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Studies investigating the determinants of happiness show that unemployment causes high distress for most affected persons. Researchers conclude that the amount of this disutility demonstrates the involuntariness of unemployment. This paper applies the happiness research approach to German panel data in order to revive the underlying economic question of whether unemployment is voluntary or involuntary. ...
In:
KYKLOS
63 (2010), 3, 317-329
| Adrian Chadi
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In the modern welfare state, people who cannot make a living usually receive financial assistance from public funds. Accordingly, the so-called social work norm against living off other people is violated, which may be the reason why the unemployed are so unhappy. If so, however, labour market concepts based on the notion of promoting low-paid jobs that are subsidised if necessary with additional payments ...
In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch
132 (2012), 1, 1-26
| Adrian Chadi
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This paper argues that satisfaction data from surveys are biased by varying participant attitudes toward the interview itself. In this manner, interviewees in a German panel study report lower life satisfaction when there is evidence of transient influences like aversion. The empirical findings suggest that researchers of well-being should consider interview-specific factors in order to avoid drawing ...
In:
Economics Bulletin
32 (2012), 4, 3111-3119
| Adrian Chadi
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This note examines a common explanation why participants of panel surveys may report declining life satisfaction over time. In line with the argument of developing trust relationships between interviewers and interviewees, the analysis reveals positive effects in reported life satisfaction when the person conducting the interview changes to an unfamiliar individual. Yet, the evidence also shows that ...
In:
Economics Letters
121 (2013), 3, 550-554
| Adrian Chadi
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As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to better understand which variables influence the first hiring decision and which ones influence the subsequent survival as an employer. Using the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP), we analyze what role individual characteristics of entrepreneurs play in sustainable job creation. ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2019,
(SOEPpapers 1061)
| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
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This article extends previous research about the determinants of reservation wages by analysing the effect of progressive income taxation on the ratio between reservation and net market wages. Based on micro data for Germany Socio-Economic-Panel (SOEP) we show that joint income taxation in Germany which discriminates by marital status, has a strong and highly significant impact on the reservation/market ...
In:
Applied Economics Letters
16 (2009), 9, 877 - 883
| Marco Caliendo, Ludovica Gambaro, Peter Haan
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This paper applies semiparametric regression models to shed light on the relationship between body weight and labor market outcomes in Germany. We find conclusive evidence that these relationships are poorly described by linear or quadratic OLS specifications, which have been the main approaches in previous studies. Women’s wages and employment probabilities do not follow a linear relationship and ...
In:
Economics & Human Biology
23 (2016), December 2016, 209-225
| Marco Caliendo, Markus Gehrsitz
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Entrepreneurial persistence is demonstrated by an entrepreneur’s continued positive maintenance of entrepreneurial motivation and constantly renewed active engagement in a new business venture despite counterforces or enticing alternatives. It thus is a crucial factor for entrepreneurs when pursuing and exploiting their business opportunities and in realizing potential economic gains and benefits. ...
In:
Journal of Small Business Management
58 (2020), 3, 617-647
| Marco Caliendo, Maximilian Goethner, Martin Weißenberger
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Fostering and supporting start-up businesses by unemployed persons has become an increasingly important issue in many European countries. These new ventures are being subsidized by various governmental programs. Empirical evidence on skillcomposition, direct job creation and other key variables is rather scarce, largely because of inadequate data availability. We base our analysis on unique survey ...
In:
Small Business Economics
35 (2010), 1, 71-92
| Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos
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This paper focuses on re-examining the gender wage gap and the potential role that reservation wages play. Based on two waves of rich data from the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey we examine the importance of gender differences in reservation wages to explain the gender gap in realized wages for a sample of newly unemployed individuals actively searching for a full-time job in Germany. The dataset includes ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2014,
(IZA DP No. 8305)
| Marco Caliendo, Wang-Sheng Lee, Robert Mahlstedt