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Based on a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent the personality of individuals influences the entry decision into and the exit decision from self-employment. We reveal that some traits, such as openness to experience, extraversion, and risk tolerance affect entry, but different ones, such as agreeableness or different parameter values of risk tolerance, affect ...
In:
Small Business Economics
42 (2014), 4, 787-814
| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
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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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This article links representative enrollee panel data to health plan data on (1) prices, (2) service quality, and (3) nonessential benefits for the German statutory multipayer market and the years 2007–2010. We first show that although heavy federal regulation ensures a simple choice architecture, the majority of health plans are dominated—even when considering four nonprice attributes. Enrollees in ...
In:
Journal of Risk and Insurance
86 (2019), 2, 415-449
| Christian Bünnings, Hendrik Schmitz, Harald Tauchmann, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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The coexistence of social health insurance and private health insurance in Germany is subject to intense public debate. As only few have the opportunity to choose between the two systems, they are often regarded as privileged by the health insurance system. Applying a hazard model in discrete time, this paper examines the role of incentives set by the regulatory framework as well as the influence of ...
In:
Health Economics
24 (2015), 10, 1331-1347
| Christian Bünnings, Harald Tauchmann
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Calculations based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) show that after the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany in January 2015, the wage growth of eligible employees with low wages accelerated significantly. Before the reform, the nominal growth in contractual hourly wages in the lowest decile, the bottom tenth of the pay distribution, was less than two percent in the long-term ...
In:
DIW Economic Bulletin
84 (2017), 49, 509-522
| Patrick Burauel, Marco Caliendo, Alexandra Fedorets, Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder, Jürgen Schupp, Linda Wittbrodt
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This paper evaluates the short-run impact of the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany on the hourly wages and monthly earnings of workers targeted by the reform. We first provide detailed descriptive evidence of changes to the wage structure in particular at the bottom of the distribution and distinguish between trends for regularly employed and marginally employed workers. In the causal ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
240 (2020), 2-3, 201-231
| Patrick Burauel, Marco Caliendo, Markus M. Grabka, Cosima Obst, Malte Preuss, Carsten Schröder, Cortnie Shupe
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We use the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to show that personal relationships which individuals maintain for noneconomic reasons can be an important determinant of regional economic growth. We show that West German households who had social ties to East Germany in 1989 experienced a persistent rise in their personal incomes after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Moreover, the presence of these households ...
In:
Quarterly Journal of Economics
128 (2013), 3, 1219-1271
| Konrad B. Burchardi, Tarek Alexander Hassan