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We investigate the relationship between characteristics of an occupation-specific environment and the decision of employees to start an own business. A relatively high occupation-specific unemployment risk and high earnings risk are conducive to opt for self-employment. Also, occupations that are characterized by high self-employment rates foster entrepreneurial choice among their employees. The results ...
In:
Small Business Economics
51 (2018), 1, 129-152
| Alina Sorgner, Michael Fritsch
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A positive correlation between couple relationships and health is well established. However, recent studies indicate that the beneficial effects of couple relationships on health vary substantially according to the characteristics of the relationship and of the partners involved. The present paper examines to what extent partnership effects on physical and mental health differ based on the individual's ...
In:
Zeitschrift für Familienforschung
31 (2019), 2, 138-154
| Johannes Stauder, Ingmar Rapp, Thomas Klein
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The determinants of domain satisfactions could be differently evaluated depending on the aspect of life considered, which would lead to different implications for public policies. To test this hypothesis, using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we analyse the effect of different economic and non-economic factors on satisfaction with financial situation, job and health status. The main results ...
In:
Societies
9 (2019), 2, 34
| María Navarro
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Purpose: Subjective social status (SSS) reflects individuals' perceived position in a social hierarchy. Low SSS is associated with several mental health impairments. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to examine if unemployed individuals report lower SSS in Germany (national SSS) and lower SSS in their social community (local SSS) than employed individuals. Moreover, the relationship between ...
In:
Psychology Research and Behavior Management
12 (2019), 557-564
| Marie Neubert, Philipp Süssenbach, Winfried Rief, Frank Euteneuer
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The digit ratio (2D:4D) is considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero, and there has been a recent surge of studies testing whether 2D:4D is associated with economic preferences. Although the results are not conclusive, previous studies have reported statistically significant correlations between 2D:4D and risk taking, altruism, positive reciprocity, negative reciprocity and trust. Many “researcher ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
185 (2021), May 2021, 390-401
| Levent Neyse, Magnus Johannesson, Anna Dreber
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Prenatal androgens have organizational effects on brain and endocrine system development, which may have a partial impact on economic decisions. Numerous studies have investigated the relationship between prenatal testosterone and financial risk taking, yet results remain inconclusive. We suspect that this is due to difficulty in capturing risk preferences with expected utility based tasks. Prospect ...
In:
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
60 (2020), 1, 29-51
| Levent Neyse, Ferdinand M. Vieider, Patrick Ring, Catharina Probst, Christian Kaernbach, Thilo van Eimeren, Ulrich Schmidt
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We investigate patterns of assortative matching on risk attitude, using self-reported (ordinal) data on risk attitudes for males and females within married couples, from the German Socio-Economic Panel over the period 2004–2012. We apply a novel copula-based bivariate panel ordinal model. Estimation is in two steps: first, a copula-based Markov model is used to relate the marginal distribution of the ...
In:
Economic Inquiry
57 (2019), 1, 654-666
| Aristidis K. Nikoloulopoulos, Peter G. Moffatt
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We provide a new identification strategy to analyse the implications of religious affiliation on unhealthful behaviour by focusing on the link between religiousness and smoking. Our quasi-experimental research design exploits the exogenous dramatic fall in religious affiliation that took place in East Germany after the post-war separation. Our conditional difference-in-differences estimates on data ...
In:
SSM - Population Health
8 (2019), 100412
| Luca Nunziata, Veronica Toffolutti
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Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this article examines whether gender wage differentials occur due to differences in prototypical personality traits of women and men and provides the first application of a gender wage gap decomposition on the basis of a correlated random effects model. Main results show that agreeableness and openness are the most important personality ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1078)
| Sina Otten
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The spread of computer technology in West German industry during the 1980s and 1990s dramatically changed the demand for skilled and unskilled work in manufacturing. As a result the knowledge used in production was redefined and reformers pushed for radical reform in vocational and general education. In these decades a corporate agreement across trade unions, associations of employers and state bureaucracy ...
In:
German History
37 (2019), 3, 359-373
| Lutz Raphael