education, employment, and religion. The few studies on the effects of homogamy in the personalities ...
In:
Genus
80 (2024), 1, 19
| Elias Hofmann, Sandra Krapf
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Although older refugees can be seen as particularly vulnerable to social isolation and loneliness, they are often overlooked by ageing and migration scholars. This article addresses this research gap by identifying and examining potential drivers of loneliness among older refugees. The study analysed data from the first two waves of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees, focusing on 958 individuals ...
In:
Journal of Refugee Studies
(online first) (2023),
| Vincent Horn, Tineke Fokkema
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Can television have a mitigating effect on xenophobia? To explore this question, we investigate a natural experiment in which individuals in some regions of East Germany could not - due to their geographic location - consume West German television until 1989. By analyzing survey data from the periods before and after German reunification, we provide evidence that individuals who received West German ...
In:
Kyklos
76 (2023), 1, 77-100
| Lars Hornuf, Marc Oliver Rieger, Sven A. Hartmann
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This paper studies the public sector wage gap by gender and skill level in Spain using recent administrative data from tax records. We estimate wage distributions in the presence of covariates separately for men and women in the public sector and in the private sector. Then, we decompose the public sector wage gap along the wage distribution and isolate the part due to differences in the remunerations ...
2013,
| Laura Hospio, Enrique Moral-Benito