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The number of employed persons in Germany has grown by over five million since 2000, in part due to an increase in immigration. This development is reflected in private household income, which has increased by 12 percent over the same period. Since 2013, all income groups have been benefiting from this increase and in 2015, the lowest income decile began benefiting as well. Disposable income inequality ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
17/18/2020 (2020), 315-323
| Markus M. Grabka, Jan Goebel
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In recent years, historians have increasingly looked at social science data in their search for sources to study the transformation period. Researchers hope that a secondary analysis of this data will expand the existing sources. This expansion promises new perspectives, while simultaneously bringing new methodological challenges to the discipline. This article deals with both: 1. It uses a history ...
In:
Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej
15 (2019), 1, 72-91
| Kerstin Brückweh, Kathrin Zöller
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Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality schools because their parents differ in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that children are significantly less likely to enter the academic track if they come from low socio-economic status (SES) families, even after conditioning on prior measures ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2020,
(IZA DP No. 13387)
| Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Pia Pinger
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Loneliness has traditionally been studied on the individual level. This study is one of the first to systematically describe and explain differences in loneliness on a fine-grained regional level. Using data from the nationally representative German Socio-EconomicPanel Study (N = 17,602), we mapped the regional distribution of loneliness across Germany and examined whether regional differences in loneliness ...
In:
Social Psychological and Personality Science
12 (2021), 2, 147-155
| Susanne Buecker, Tobias Ebert, Friedrich M. Götz, Theresa Entringer, Maike Luhmann
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The aim of this paper is twofold: First, we implement and validate the famous Big Five model on personality traits in a rural developing country setting. Second, we provide micro level evidence that examines personality traits of rural households in Thailand and Vietnam. Using new representative individual level data, our results show that the Big Five model can be applied in a rural setting. Moreover, ...
Hannover:
Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Institute of Development and Agricultural Economics, Project TVSEP,
2019,
(TVSEP Working Papers 14)
| Dorothee Bühler, Rasadhika Sharma, Wiebke Stein
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Objective: We investigate the applicability of the Big Five model in rural Southeast Asia and thereby challenge recent concerns about the validity of the model in developing countries. Method: We use a novel data set on personality traits from rural Thailand and Vietnam (N = 3811 individuals). In our analysis, we (i) assess the factor structure of the data, (ii) test the internal consistency of the ...
In:
Journal of Personality
91 (2023), 6, 1364-1380
| Dorothee Bühler, Rasadhika Sharma, Wiebke Stein
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Aus ökonomischer Sicht können Ehen und langjährige Partnerschaften als informeller Versicherungsmechanismus verstanden werden. Dieser implizite Versicherungsvertrag ist jedoch nicht vollständig durchsetzbar, da jeder Partner die Beziehung beenden kann, z.B. auch dann wenn seine Unterstützung im Falle eines negativen Lebensereignisses benötigt wird. Ein Beispiel eines solchen negativen Lebensereignisses ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
190 (2021), 164-190
| Christian Bünnings, Lucas Hafner, Simon Reif, Harald Tauchmann
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This paper provides one of the first tests of adaptation to the complete set of residential transitions. We use long-run SOEP panel data and consider the impact of all housing transitions, whether or not they involve a change in housing tenure or geographical movement, on both life satisfaction and housing satisfaction. Controlling for individual characteristics, some residential transitions affect ...
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Review of Economics of the Household
21 (2023), 2, 645-672
| Andrew E. Clark, Luis Diaz-Serrano
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German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 1990 are commonly described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in East and West Germany were far from being randomly selected treatment and control groups. First, the later border is already visible in many socio-economic characteristics ...
In:
Journal of Economic Perspectives
34 (2020), 2, 143-171
| Sascha O. Becker, Lukas Mergele, Ludger Woessmann
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Using a new German individual data set, we investigate the influence on health with respect to personal traits measured by the Big Five, collegiality, commitment and job characteristics. Among the Big Five conscientiousness, agreeableness and emotional stability correlate positively with good health. Job characteristics like activities combined with substantial decision authority, no physically demanding ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2019,
(IZA DP No. 12597)
| Lutz Bellmann, Olaf Hübler