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This article examines the link between immigrants’ social capital and their labour market access (employment) and success (occupational status) in Germany and contributes to previous research in two ways. Firstly, based on insights from theories of social capital and immigrant integration, we overcome the mere distinction between inter- and intra-ethnic ties. Instead, we approximate resources immigrants ...
In:
Comparative Migration Studies
12 (2024), 1, 7
| Julia Rüdel, Jan-Philip Steinmann
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Previous work found that laboratory lotteries used to reveal people’s risk preferences are less stable and predictive of realworld risk taking than survey-based stated preferences. How can stated preferences, often criticized as “cheap talk,” be so informative? Together with Max Planck Fellow Gert G. Wagner, researchers from the Center for Adaptive Rationality have investigated this question in a study ...
Berlin:
Max Planck Institute for Human Development,
2023,
(Spotlight 2023 Research Report Magazine)
| o.V.
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This study examines the relationship between personality traits (using the Big Five-Factor model, BFF), and participation and its intensity in holiday trips for German people without and with moderate and severe disabilities. Namely, this study investigates the contribution of the BFF model to understanding this relationship among travellers with different degrees of disability, and fills a gap in ...
In:
Current Issues in Tourism
(online first) (2024), 1-25
| Ricardo Pagan
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We study how voters’ preferences between a safe incumbent and a risky opponent change in the aftermath of a negative aggregate shock. With reference-dependent preferences, economically disappointed voters become risk lovers, and are hence attracted by the more risky candidate. Survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are consistent with our assumptions and theoretical predictions on voters’ ...
In:
The Economic Journal
134 (2024), 663, 3047-3061
| Fausto Panunzi, Nicola Pavoni, Guido Tabellini
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The qualities of trainees play a key role in entrustment decisions by clinical supervisors for the assignments of professional tasks and levels of supervision. A recent body of qualitative research has shown that in addition to knowledge and skills, a number of personality traits are relevant in the workplace; however, the relevance of these traits has not been investigated empirically. The aim of ...
In:
BMC Medical Education
24 (2024), 1, 453
| Harm Peters, Amelie Garbe, Simon M. Breil, Sebastian Oberst, Susanne Selch, Ylva Holzhausen
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Most unretirement research has focused on single countries, indicating that socio-economic advantage and financial need predict unretirement in particular settings. Remarkably, little is known about whether the frequency and predictors of unretirement—returning to paid work after ceasing work at retirement—vary in relation to the country setting. We followed recent retirees over time in Germany, Russia, ...
In:
Work, Aging and Retirement
(online first) (2024),
| Loretta G Platts, Karen Glaser
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In times of economic crisis, many employers in liberal labor markets reduce their employees’ working hours, which leads to an increase in the incidence of involuntary part-time work. We analyze the effectiveness of working time regulation in preventing such an increase during downswings. For this we look at the case of Germany, where hours adjustments are highly restricted by law. Using a state-level ...
In:
Journal for Labour Market Research
58 (2024), 1, 5
| Theresa Markefke, Rebekka Müller-Rehm
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Couples in which wives have more education than their husbands have been found to be more likely than other couples to divorce. But this relationship varies across time and place. We compare the relationship between spouses’ relative education and marital dissolution across four birth cohorts born between 1951 and 1990 in East and West Germany using 37 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984-2021) ...
In:
Comparative Population Studies
49 (2024),
| Flavia Mazzeo, Christine Schwartz, Stefani Scherer, Agnese Vitali
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DIW focus / 2025
Stock market participation among working household heads jumped upwards in 2020 – in Germany by about 25%. A major cause is the required use of work from home (WfH). We show this by repeating a benchmark study and adding WfH to the explanatory variables. Moreover, we implement an instrumental variables estimation based on industry-specific levels of WfH-capacity. The transmission channels seem to work ...
2025| Lorenz Meister, Lukas Menkhoff, Carsten Schröder
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Stock market participation among working household heads jumped upwards in the year 2020, in Germany by about 25%. A major cause is the required use of work from home (WfH). We show this by repeating a benchmark study with demanding data requests and adding WfH to the explanatory variables. Moreover, we implement an instrumental variables estimation based on industry-specific levels of WfH-capacity. ...
Kiel, Hamburg:
2024,
| Lorenz Meister, Lukas Menkhoff, Carsten Schröder