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Berlin:
SOEP,
2020,
(SOEP CoV-Spotlights 1)
| Sabine Zinn
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Increasing nonresponse rates is a pressing issue for many longitudinal panel studies. Respondents frequently either refuse participation in single survey waves (temporary dropout) or discontinue participation altogether (permanent dropout). Contemporary statistical methods that are used to elucidate predictors of survey nonresponse are typically limited to small variable sets and ignore complex interaction ...
In:
Social Science Computer Review
40 (2022), 3, 678-699
| Sabine Zinn, Timo Gnambs
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Die coronabedingten Schließungen von Schulen und Kinderbetreuungsein-richtungen im April und Mai 2020 haben viele Eltern vor eine immense Herausforderung gestellt. Plötzlich mussten Kinder ganztags zu Hause betreut und beschult werden. Wie aktuelle Ergebnisse der SOEP-CoV-Studie zeigen, lag die Hauptlast der Kinderbetreuung während des Lockdowns bei den Müttern. Gleichzeitig investierten die Väter ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(DIW aktuell 51)
| Sabine Zinn, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Michael Bayer
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German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 1990 are commonly described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in East and West Germany were far from being randomly selected treatment and control groups. First, the later border is already visible in many socio-economic characteristics ...
In:
Journal of Economic Perspectives
34 (2020), 2, 143-171
| Sascha O. Becker, Lukas Mergele, Ludger Woessmann
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Using a new German individual data set, we investigate the influence on health with respect to personal traits measured by the Big Five, collegiality, commitment and job characteristics. Among the Big Five conscientiousness, agreeableness and emotional stability correlate positively with good health. Job characteristics like activities combined with substantial decision authority, no physically demanding ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2019,
(IZA DP No. 12597)
| Lutz Bellmann, Olaf Hübler
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Die Mindestlohnkommission hat bis zum 30. Juni 2020 über die Anpassung der Höhe des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns zu beschließen und der Bundesregierung ihren dritten Bericht über die Auswirkungen des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns vorzulegen. Hierzu hat sie die Möglichkeit genutzt, vor Beschlussfassung fachliche Einschätzungen von externen Stellen im Rahmen einer schriftlichen Anhörung einzuholen. Das IAB ...
Nürnberg:
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB),
2020,
(IAB Stellungnahme 4/2020)
| Philipp vom Berge, Jonas Beste, Benjamin Börschlein, Mario Bossler, Kerstin Bruckmeier, Nicole Gürtzgen
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This is the first paper to examine experimentally effects of information provision on beliefs about pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns of postgraduate education, enrolment intentions and realized enrolment. We find that our treatment causally affects beliefs measured six months after treatment. The effects on beliefs differ by gender and academic background, and we find that stated enrolment intentions ...
In:
Economica
89 (2022), 355, 627-646
| Jan Berkes, Frauke Peter, C. Katharina Spieß, Felix Weinhardt
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Die Verteilungswirkungen des Steuer- und Transfersystems in Deutschland werden in der politischen Debatte vermehrt diskutiert. Die Fragen, wer finanziert zu welchem Anteil staatliche Aufgaben und wer profitiert von der Umverteilung, sind entscheidend bei der Beurteilung von wirtschaftspolitischen Maßnahmen. Durch Nutzung verschiedener Datensätze und Methodiken, können Steuern, Sozialabgaben und monetäre ...
Köln:
IW Köln,
2020,
(IW-Report 6)
| Martin Beznoska
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We decompose the satisfaction gap between East and West Germany into objective circumstances and subjective mentality, the latter capturing the way circumstances are being evaluated. Using the methodology proposed by Senik (2014) we find circumstances and mentality to contribute in the proportion 55: 45%. The mentality-related gap is driven by birth cohorts socialized under different political regimes ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
181 (2021), January 2021, 1-18
| Philipp Biermann, Heinz Welsch
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The volume presents an updated overview of the background ideas of the NEPS and its conceptional framework. It informs about the longitudinal structure of the multicohort sequence design and discusses its key methodological challenges as well as data protection issues. It also describes the organizational structure of the consortium of leading educational scientists and research institutions who have ...
Wiesbaden:
Springer VS,
2019,
| Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Hans-Günther (eds.) Roßbach