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This paper analyzes how people’s subjective well-being adapts to income poverty in Switzerland and Germany and presents two empirical findings. First, financial satisfaction (FS) does not adapt in either country. However, life satisfaction fully adapts in Switzerland but not in Germany. Second, people in income poverty have income lower than their reference income. In the long run, those who remain ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
23 (2022), 6, 2491-2516
| Jianbo J. Luo
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The assumption of stable non-cognitive skills is important in the economic literature. This paper proposes to test this assumption by investigating whether a specific non-cognitive skill, locus of control, is stable after the occurrence of a health-related event, namely a hospital stay. To do so, we use a representative and longitudinal dataset of individuals living in Germany (SOEP). Our results show ...
In:
De Economist
170 (2022), 2, 257-277
| Antoine Marsaudon
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This paper describes datasets from two related surveys conducted in Germany: PIAAC and PIAAC-L. PIAAC is an OECD-initiated assessment that measures the cognitive skills of adults (aged 16–65 years). Around 40 countries worldwide participated in the first cycle of PIAAC. The German PIAAC data were collected in 2011/12. In the longitudinal follow-up survey to PIAAC, PIAAC-L, respondents from the German ...
In:
Journal of Open Psychology Data
11 (2022), 1, 20
| Silke Martin, Anouk Zabal, Débora B. Maehler, Beatrice Rammstedt
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To date, PHMR has often relied on male/female stratification, but rarely considers the complex, intersecting social positions of men and women in describing the prevalence of health and disease. Stratification on an Intersectional Gender-Score (IG-Score), which is based on a variety of social covariables, would allow comparison of the prevalence of individuals who share the same complex intersectional ...
In:
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
20 (2023), 3, 2220
| Emily Mena, Katharina Stahlmann, Klaus Telkmann, Gabriele Bolte, AdvanceGender Study Group
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We study how satisfaction with government efforts to respond to the COVID-19 crisis affects compliance with pandemic mitigation measures. Using a novel longitudinal household survey for Germany, we overcome the identification and endogeneity challenges involved in estimating individual compliance by using an instrumental variable approach that exploits exogenous variation in two indicators measured ...
In:
PLOS ONE
18 (2023), 2, e0281893
| Philipp Jaschke, Sekou Keita, Ehsan Vallizadeh, Simon Kühne
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Research on the consequences of works councils has been dominated by economic aspects. Our study provides evidence that works councils have nonfinancial consequences for civic society that go beyond the narrow boundaries of the workplace. Using panel data from a large sample of male workers, the study shows that works councils have an influence on workers' party preferences. The presence of a ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2023,
(IZA DP No. 15879)
| Uwe Jirjahn, Thi Xuan T. Le
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Income inequality is a central topic for the social sciences. Work on it is often motivated by the idea that inequality implies some welfare loss. Yet, the size of this loss remains an open question. A definite answer would be crucial for economic policy-making. The goal of this paper is to show that the evidential foundations of this debate can be advanced with survey data on wellbeing. For this purpose, ...
Oxford:
University of Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre,
2023,
(University of Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre Working Paper 2302)
| Caspar Kaiser
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Utilizing the German residential allocation and residency obligation policies, which can be regarded as a natural experiment, we investigate the causal effect of the local supply of language courses on refugees' labor market integration. By restricting refugees? initial and post-arrival regional mobility, these policies allow us to circumvent the potential problems of initial and post-arrival ...
In:
European Societies
25 (2023), 1, 1-36
| Agnieszka Kanas, Yuliya Kosyakova
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The literature argues that linguistic enclaves negatively affect immigrants? language proficiency by reducing their exposure and incentives to learn destination language. This negative association may, however, be spurious, arising due to the self-selection of immigrants into regions with larger enclaves. Exploiting the natural experiment of the German residential policy, this paper analyses the influence ...
In:
Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
(online first) (2022),
| Agnieszka Kanas, Yuliya Kosyakova, Ehsan Vallizadeh
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Emerging evidence has highlighted the important role of local contexts for integration trajectories of asylum seekers and refugees. Germany's policy of randomly allocating asylum seekers across Germany may advantage some and disadvantage others in terms of opportunities for equal participation in society. This study explores the question whether asylum seekers that have been allocated to rural ...
In:
Frontiers in Sociology
7 (2022), 941775
| Samir Khalil, Ulrich Kohler, Jasper Tjaden