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This article examines the evolution of the gender wealth gap in Germany during the first decade of the XXI century. This period is characterized by an increase in labour supply of women and change in occupational structure due to numerous reforms undertaken by the government. We use the Firpo, Fortin, Lemieux detailed decomposition technique throughout the wealth distribution to identify the main factors ...
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B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
24 (2024), 4, 1045–1071
| Eva Sierminska, Daniela Piazzalunga, Markus Grabka
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Background: If a new job is located in a different region from the place of residence, individuals or households can choose between moving or commuting. However, so far mobility alternatives and their drivers remain under-researched from a comparative perspective. Objective: We investigate the determinants of the mobility choices of individuals who have taken a distant job (50 km or more), considering ...
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Demographic Research
50 (2024), 33, 967-1004
| Thomas Skora, Heiko Rüger, Knut Petzold
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This study investigates the impact of sexual orientation on earnings in the German labour market. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel survey from the year 2020, I analyse wage differentials between heterosexual and non-heterosexual workers. The findings reveal that nonheterosexual men earn approximately 7.7%less than their heterosexual counterparts, while lesbian or bisexual women experience a ...
2024,
| Jiayi Song
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Background. Quantifying spatial access to care—the interplay of accessibility and availability—is vital for healthcare planning and understanding implications of services (mal-)distribution. A plethora of methods aims to measure potential spatial access to healthcare services. The current study conducts a systematic review to identify and assess gravity model-type methods for spatial healthcare access ...
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International Journal of Health Geographics
22 (2023), 1, 34
| Barbara Stacherl, Odile Sauzet
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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 ...
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Current Issues in Tourism
28 (2025), 22, 3636–3660
| 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’ ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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) ...
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Comparative Population Studies
49 (2024),
| Flavia Mazzeo, Christine Schwartz, Stefani Scherer, Agnese Vitali