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In:
Proceedings of the 1996 Second International Conference of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study Users. Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung
66 (1997), 1, 159-168
| Wolfgang Seifert
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In:
European Journal of Population
13 (1997), 1, 1-16
| Wolfgang Seifert
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In:
Peter H. Schuck, Rainer Münz ,
Paths to Inclusion - The Integration of Migrants in the United States and Germany
New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books
83-113
| Wolfgang Seifert
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The goal of behavioural economics is to improve classic microeconomic theory by introducing motives and concepts from related fields like psychology and sociology. The driving paradigm of most neo-classical economic research is the concept of the Homo Oeconomicus, a human who approaches all problems in a rational and typically selfish way and who possesses boundless computational power and flawless ...
2011,
| Mirko Seithe
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Purpose To compare the general and health-related life satisfaction (LS) in long-term survivors of adolescent cancer with a community sample and to identify medical and psychosocial factors associated with LS. Methods LS of 820 survivors (ageM = 30.4 ± 6.0 years; time since diagnosis M = 13.7 ± 6.0 years) was assessed with the Questions on Life Satisfaction (FLZM) and compared to an age- and sex-matched ...
In:
Quality of Life Research
20 (2011), 2, 225-236
| Diana C. M. Seitz, Daniela Hagmann, Tanja Besier, Ute Dieluweit, Klaus-Michael Debatin, Desiree Grabow, Peter Kaatsch, Gerhard Henrich, Lutz Goldbeck
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This paper provides a new examination of the gender pay gap for Germany based on a family of distribution-sensitive indicators. Wage distributions for men and women do not only differ by a fixed constant; differences are more complex. We show that focusing on the bottom of the wage distribution reveals a larger gender gap. Our distribution-sensitive analysis can also be used to study whether the statistical ...
In:
Journal of Economic Inequality
14 (2016), 1, 21-40
| Ekaterina Selezneva, Philippe Van Kerm
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The recently published data from the Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) has revealed that Germany ranks lowest among the OECD countries for educational equalities. This paper examines whether it is the tracking of children into different types of school environments at a particularly early stage of their intellectual development, i.e. at the transition from primary to secondary school, ...
Florence:
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre,
2002,
(Innocenti Working Paper No. 92)
| Sylke Viola Schnepf
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Contributing to a growing literature on sibling correlations, this paper is the first to present results for Germany. On the basis of data from the GSOEP, around one third of the variance or inequality in permanent earnings for men and around one fourth for women can be attributed to family characteristics during childhood. This indicates a slightly lower influence of family on women’s outcomes. The ...
Philadelphia:
2010,
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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Around 37 percent of those in paid full-time employment in Germany did not claim their full vacation entitlement last year. The number of vacation days actually taken by each employee was on average three days less than the full entitlement. This equates to around twelve percent of the overall volume of vacation entitlement not being used. This figure is corroborated by data from the German Socio-Economic ...
In:
DIW Economic Bulletin
2 (2012), 2, 25-31
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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Based on brother correlations in permanent earnings for different groups of second generation immigrants, the findings in this paper indicate that cultural background is not a major determinant of the level of intergenerational economic mobility.
In:
Economics Letters
114 (2012), 3, 335-337
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein