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In this paper we investigate how co-ethnic networks affect the economic success of immigrants. Using longitudinal data of immigrants in Germany and including a large set of fixed effects and pre-migration controls to address the possible endogeneity of initial location, we find that immigrants in districts with larger co-ethnic networks are more likely to be employed soon after arrival. This advantage ...
In:
The Economic Journal
132 (2022), 641, 58-88
| Michele Battisti, Giovanni Peri, Agnese Romiti
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In the German school system, grades are the essential means of performance feedback and assignment. However, little research has been conducted on the factors that determine grades in addition to competencies, and existing findings are poorly replicated. Using data from the representative IQB Trends in Student Performance 2015 survey, our analysis combined a variety of personal and structural characteristics ...
In:
International Journal of Educational Research Open
2 (2021), 100101
| Michael Bayer, Sabine Zinn, Christin Rüdiger
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In recent decades, many affluent democracies moved from traditional welfare states to workfare systems. Meanwhile, income inequality developed differently across countries, even when they made apparently similar shifts from welfare to workfare. It is a matter of debate why welfare state change had such heterogeneous consequences across countries. This article proposes that different incentives to take ...
In:
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
80 (2022), 100712
| Barbara Binder, Andreas Haupt
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Germany’s labour market has weathered the COVID-19 crisis quite well. The unemployment rate increased by less than one percentage point between the last pre-crisis quarter Q4 2019 and its peak in Q3 2020 (from 3.2% to 4.1%); the employment rate fell by less than five percentage points (from 75.7% to 71.1%). Both indicators have since returned to their pre-crisis levels (OECD, forthcoming[1]). The widespread ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2022,
(IZA DP No. 15475)
| Carsten Braband, Valentina Sara Consiglio, Markus M. Grabka, Natascha Hainbach, Sebastian Königs
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Most research examining individuals who follow different diets has combined vegetarians and vegans into a single group. To investigate whether this consolidation is justified, we analyzed possible differences between vegetarians and vegans for the Big Five personality traits in two studies. In our pre-study, we used data from a German convenience sample of 400 vegetarians and 749 vegans and found that ...
In:
PLOS ONE
17 (2022), 6, e0268896
| Markus Müssig, Tamara M. Pfeiler, Boris Egloff
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Thriving middle classes are the backbone of democratic societies and strong economies, but in many countries, they face mounting pressure as their economic strength is eroding relative to higher-income households. Real wages and incomes for most middle-class households have grown only very slowly, and rising expenditures have been putting further pressure on living standards. Meanwhile, globalisation, ...
Paris:
OECD Publishing,
2021,
| OECD
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There is a vast literature on the determinants of subjective wellbeing. Yet, standard regression models explain little variation in wellbeing. We here use data from Germany, the UK, and the US to assess the potential of Machine Learning (ML) to help us better understand wellbeing. Compared to traditional models, ML approaches provide moderate improvements in predictive performance. Drastically expanding ...
Oxford:
Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School (INET Oxford),
2022,
(INET Oxford Working Paper No. 2022-11)
| Ekaterina Oparina, Caspar Kaiser, Niccolò Gentile, Alexandre Tkatchenko, Andrew E. Clark, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Conchita D'Ambrosio
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This study sheds light on whether the provision of information on costs, financing options, and returns of college education results in higher application and college enrollment rates. Based on a behavioral intervention with more than 1,000 high school students in Germany, we provide evidence that the provision of such information increases college application and enrollment rates, in particular for ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
190 (2021), October 2021, 524-549
| Frauke Peter, C. Katharina Spieß, Vaishali Zambre
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In dieser Dissertation wird die Beziehung zwischen Arbeitsplatzmerkmalen und dem subjektiven Wohlbefinden von Arbeitnehmern untersucht. Das Wohlbefinden wird in diesem Zusammenhang als ein Konzept verstanden, das aus drei Dimensionen besteht. Diese Dimensionen umfassen die Arbeitszufriedenheit, den ungesunden Lebensstil sowie die krankheitsbedingten Fehltage von Arbeitnehmern. Es wird analysiert inwiefern ...
2022,
| Maike Rubin
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Kinder wachsen und verändern sich ganz offensichtlich im Laufe der Zeit, aber nicht nur sie. Menschen verändern sich über ihre gesamte Lebensspanne. Empirisch belegt ist, dass sich auch die Persönlichkeit von Erwachsenen (d.h.: Offenheit für Erfahrungen, Gewissenhaftigkeit, Extraversion, Verträglichkeit, Neurotizismus) und ihr soziales Leben (z.B.: Größe des sozialen Netzwerks) bis ins hohe Alter verändern. ...
2022,
| Julia Sander