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In his seminal contribution, Baumol (1990) proposes that the direction of entrepreneurial effort towards its productive (e.g., start-up activity) or unproductive (e.g., rent-seeking) use in a society depends on institutions or the “rules of the game”. We focus on an important micro-foundation of Baumol's theory namely that certain individuals change the direction of entrepreneurial efforts with ...
In:
Journal of Business Venturing
37 (2022), 5, 106246
| Alina Sorgner, Michael Wyrwich
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Using data from a new survey we designed for the Innovation Sample of the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), we document the relationship between marital sorting and intra-household decision-making, with a focus on consumption allocations and employment changes due to having children. Our rst main nding is that most households in our sample (72%) split private consumption equally between partners, ...
2021,
(Working Paper)
| Paula Calvo, Ilse Lindenlaub, Lindsey Uniat
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Within the diverse populations characterizing the modern society, it is essential to explore the experiences of multicultural individuals and their subjective well-being. The aim of this study is to explore the participation of migrants in socio-cultural activities related to arts, theatre, concerts and sports events and its role in their subjective well-being (SWB). The empirical analysis relies on ...
In:
International Review of Economics
68 (2021), 423-463
| Eleftherios Giovanis
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In recent decades, the inequality of household income has increased globally. A common trend is increased income inequality at the top of the distribution. The sources of this trend are a matter of debate. Increased demand for analytical and managerial skills is said to have strongly increased labor incomes at the top. Other scholars have indicated that structural conditions, such as financialization ...
In:
Social Forces
101 (2022), 2, 694-719
| Andreas Haupt, Gerd Nollmann
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Job satisfaction has previously been found to increase across the life span. However, few studies have focused on the very last years of working life. We applied a time-to-retirement approach to job satisfaction and investigated change in job satisfaction in the ten years before retirement in the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP, n = 2,619). Job satisfaction showed a small non-linear decline as people ...
2021,
(PsyArXiv Preprints)
| Georg Henning, Graciela Muniz-Terrera, Andreas Stenling, Martin Hyde
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The availability of large data sets is increasing dramatically, reshaping decision-making in many domains, such as energy, education and health. Data sets may be large in two dimensions: in the number of observations and in the number of variables. This thesis mainly deals with the first case. Often, large data sets arise as a byproduct of emerging technologies, possibly allowing very detailed measurements ...
2021,
| Matthias Kaeding
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Moving–particularly to a new country–is fraught with risks as migrants leave familiar legal frameworks and cultural institutions behind them. To date, little is known about the psychological determinants of international migration. This chapter helps to fill this gap by analysing data from the first wave of the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS) in combination with data on non-mobile ...
In:
Marcel Erlinghagen, Andreas Ette, Norbert F. Schneider, Nils Witte ,
The Global Lives of German Migrants: Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course
Cham: Springer
85-100
| Christiane Lübke, Jean P. Décieux, Marcel Erlinghagen, Gert G. Wagner
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Migration implies both benefits and costs. The latter include a possible breakdown of social networks, and thus a loss of social capital. Although there is some literature on the evolution of family networks after migration, not as much is known about friendship. This article assesses the quality of friendships between German emigrants and their friends who stayed in Germany. In particular, it asks ...
In:
Marcel Erlinghagen, Andreas Ette, Norbert F. Schneider, Nils Witte ,
The Global Lives of German Migrants: Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course
Cham: Springer
229-246
| Lisa Mansfeld
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Background: Following the 2008 economic crisis many countries implemented austerity policies, including reducing public spending on health services. This paper evaluates the trends and equity in the use of health services during and after that period in Spain – a country with austerity policies – and in Germany – a country without restriction on healthcare spending. Methods: Data from several National ...
In:
International Journal for Equity in Health
20 (2021), 1, 120
| Almudena Moreno, Lourdes Lostao, Johannes Beller, Stefanie Sperlich, Elena Ronda, Siegfried Geyer, José Pulido, Enrique Regidor
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Human longevity is rising rapidly all over the world, but are longer lives more satisfied lives? This study suggests that the answer might be no. Despite a substantial increase in months of satisfying life, people’s overall life satisfaction declined between 1985 and 2011 in West Germany due to substantial losses of life satisfaction in old age. When compared to 1985, in 2011, elderly West Germans ...
In:
Journal of Population Economics
35 (2022), 2, 557-589
| Janina Nemitz