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SOEPpapers 856 / 2016
Understanding the formation of trust at the individual level is a key issue given the impact that it has been recognized to have on economic development. Theoretical work highlights the role of the transmission of values such as trust from parents to their children. Attempts to empirically measure the strength of this transmission relied so far on the cross-sectional regression of the trust of children ...
2016| Corrado Giulietti, Enrico Rettore, Sara Tonini
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Diskussionspapiere 1603 / 2016
Since the millennium, the labor market participation of women and mothers is increasing across European countries. Several work/care policy measures underlie this evolution. At the same time, the labor market behavior of men and fathers, as well as their involvement in care work, is relatively unchanging, meaning that employed mothers are facing an increased burden with respect to gainful employment ...
2016| Kai-Uwe Müller, Michael Neumann, Katharina Wrohlich
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DIW Wochenbericht 29 / 2016
Auch in Berlin sind öffentliche Investitionen entscheidend für die Lebenszufriedenheit der Menschen und Voraussetzung für eine positive wirtschaftliche Entwicklung. DieBetätigungsfelder für öffentliche Investitionen sind vielfältig. Aufgaben für Berlin sind unter anderem ein zukunftsfähiges Verkehrskonzept mit dem Erhalt und dem Ausbau des ÖPNVs und einem tragfähigen Fahrradkonzept, es müssen alte ...
2016| Felix Arnold, Johannes Brinkmann, Maximilian Brill, Ronny Freier
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DIW Economic Bulletin 29/30 / 2016
In Berlin, as elsewhere, public investment is critical to an individual’s life satisfaction and a prerequisite for positive economic development. There are many fields of activity for public investment. For instance, the tasks for Berlin include a sustainable transport concept that maintains and develops the local passenger transport network, a sustainable cycle concept, new schools need to be built ...
2016| Felix Arnold, Johannes Brinkmann, Maximilian Brill, Ronny Freier
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Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 4 / 2015
Seit 2010 befindet sich die griechische Wirtschaft in einer tiefen Krise. Dazu haben verschiedene Probleme beigetragen, wie etwa die steigenden staatlichen Ausgaben und der Verlust der internationalen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit. Letzteres hat unter anderem zu hohen Haushalts- und Handelsdefiziten geführt. Seit Ausbruch der Krise ist die Wirtschaft um rund 30 Prozent geschrumpft. Die Arbeitslosigkeit ist ...
2015| Xeni Dassiou
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Diskussionspapiere 1586 / 2016
This paper investigates the effect of locus of control (LOC) on the length of mothers’ employment break after childbirth. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), duration data reveals that women with an internal LOC return to employment more quickly than women with an external LOC. We find evidence that this effect is mainly related to differential appreciation of the career costs ...
2016| Eva M. Berger, Luke Haywood
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Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 3 / 2015
In 2010 the Greek economy entered a deep economic crisis. This was the result of an accumulation of structural problems in the economy, including overspending and loss of competitiveness during the previous decades, translating into persistently large budget and trade deficits. In 2015, under its third EU and IMF bailout, Greece has entered a spiral of depression that has led to its economy shrinking ...
2015| Xeni Dassiou
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SOEPpapers 665 / 2014
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) and from the German Mikrozensus. Following the international literature we derive hypotheses on the patterns of teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with teenage age and education, with the income ...
2014| Kamila Cygan-Rehm, Regina T. Riphahn
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Diskussionspapiere 1278 / 2013
We investigate whether the willingness to take investment risk is a sex-linked trait and link the results to the country's gender equality regime. Our empirical analysis involves household data on financial asset holdings as well as on self-reported risk tolerance for Austria, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. Of those countries, Italy is by far the country with the greatest degree of gender inequality ...
2013| Nataliya Barasinska, Dorothea Schäfer
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SOEPpapers 529 / 2012
This paper analyses the role of family risk attitudes in intergenerational mobility in incomes and education. Based on 1984-2009 data of sons and fathers from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey, there is evidence suggesting that sons with risk taking fathers have a significantly higher educational mobility and persistently higher income mobility than peers with risk averse fathers. They obtain ...
2012| Mathias Huebener