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To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation (Putnam 1993), we model the intergenerational transmission of priors about the trustworthiness of others. We show that this transmission tends to be biased toward excessively conservative priors. As a result, societies can be trapped in a low-trust equilibrium. In this context, a temporary ...
In:
Journal of the European Economic Association
6 (2008), 2-3, 295-320
| Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales
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We analyze well-being effects of minimum wages, using the introduction of the minimum wage in Germany as a quasi-experiment. Based on representative data, a difference-in-differences design compares the development of life, job, and pay satisfaction between employees who are affected by the reform according to their pre-intervention wages and those who have marginally higher wages at outset. We find ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
21 (2020), 7, 2669–2692
| Filiz Gülal, Adam Ayaita
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Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2007,
(SOEPpapers 64)
| Sebastian Gundel, Heiko Peters
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Purpose: – Because of the increasing importance of immigration for Germany due to the ageing population and the lack of highly skilled in some industries, the purpose of this paper is to analyse the return‐migration of German immigrants. Design/methodology/approach: – The paper uses the German Socio‐economic Panel to conduct an event‐history analysis of return‐migration. Findings: – The analysis reveals ...
In:
International Journal of Social Economics
35 (2008), 11, 769-782
| Sebastian Gundel, Heiko Peters
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Scholars have recently stressed two important avenues for the study of cultural diversity and social capital: the role of political integration regimes as well as alternative indicators to generalised trust. This article addresses both. Focusing on Germany, it provides the first study of the relationship between cultural diversity and social capital in a country implementing an ‘assimilationist’ model ...
In:
Political Studies
62 (2014), 3, 596-617
| Birte Gundelach, Richard Traunmüller
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Wiesbaden:
Destatis,
2003,
(CHINTEX Working Paper #19)
| Roland Günther
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In:
Ulrich Rendtel, Manfred Ehling, et al. ,
Harmonisation of Panel Surveys and Data Quality (Chintex)
Wiesbaden: Statistisches Bundesamt
8-38
| Roland Günther
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Syracuse:
Syracuse University, Maxwell School,
2002,
(Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 331)
| Neeru Gupta, et al.
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In:
Judith Treas, Sonja Drobnic ,
Dividing the Domestic: Men, Women, and Household Work in Cross-National Perspective
Stanford: Stanford University Press
105-122
| Sanjiv Gupta, Marie Evertsson, Daniela Grunow, Magnus Nermo, Liana C. Sayer
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In:
Journal of Population Economics
5 (1992), 1, 61-85
| Siv Gustafsson