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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 ...
In:
International Review of Financial Analysis
107 (2025), November 2025, 104604
| 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
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Change in the work context is an important characteristic of product-innovating firms, and the innovation's profitability often depends on the workers’ adaptive capability to cope with change. Personality traits shape the individual adaptive capability. Nevertheless, the current economic recruitment literature does not discuss personality trait-oriented recruitment in product-innovating firms. ...
In:
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
112 (2024), 102267
| Luisa Minssen, Mark Levels, Harald Pfeifer, Caroline Wehner
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The objective of universal health care systems is to achieve equality in the use of health services at the same level of care need. This study evaluates the relationship of socioeconomic position with the frequency of doctor visits in subjects with and without chronic diseases in Germany and Spain. The dependent variables included number of consultations and if a medical consultation occurred. The ...
In:
International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services
54 (2024), 2, 121-130
| Almudena Moreno, Lourdes Lostao, Stefanie Sperlich, Johannes Beller, Elena Ronda, Siegfried Geyer, Enrique Regidor
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The aim of this visualization is to describe justice evaluations of income inequality from a cross-country perspective for more than 72,000 respondents in 29 countries. The analyses were based on data from two large, cross-country survey programs. The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) asked for an evaluation of the overall income distribution, and the European Social Survey (ESS) asked for ...
In:
Socius
9 (2023),
| Cristóbal Moya, Jule Adriaans, Carsten Sauer
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Objectives: This study analyses waiting times for elective surgeries and potential determinants, including supplementary private health insurance, visits in the operating physician's private practice and informal payments for faster treatment. Study design: Retrospective patient questionnaire survey. Methods: The survey was conducted in eleven Austrian rehabilitation centres in 2019. Data was ...
In:
Public Health
236 (2024), 216-223
| Markus Kraus, Barbara Stacherl, Thomas Czypionka, Susanne Mayer
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Cognitive abilities are associated with key preferences and socio-economic outcomes. One of the most frequently studied cognitive abilities is cognitive reflection, the ability to avoid intuitive but potentially wrong decisions by switching to a more analytical mindset. Using rich panel data in this pre-registered study, we show that stronger cognitive reflection is significantly associated with more ...
In:
Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics
3 (2025), 2, 303–343
| Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neyse, Carsten Schröder
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This dissertation intends to gain insights into the careers of junior academics. In more detail, the work addresses the following general research questions: (i) What career goals do doctoral candidates from the STEM disciplines pursue and what factors are associated with the academic career goal of becoming a professor and with non-academic career goals of becoming a manager or an entrepreneur? (ii) ...
2021,
| Irina Frei
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This study examines how being a tied or lead mover relates to the ethnic identity of migrant spouses. Tied and lead movers differ in their migration motivations, face different constraints, and opportunities (e.g., social network through work). This is likely to be reflected in different investment strategies and adjustment patterns in the host country. To study the adjustment of tied and lead movers, ...
In:
Review of Economics of the Household
(2024),
| Teresa Freitas-Monteiro
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Asylum seekers migrating from developing countries to Europe frequently experience victimization events during their journey. The consequences for their economic integration into destination countries are not yet well explored. In this paper, we analyze how victimization during asylum seekers’ journey affects their economic integration in Germany using survey data collected in the aftermath of the ...
2021,
| Teresa Freitas-Monteiro, Lars Ludolph