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The wage weight penalty is a well-established finding in the literature, but not much is known about the mechanisms that bring this phenomenon about. This article aims to provide answers to the question of why overweight and obese people earn less. Using the data of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we conduct three theory-driven litmus tests for mechanisms that explain the weight wage gap: human capital ...
In:
European Sociological Review
34 (2018), 3, 254-267
| Christiane Bozoyan, Tobias Wolbring
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This paper uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 2000 to 2005 to study the earnings differential between self- and dependent employed German men. Constructing a counterfactual earnings distribution for the self-employed in dependent employment and using quantile regression decompositions we find that the earnings differential over the distribution cannot be explained by differences ...
Lüneburg:
University of Lüneburg,
2007,
(Working Paper Series in Economics No. 55)
| Nils Braakmann
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This paper considers the impact of adverse health shocks that hit an individual’s partner on subjective well-being. Using data on couples from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2006, I compare the losses in well-being caused by own and spousal disability using panel-regressions. I find that women and to a lesser extent men are harmed by spousal disability which is consistent with ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2009,
(SOEPpapers 194)
| Nils Braakmann
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This paper shows that differences in various non-cognitive traits, specifically the “big five”, positive and negative reciprocity, locus of control and risk aversion, contribute to gender inequalities in wages and employment. Using the 2004 and 2005 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel, evidence from regression and decomposition techniques suggests that gender differences in psychological traits ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2009,
(SOEPpapers 162)
| Nils Braakmann
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In this paper, I contrast the effects of individual and spousal disability on subjective wellbeing and labor supply using data on couples from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2006. I find that both men and women reduce their propensity to work when they or their partner become disabled. The effects of spousal disability are economically large. I find no evidence for hours and ...
In:
Review of Economics of the Household
12 (2014), 4, 717-736
| Nils Braakmann
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The majority of empirical studies makes use of the assumption of stable preferences in searching for a relationship between risk attitude and the decision to become and stay an entrepreneur. Yet empirical evidence on this relationship is limited. In this paper, we show that entry into entrepreneurship itself plays a decisive role in shaping risk preferences. We find that becoming self-employed is indeed ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2014,
(SOEPpapers 667)
| Matthias Brachert, Walter Hyll
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Empirical studies use the assumption of stability in individual risk attitudes when searching for a relationship between attitude to risk and the decision to become and survive as an entrepreneur. We show that risk attitudes do not remain stable but face endogenous adaption when starting a new business. This adaption is associated with entrepreneurial survival. The results show that entrepreneurs with ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2014,
(SOEPpapers 701)
| Matthias Brachert, Walter Hyll, Mirko Titze
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We consider the simultaneity bias when examining the effect of individual risk attitudes on entrepreneurship. We demonstrate that entry into self-employment is related to changes in risk attitudes. We further show that these changes are correlated with the probability to remain in entrepreneurship.
In:
Applied Economics Letters
24 (2017), 7, 477-480
| Matthias Brachert, Walter Hyll, Mirko Titze
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In:
Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv (ASTA)
80 (1996), 3, 285-298
| Klaus Brachmann, Andreas Stich, Mark Trede
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Luxemburg:
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS),
1993,
(Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 90)
| Bruce Bradbury