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A large interdisciplinary literature on the relationship between age and subjective well-being (happiness) has produced very mixed evidence. Virtually every conceivable age-happiness trajectory has been supported by empirical evidence and theoretical arguments. Sceptics may conclude that the social science of happiness can only produce arbitrary results. In this paper we argue that this conclusion ...
2021,
(PsyArXiv Preprints)
| Fabian Kratz, Josef Brüderl
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Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht theoretisch und empirisch gesundheitliche Selektionsprozesse auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt und wie diese durch soziale Kontextfaktoren beeinflusst werden. Aufbauend auf der Humankaiptaltheorie werden eine reihe von Hypothesen aufgestellt über den kausalen Effekt der subjektiven Gesundheit und der krankheitsbedingten Fehltage auf den Jobstatus. Die Humankapitaltheorie ...
2014,
| Hannes Kröger
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We propose several novel consistent specification tests for quantile regression models which generalize former tests by important characteristics. First, we allow the covariate effects to be quantile-dependent and nonlinear. Second, we allow for parameterizing the conditional quantile functions by appropriate basis functions, rather than parametrically.We are hence able to test for functional forms ...
In:
Scandinavian Journal of Statistics
51 (2024), 1, 355-383
| Tim Kutzker, Nadja Klein, Dominik Wied
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In this article I deal with current re-figurations of spaces and the corresponding challenges for quantitative research. Potential new directions for quantitative research are central, firstly in the search for adequate units of analysis with reference to the macro level—where supranational dynamics are gaining importance in the course of globalization—, secondly with regard to relational spatial concepts—which ...
In:
Forum: Qualitative Social Research
22 (2021), 2, 21
| Wolfgang Aschauer
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This paper studies the dynamics of the scarring effect of youth unemployment over the business cycle in 12 European countries. On the one hand, we analyse differences associated with the negative effect of past unemployment experiences on future labour market status. And, on the other hand, we consider the potential stigmatization of prospective young workers – that is, the extent to which employers ...
In:
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
84 (2022), 1, 103-129
| Sara Ayllón, Javier Valbuena, Alexander Plum
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We exploit a large exogenous shock to study the determinants of college attendance and the role played by one's environment. We analyze whether, and how quickly, adolescents' college plans are adapted, explore factors leading to the adjustment, and examine how these factors ultimately impact later educational attainment. Using differences across East German cohorts induced by the timing of ...
In:
Journal of the European Economic Association
22 (2024), 2, 669–711
| Ghazala Azmat, Katja Maria Kaufmann
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This paper investigates the role of work experience in migrant mothers’ current employment in Germany. Unlike previous papers, we focus on actual experience and add the motherhood aspect. To this end, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel 2013-2018 including the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample. Having immigrated to Germany and female sex are the two treatments of our sample of 491 migrant mothers, ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1140)
| Christina Boll, Andreas Lagemann
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Empirical welfare analyses often impose stringent parametric assumptions on individuals’ preferences and neglect unobserved preference heterogeneity. In this paper, we develop a framework to conduct individual and social welfare analysis for discrete choice that does not suffer from these drawbacks. We first adapt the broad class of individual welfare measures introduced by Fleurbaey (2009) to settings ...
Munich:
CESifo,
2021,
(CESifo Working Paper No. 9071)
| Bart Capéau, Liebrecht De Saddeleer, Sebastiaan Maes, André Descoster
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We here use panel data from the COME-HERE survey to track income inequality during COVID-19 in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Relative inequality in equivalent household disposable income among individuals changed in a hump-shaped way between January 2020 and January 2021, with an initial rise from January to May 2020 being more than reversed by September 2020. Absolute inequality also fell over ...
In:
The Journal of Economic Inequality
19 (2021), 3, 489-507
| Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Anthony Lepinteur
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We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account employment characteristics of women and men, we are able to identify the extent to which the redistributive effect of pension rights reduces the gender wealth gap. The data for our analysis come from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), one of the few surveys that collects information ...
In:
European Journal of Population
38 (2022), 4, 755-810
| Karla Cordova, Markus M. Grabka, Eva Sierminska