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This study examines the accumulation of personal wealth of husbands and wives and investigates the development of within-couple wealth inequalities over time in marriage. Going beyond previous research that mostly studied the marriage wealth premium using household-level wealth data and that conceptualized marriage as an instantaneous transition with uniform consequences over time, we argue that entry ...
In:
European Sociological Review
36 (2020), 4, 580-593
| Nicole Kapelle, Philipp M. Lersch
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In this study, we investigate how the attitude of natives—defined as the perceived trustworthiness of citizens from different countries—affects immigrants’ labor market outcomes in Germany. Evidence in the literature suggests that barriers to economic assimilation might be higher for some groups of immigrants, but the role of natives’ heterogeneous attitudes toward immigrants from different countries ...
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Demography
56 (2019), 3, 1023-1050
| Sekou Keita, Jérôme Valette
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A proper family house is for many a self-owned house with a private garden in a purely residential area. We analyse the relevance of having grown up in a parental home with a garden and in close proximity to green spaces for moving into a detached or terraced house for one or two families, whether rented or bought, which we call a “family house.” Simultaneously, we analyse whether the same predictors ...
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Population, Space and Place
26 (2020), 2, e2299
| Stefanie Kley, Anna Stenpaß
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Purpose: Individual differences in the development of perceived job insecurity among young workers may be influenced by characteristics of the first job (contract type and sector) and individual background (education and previous unemployment), and can have implications for subsequent health and well-being. The aim of this study was to investigate the development of perceived job insecurity during ...
In:
International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health
92 (2019), 6, 901-918
| Katharina Klug, Claudia Bernhard-Oettel, Anne Mäkikangas, Ulla Kinnunen, Magnus Sverke
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A stylized finding on returns to vocational education is that vocational compared to general education generates a differential life course pattern of employability: while vocational education guarantees smooth transitions into the labour market and thus generates initial advantages, these erode with increasing age, leading to late-life reversals in employment chances. We contribute to this research ...
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Social Inclusion
7 (2019), 3, 224-253
| Fabian Kratz, Alexander Patzina, Corinna Kleinert, Hans Dietrich
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I investigate how the German income tax code affects the timing of marriages. The German income tax code allows married couples to benefit from full income splitting relative to unmarried couples. If their individual incomes differ, legally married couples may benefit from jointly filing their income taxes and thus fully splitting their incomes because of increasing marginal tax rates. The gain from ...
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Applied Economics
52 (2020), 5, 475-489
| Alexander Fink
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The 2D: 4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the second finger to the length of the fourth finger, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study reported, among other things, an association between the left-hand 2D:4D and self-employment in a sample of 974 adults. In this preregistered study, we replicate the 2D:4D results on a sample of more than 2100 adults ...
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Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
46 (2022), 1, 21-43
| Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neyse, Magnus Johannesson, Anna Dreber
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Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one observed in the data, which is mainly due to large positive selection of women into full-time employment. ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1070)
| Patricia Gallego Granados, Katharina Wrohlich
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The availability of childcare is a crucial factor for mothers’ labour force participation. While most of the literature examines childcare for preschool children, we specifically focus on primary school-aged children, estimating the effect of formal afternoon care on maternal labour supply. To do so, we use a novel matching technique, entropy balancing, and draw on the rich and longitudinal data of ...
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Empirical Economics
57 (2019), 3, 769-803
| Ludovica Gambaro, Jan Marcus, Frauke Peter
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Does the geographical concentration of ethnic minorities influence their descriptive representation in closed-list systems? Counterintuitive to the idea that single-member district electoral rules are necessary for minorities’ geographical representation, we argue that, in closed-list systems, parties are incentivised to allocate promising list positions to those minority candidates who are based in ...
In:
International Political Science Review
40 (2019), 5, 643-658
| Lucas Geese, Diana Schacht