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In:
Werner Eichhorst, Paul Marx ,
Non-Standard Employment in Post-Industrial Labour Markets: An Occupational Perspective
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
353-378
| Martina Dieckhoff, Vanessa Gash, Antje Mertens, Laura Romeu-Gordo
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Improving energy efficiency is one of the three pillars of the European energy and climate targets for 2020 and has led to the introduction of several policy measures to promote energy efficiency. The paper analyzes the effectiveness of subsidies in increasing energy efficiency in residential dwellings. An empirical analysis is conducted in which the effectiveness of subsidies on the number of dwelling ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2012,
(SOEPpapers 527)
| Caroline Dieckhöner
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In:
Hanspeter Kriesi, Peter Farago, Martin Kohli, Milad Zarin-Nejadan ,
Contemporary Switzerland. Revisiting the Special Case
New York: Palgrave Macmillan
190-217
| Andreas Dieckmann, Ben Jann
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This paper examines the impact of students' non-cognitive skills locus of control and self-esteem on their decision to enroll at college, and on their wages once they enter the labour market. We extend previous research in several ways: a model of belief formation suggests a pathway by which these traits affect economic outcomes and allows to derive testable predictions concerning individuals' ...
2013,
| Nina Hestermann
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German Socio-Economic Panel data is used to show that the decrease in life satisfaction caused by an increase in the probability of losing work is higher when self-employed than when paid employed. Further estimations reveal that becoming unemployed reduces selfemployed workers’ satisfaction considerably more than salaried workers’ satisfaction. These results indicate that losing self-employment is ...
In:
Small Business Economics
47 (2016), 2, 461-478
| Clemens Hetschko
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Using German panel data, we show that unemployed people are, on average, less satisfied with their life than employed people, but they report a substantial increase in their life satisfaction upon retirement. We interpret this finding using identity theory. Retirement raises the identity utility of the unemployed because it changes the social norms they are supposed to adhere to. The social norm for ...
In:
Economic Journal
124 (2014), 575, 149-166
| Clemens Hetschko, Andreas Knabe, Ronnie Schöb
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Previous studies find that past unemployment reduces life satisfaction even after reemployment for non-monetary reasons (unemployment scarring). It is not clear, however, whether this scarring is only caused by employment-related factors, such as worsened working conditions, or increased future uncertainty as regards income and employment. Using German panel data, we identify non-employment-related ...
In:
Demography
56 (2019), 3, 1105-1129
| Clemens Hetschko, Andreas Knabe, Ronnie Schöb
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Using German panel data, we assess the causal effect of job loss, and thus of an extensive income shock, on risk attitude. In line with predictions of expected utility reasoning about absolute risk aversion, losing one’s job reduces the willingness to take risks. This effect strengthens in previous hourly wage, begins to manifest itself as soon as an employee perceives the threat of job loss and is ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2015,
(SOEPpapers 813)
| Clemens Hetschko, Malte Preuss
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This work contributes to the literature demonstrating an important role for psychological traits in labor market decisions. We show that West German workers with an internal locus of control sort into jobs with performance appraisals. Appraisals provide workers who believe they control their environment a tool to demonstrate their value and achieve their goals. We confirm that workers who are risk ...
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 142 (2017), October 2017, 205-225| John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn, Cornelia Struewing
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In:
International Economic Journal
19 (2005), 2, 235-250
| John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn, Georgi Tsertsvadse