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Equivalence Scales are a tool for removing the heterogeneity of household sizes in the measurement of inequality, and affect poverty assessments and poverty lines. We address the disadvantage that poor households may suffer due to their reduced ability to share goods within the household. This disadvantage is important to estimate and embed in standard analysis, as it seems to have a substantial quantitative ...
In:
Jacques Silber ,
Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing
39-49
| Christos Koulovatianos, Carsten Schröder
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Do employers tend to exploit refugees or do they offer them high-quality jobs? This article examines the job quality of refugees from Afghanistan and Syria working in Austria. It uses unique survey data of 316 refugees and cluster analysis to identify job quality profiles. Drawing on well-established job quality frameworks, it considers multiple dimensions of job quality, including pay, job security, ...
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German Journal of Human Resource Management
34 (2020), 4, 418-442
| Renate Ortlieb, Silvana Weiss
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This study investigates how entrepreneurial health and spousal health influence monetary and non-monetary entrepreneurial success. Drawing on human capital theory in combination with a family embeddedness perspective on entrepreneurship and applying actor–partner interdependence models to longitudinal data, we conclude that overall spousal health constitutes an important extension of entrepreneurs’ ...
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Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
45 (2021), 1, 18-42
| Isabella Hatak, Haibo Zhou
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Existing research generally confirms a countercyclical education enrollment, whereby youths seek shelter in the educational system to avoid hardships in the labor market: the “discouraged worker” thesis. Alternatively, the “encouraged worker” thesis predicts that economic downturns steer individuals away from education because of higher opportunity costs. This study provides a formal test of these ...
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Sociology of Education
94 (2021), 2, 103-123
| Dirk Witteveen
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Delayed gratification is associated with myriad desirable outcomes—like eating right and saving money. In this article, I explore whether it also increases political participation. To this end, I provide an explicit decision-theoretic framework, which predicts that less patient individuals are less willing to vote and to donate; these forms of participation are costly before Election Day, but their ...
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American Politics Research
49 (2021), 3, 304-312
| Jerome Schafer
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Der vorliegende Artikel leistet einen Beitrag zur Forschung über die erwerbsbiographische Einbettung multipler Arbeitsverhältnisse. Wir untersuchen die Übergangs- und Dauereffekte der Mehrfachbeschäftigung in finanzieller und nicht-finanzieller Hinsicht sowie die Rolle flexibler Arbeitsregelungen und der häuslichen Situation. Zu diesem Zweck analysieren wir Paneldaten aus Deutschland, dem Vereinigten ...
In:
Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
27 (2021), 2, 219-236
| Wieteke Conen, Jonas Stein
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Employment relations scholars argue that industrial relations institutions reduce low pay among the workforce, while the insider-outsider literature claims that unions contribute to increase the low-pay risk among non-union members. This article tests these expectations by distinguishing, respectively, between the individual effect of being a union member or covered by collective agreements and the ...
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Work, Employment and Society
36 (2022), 6, 1018-1037
| Chiara Benassi, Tim Vlandas
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Frequent social contact has been associated with better health and longer life. It remains unclear though whether there is an optimal contact frequency, beyond which contact is no longer positively associated with health and longevity. The present research explored this question by examining nonlinear associations of social contact frequency with health and longevity. Study 1 (N ∼ 350,000) demonstrated ...
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Social Psychological and Personality Science
12 (2021), 6, 1058-1070
| Olga Stavrova, Dongning Ren
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In this article, we examine whether and how the institutional context matters when understanding individuals’ giving to philanthropic organizations. We posit that both the individuals’ propensity to give and the amounts given are higher in countries with a stronger institutional context for philanthropy. We examine key factors of formal and informal institutional contexts for philanthropy at both the ...
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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
50 (2021), 4, 697-728
| Pamala Wiepking, Femida Handy, Sohyun Park, Michaela Neumayr, René Bekkers, et al.
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In the fight against climate change, renewable energy has been subsidised in many countries. With the costs passed onto consumers, governments are paying those, for example, who instal domestic solar panels on top of their homes and feed electricity back into the system at preferential rates. We know that substantial amounts of income flow into households with solar installations as a result, but we ...
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Political Studies Review
20 (2022), 3, 525-533
| Resul Umit