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Interview
Mr. Giesselmann, you studied how eligible voters in Germany judge the importance of various policy goals in 2013 and again at the beginning of this year. Which policy goals appeared in your survey?
We asked questions about direct economic aspects, including per capita income as well as indicators of income and wealth. Secondly, we asked about social aspects such as the employment rate, education rate, ...
02.03.2017
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Very few genetic variants have been associated with depression and neuroticism, likely because of limitations on sample size in previous studies. Subjective well-being, a phenotype that is genetically correlated with both of these traits, has not yet been studied with genome-wide data. We conducted genome-wide association studies of three phenotypes: subjective well-being (n = 298,420), depressive ...
In:
Nature Genetics
48 (2016), 6, S. 624-632
| Aysu Okbay, Bart M. L. Baselmans, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Peter Eibich, Gert G. Wagner ...
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SOEPpapers 445 / 2012
Perceived control is an important variable for various demands involved in successful aging. However, perceived control is not set in stone, but rather changes throughout the life course. The aim of this study was to identify cross-sectional age differences and longitudinal mean-level changes as well as rank-order changes in perceived control with respect to sex and education. Furthermore, changes ...
2012| Jule Specht, Boris Egloff, Stefan C. Schmukle
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SOEPpapers 776 / 2015
This paper investigates the influence of political regimes on personality, using the separation of Germany into the socialist GDR and the democratic FRG and its reunification in 1990 as a natural experiment. We show that there are significant differences between former GDR and FRG residents regarding important attributes of personality (particularly the locus of control, neuroticism, conscientiousness, ...
2015| Tim Friehe, Markus Pannenberg, Michael Wedow
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The level of trust inherent in a society is important for a wide range of microeconomic and macroeconomic outcomes. This paper investigates how individuals' attitudes toward social and institutional trust are shaped by the political regime in which they live. The German reunification is a unique natural experiment that allows us to conduct such a study. Using data from the German General Social Survey ...
In:
Journal of Comparative Economics
37 (2009), 2, S. 251-269
| Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler
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Diskussionspapiere 609 / 2006
The level of trust inherent in a society is important for a wide range of microeconomic and macroeconomic outcomes. This paper investigates how individuals' attitudes toward social and institutional trust are shaped by the political regime in which they live. The German reunification is a unique natural experiment that allows us to conduct such a study. Using data from the German General Social Survey ...
2006| Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler
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Externe Monographien
Bonn:
IZA,
2006,
29 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 2154)
| Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler
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Diskussionspapiere 1829 / 2019
As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to better understand which variables influence the first hiring decision and which ones influence the subsequent survival as an employer. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we analyze what role individual characteristics of entrepreneurs play in sustainable job creation. ...
2019| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
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Externe Monographien
As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to better understand which variables influence the first hiring decision and which ones influence the subsequent survival as an employer. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we analyze what role individual characteristics of entrepreneurs play in sustainable job creation. ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2019,
46 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 12742)
| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
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SOEPpapers 1061 / 2019
As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to better understand which variables influence the first hiring decision and which ones influence the subsequent survival as an employer. Using the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP), we analyze what role individual characteristics of entrepreneurs play in sustainable job creation. ...
2019| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos