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Previous studies have shown that women suffer less from unemployment than men in terms of subjective well-being. However, there is little research that aims to test possible explanations for this gender-specific reaction. We distinguish two different ways in which unemployment reduces well-being, namely the financial and non-financial effects of becoming unemployed. Gender differences in both types ...
In:
European Sociological Review
39 (2023), 2, 301-316
| Stefanie Heyne, Jonas Voßemer
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Does competition affect moral behavior? This fundamental question has been debated among leading scholars for centuries, and more recently, it has been tested in experimental studies yielding a body of rather inconclusive empirical evidence. A potential source of ambivalent empirical results on the same hypothesis is design heterogeneity—variation in true effect sizes across various reasonable experimental ...
In:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
120 (2023), 23, e2215572120
| Christoph Huber, Anna Dreber, Jürgen Huber, Magnus Johannesson, Michael Kirchler, et al.
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Donations and unpaid working are two important forms of non-market activities that are usually considered separately in the literature. The purpose of this paper is to empirically test hypotheses on determinants of giving to organizations. In particular, the importance of voluntary work for giving behavior is examined in comparison to other unpaid activities. In addition, the aim is to find out whether ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2023,
(IZA DP No. 16142)
| Olaf Hübler
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Abstract Since the 1980s inflationary pressures seem to materialise over-proportionately outside sectors of consumer goods and services. We combine the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices with indices for asset prices, such as stocks and real estate, as well as a proxy for the costs of public goods to develop alternative inflation measures in Germany since the introduction of the Euro. Real economic ...
In:
The World Economy
47 (2024), 2, 618-636
| Karl-Friedrich Israel, Gunther Schnabl
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We study the local evolution of female labour supply and cultural norms in West Germany in reaction to the sudden presence of East Germans who migrated to the West after reunification. These migrants grew up with high rates of maternal employment, whereas West German families mostly followed the traditional breadwinner-housewife model. We find that West German women increase their labour supply and ...
In:
The Economic Journal
134 (2024), 659, 1146–1172
| Jonas Jessen, Sophia Schmitz, Felix Weinhardt
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The COVID-19 pandemic and related closures of day care centres and schools significantly increased the amount of care work done by parents. There has been much speculation over whether the pandemic increased or decreased gender equality in parental care work. Based on representative data for Germany from spring 2020 and winter 2021 we present an empirical analysis that shows that although gender inequality ...
In:
German Economic Review
23 (2022), 4, 641-667
| Jonas Jessen, C. Katharina Spiess, Sevrin Waights, Katharina Wrohlich
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Decades of evidence point to the vital role of parents in shaping their children’s partisan leanings, particularly concerning mainstream parties. And yet the contours of intergenerational influence remain quite obscured. For instance, scholars disagree on when social learning in the household occurs (childhood vs adolescence) and about who is the dominant socializer (mother vs father). Data from a ...
In:
Political Studies
72 (2024), 2, 634-651
| Jennifer Fitzgerald, Pavel Bacovsky
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Intuition is a central element of entrepreneurial decision-making. We conceptually replicate a published study by using new representative data from 1961 adults and the widely used Cognitive Reflection Test, which assesses the ability to avoid intuitive decisions and to switch to an analytical process. We extend the analysis by exploring occupational sorting versus environmental influence as mechanisms, ...
In:
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
48 (2024), 4, 1082-1109
| Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neyse
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Abstract International trade in services has increased significantly in recent decades, mainly due to innovations in information and communication technology. This development has also increased the importance of service offshoring, as companies spread their production processes across several countries. This paper examines the intensity of offshoring of specific tasks of occupations, which in turn ...
In:
The World Economy
47 (2024), 4, 1615-1641
| Michael Frenkel, Ngoc Tuyet Ngo
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The literature on the effects of incentives in survey research is vast and covers a diversity of survey modes. The mode of probability-based online panels, however, is still young and so is research into how to best recruit sample units into the panel. This paper sheds light on the effectiveness of a specific type of incentive in this context: a monetary incentive that is paid conditionally upon panel ...
In:
Social Science Computer Review
41 (2023), 2, 370-389
| Sabine Friedel, Barbara Felderer, Ulrich Krieger, Carina Cornesse, Annelies G. Blom