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Mature female entrepreneurs represent a non-traditional model of self-employed workers in both ways: in terms of gender and age. The transition into self-employment for women aged 45 years and older represents a topic of aging research that still tends to be overlooked. Previous studies found ambivalent results for the issue regarding motives and entrepreneurial pathways between former employmen or ...
In:
Frontiers in Sociology
7 (2022), 998230
| Laura Romeu Gordo, Justyna Stypińska, Annette Franke
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Although gains and losses are an integral part of human development, the experience of change and readjustment that often comes with major life events may be particularly influential for an individual's subjective aging experience and awareness of age-related change (AARC). Thus, this study focused on the role of life events in the domains of family and health for an individual's awareness ...
In:
Frontiers in Psychiatry
13 (2022), 954048
| Fiona S. Rupprecht, Serena Sabatini, Manfred Diehl, Denis Gerstorf, Roman Kaspar, Oliver K. Schilling, Hans-Werner Wahl
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The extent and complexity of climate change can hardly be described in a few words. However, for a large part of the scientific community, one thing is certain: the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly. Yet, we are still emitting too much compared to the economically optimal path. This thesis studies the political economy of climate change and contains three essays to understand this so-called ...
2022,
| Jakub Rybicki
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Can right-wing terrorism increase support for far-right populist parties, and if so, why? Exploiting quasi-random variation between successful and failed attacks across German municipalities, we find that successful attacks lead to significant increases in the vote share for the right-wing, populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party. Our results are predominantly observable in state (Bundesland) ...
London:
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR),
2023,
(CEPR Discussion Paper No. 17525 (v.2))
| Navid Sabet, Marius Liebald, Guido Friebel
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Time-stability of preferences is a crucial assumption in economics. We develop a novel test-retest method to examine the stability of risk preferences over time, while quantifying the importance of both idiosyncratic shocks and measurement error. Using eight large, representative datasets from developing and developed countries, we find risk preferences to be unstable in developing countries. In contrast, ...
Exeter:
University of Exeter,
2023,
(Department of Economics Discussion Papers 23/05)
| Nicolás Salamanca, Buly A. Cardak, Edwin Ip, Joe Vecci
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Objective: To examine how young adult women and men change their time for routine housework when moving out of the parental household. Background: From a life-course perspective, establishing an own household is one of the key markers of the transition to adulthood. Leaving home is associated with new liabilities concerning the organization of everyday life, including housework, and provides a new ...
2023,
(SocArXiv Papers)
| Florian Schulz, Marcel Raab
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Justice evaluations are proposed to provide a link between the objective level of inequality and the consequences at the individual and societal level. Available instruments, however, focus on the subjective perception of inequality and income distributions. In light of findings that subjective perceptions of inequality and income levels can be biased and subject to method effects, we present the newly ...
In:
PLOS ONE
18 (2023), 1, e0281021
| Désirée Nießen, Jule Adriaans, Stefan Liebig, Clemens M. Lechner
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The way women hold assets within couples (solely or jointly) is a crucial dimension of their economic situation. This study examines the distribution of women’s assets within married couples and how the interplay of their employment and marriage biographies is related to their asset holdings in later life. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP; 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017), the author applies ...
In:
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
79 (2022), 100690
| Theresa Nutz
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Purpose: To investigate how disability affects the levels of loneliness reported by people living in Germany. In particular, we are interested in analysing the transitions into and out of loneliness but incorporating a dynamic approach of disability (i.e., disability trajectories). Method: Drawing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 2013 and 2017 and using a three-item version of ...
In:
Disability and Rehabilitation
44 (2022), 12, 2733-2743
| Ricardo Pagan
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Many citizens are relatively dissatisfied with the democratic regimes they live in, which can be a threat to political stability. This paper reports empirical evidence that workers in firms with works councils are on average significantly more satisfied with the democracy as it exists in Germany than workers in firms without such a participatory workplace institution. This result holds in regressions ...
Lüneburg:
Leuphana University Lüneburg, Institute of Economics,
2023,
(University of Lüneburg Working Paper Series in Economics No. 420)
| Christian Pfeifer