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Job satisfaction is sensitive to economic fluctuations; it rises during economic growth and falls in recessions. Job satisfaction also depends on relative comparisons. For workers less affected by business cycles-as is typical in the public sector-job satisfaction may thus be countercyclical due to comparisons with other sectors. Previous laboratory results confirm this countercyclical trend. This ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
25 (2024), 6, 70
| Oded Ravid
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This paper brings together the literature on regional variability in innovation activity with studies on the role of personality for regional innovativeness. Building on regionally aggregated levels of individual Big Five personality traits obtained from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the Big Five Project, we find that only extraversion has a positive effect on patenting in German regions. This ...
In:
Research Policy
53 (2024), 6, 105006
| Leonie Reher, Petrik Runst, Jörg Thomä
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What role do border regions play in fostering a European identity? The European Union considers them relevant places of integration and has dedicated €10 billion to cross-border co-operation between 2014 and 2020. This action relies on the idea that border regions are hot spots of integration, as they allow citizens to engage in transnational activities, stimulating a sense of cross-border community, ...
In:
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies
(online first) (2024),
| Moritz Rehm, Martin Schröder, Georg Wenzelburger
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Combining the frameworks of fundamental causes theory and diffusion of innovation, scholars had anticipated a delayed COVID-19 vaccination uptake for people in lower socioeconomic position depending on the socioeconomic context. We qualify these propositions and analyze educational differences in COVID-19 vaccination status over the first ten months of Germany’s vaccination campaign in 2021. Data from ...
In:
Scientific Reports
14 (2024), 1, 23904
| Marvin Reis, Niels Michalski, Susanne Bartig, Elisa Wulkotte, Christina Poethko-Müller, Daniel Graeber, Angelika Schaffrath Rosario, Claudia Hövener, Jens Hoebel
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This dissertation explores the challenge of decarbonization of the energy sector from different perspectives, applying various methods. Chapter 1 provides background and motivates the thesis. Chapter 2 assesses the relationship between geographical and temporal flexibility in a 100% renewable energy scenario across twelve central European countries. Applying a capacity expansion model and a factor ...
2024,
| Alexander Roth
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This article examines the link between immigrants’ social capital and their labour market access (employment) and success (occupational status) in Germany and contributes to previous research in two ways. Firstly, based on insights from theories of social capital and immigrant integration, we overcome the mere distinction between inter- and intra-ethnic ties. Instead, we approximate resources immigrants ...
In:
Comparative Migration Studies
12 (2024), 1, 7
| Julia Rüdel, Jan-Philip Steinmann
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Previous work found that laboratory lotteries used to reveal people’s risk preferences are less stable and predictive of realworld risk taking than survey-based stated preferences. How can stated preferences, often criticized as “cheap talk,” be so informative? Together with Max Planck Fellow Gert G. Wagner, researchers from the Center for Adaptive Rationality have investigated this question in a study ...
Berlin:
Max Planck Institute for Human Development,
2023,
(Spotlight 2023 Research Report Magazine)
| o.V.
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This study examines the relationship between personality traits (using the Big Five-Factor model, BFF), and participation and its intensity in holiday trips for German people without and with moderate and severe disabilities. Namely, this study investigates the contribution of the BFF model to understanding this relationship among travellers with different degrees of disability, and fills a gap in ...
In:
Current Issues in Tourism
28 (2025), 22, 3636–3660
| Ricardo Pagan
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We study how voters’ preferences between a safe incumbent and a risky opponent change in the aftermath of a negative aggregate shock. With reference-dependent preferences, economically disappointed voters become risk lovers, and are hence attracted by the more risky candidate. Survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are consistent with our assumptions and theoretical predictions on voters’ ...
In:
The Economic Journal
134 (2024), 663, 3047-3061
| Fausto Panunzi, Nicola Pavoni, Guido Tabellini
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The qualities of trainees play a key role in entrustment decisions by clinical supervisors for the assignments of professional tasks and levels of supervision. A recent body of qualitative research has shown that in addition to knowledge and skills, a number of personality traits are relevant in the workplace; however, the relevance of these traits has not been investigated empirically. The aim of ...
In:
BMC Medical Education
24 (2024), 1, 453
| Harm Peters, Amelie Garbe, Simon M. Breil, Sebastian Oberst, Susanne Selch, Ylva Holzhausen