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Does self-employment really raise job satisfaction? Adaptation and anticipation effects on self-employment and general job changes

Empirical analyses using cross-sectional and panel data found significantly higher levels of job satisfaction for the self-employed than for employees. We argue that by neglecting anticipation and adaptation effects estimates in previous studies might be misleading. To test this, we specify models accounting for anticipation and adaptation to self-employment and general job changes. In contrast to ...

Quality of Income Data in Household Panels with Respect to Rounding and Use of Income Brackets

Rounding of Income Data: An Empirical Analysis of the Quality of Income Data with Respect to Rounded Values and Income Brackets with Data from the European Community Household Panel (Schriften zur empirischen Wirtschaftsforschung, Band 9) (Dissertation)

Income questions are frequently answered with rounded values or income brackets. This has an impact on the quality of data, which is demonstrated for the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). A matching of register and interview data for the Finnish sub-sample of the ECHP allows an analysis of the measurement error caused by rounding with regard to cross-sectional ...

Quality of Income Data from Panel Surveys with Respect to Rounding

Household Labor Demand and Household Labor Supply

Changes in Child Care Could Reduce Job Options for Eastern German Mothers

The Employment of Domestic Help and Women's Labor Force Participation in Western Germany

Regional Social Contexts and Fertility in Western Germany: A Multilevel Approach (Dissertation)

The Geographic Context of Male Nuptiality in Western Germany During the 1980s and 1990s

This paper studies the relationship between characteristics of men’s place of residence and the probability of entering marriage in western Germany during the 1980s and 1990s. We link micro-information from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) with district-level data to estimate discrete-time multilevel logit models. Our results support the widely accepted idea about the importance of men’s ...

Regional Social Contexts and Individual Fertility Decisions: A Multilevel Analysis of First and Second Births in Western Germany