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Purpose: Cross-sectional studies found high levels of depression and anxiety symptoms, and loneliness during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Reported increases were lower in longitudinal population-based findings. Studies including positive outcomes are rare. This study analyzed changes in mental health symptoms, loneliness, and satisfaction. Methods: Respondents of the German Socio-Economic ...
In:
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
57 (2022), 12, 2481-2490
| Nora Hettich, Theresa M. Entringer, Hannes Kröger, Peter Schmidt, Ana N. Tibubos, Elmar Braehler, Manfred E. Beutel
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Einstellungsverhalten, Entlohnung und Beschäftigungsperspektiven in neu gegründeten Betrieben: In der Volkswirtschaftslehre wird das Unternehmertum als treibende Kraft hinter dem Prozess kreativer Zerstörung betrachtet, die Innovationen in den Markt einführt, ineffiziente Betriebe verdrängt, und so den Grundstein für das Wachstum der Wirtschaft legt. Ein wesentlicher Bestandteil unternehmerischen Handelns ...
2022,
| Lisa Hölscher
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This paper studies the effect of both retirement and unemployment on life satisfaction, using subjective satisfaction indicators from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Moreover, we analyze how accurate individuals anticipate changes in satisfaction around retirement, as well as the correlation between the forecast error in life satisfaction and the labor market status. Being unemployed has a significant ...
In:
De Economist
161 (2013), 3, 349-366
| Marzieh Abolhassani, Rob Alessie
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This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents, and reduced their wage penalty within these occupations. We also show that this significantly contributed to ...
In:
Journal of Labor Economics
(online first) (2024),
| Melanie Arntz, Cäcilia Lipowski, Guido Neidhöfer, Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage
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Using the 2015 introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany as a quasi-experiment, I investigate the effects of wage increases on personality. The degree to which each worker’s wage is intended to be affected by the reform is used as an instrument for the relative increase in the worker’s hourly wage in a two-stage least squares estimation based on nationally representative panel data (N = 1,955 ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2022,
(EconStore Working Paper)
| Adam Ayaita
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Background: Perfectionism, low self-esteem and external locus of control are psychological constructs linked to insomnia, anxiety and depression. Examining how these constructs impact mental health and serve as risk factors for the development of clinically significant symptoms may help direct psychological support resources and preventative measures for university students. Aims: To longitudinally ...
In:
BJPsych Open
8 (2022), 3, e86
| Julia A. B. Lindsay, Niall M. McGowan, Nathan King, Daniel Rivera, Melanie Li, Jin Byun, Simone Cunningham, Kate E. A. Saunders, Anne Duffy
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How does risk preference change across the life span? We address this question by conducting a coordinated analysis to obtain the first meta-analytic estimates of adults longitudinal age differences in risk-taking propensity around the world. We report results from 26 longitudinal samples (12 panels; 187,733 unique respondents; 19 countries) covering general and domain-specific risk-taking propensity ...
2022,
(PsyArXiv Preprints)
| Yunrui Liu, Alexandra Bagaïni, Gayoung Son, Madlaina Kapoor, Rui Mata
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Abstract We investigate the link between personality traits (PTs) and fertility, accounting for the possible interplay with other key life course events. Using data from German Socio-Economic Panel survey, we build sequence-type representations of fertility, union and job careers between the ages of 20 and 40. We rely on multichannel sequence analysis (MSA) and on the Partitioning around Medoids algorithm ...
In:
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society)
185 (2022), 3, 1344-1369
| Letizia Mencarini, Raffaella Piccarreta, Marco Le Moglie
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This dissertation consists of four chapters that contribute to applied microeconomics. My co-authors and I combine theoretical and experimental methods to study behavioral paradoxes and market inefficiencies. Chapters 1 and 2 contribute to the understanding of image concerns. They study the dynamic implications of how individuals perceive themselves and are perceived by others. Chapter 3 focuses on ...
2022,
| Vasilisa Petrishcheva
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Why do consumers make different decisions even when socioeconomic conditions are similar? The present article examines the effects of human values—as formulations of motivational goals—on the decision to purchase electricity storage for a photovoltaic system, a phenomenon hardly explored in prior research regarding high-priced household investments. About 50 percent of photovoltaic-system owners in ...
In:
Journal of Consumer Behaviour
21 (2022), 4, 909-926
| Stefan Poier, Anna Maria Nikodemska-Wołowik, Michał Suchanek