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We estimate the impact of technological innovation on regional labor market outcomes. Our identification strategy exploits pre-reunification complementarities in innovation between East and West Germany. We employ individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to analyze labor market out- comes. Individuals’ income in West German counties with pre-reunification complementarities increased ...
Portsmouth:
University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth Business School, Economics and Finance Subject Group,
2024,
(Working Papers in Economics & Finance 2024-07)
| Ali Sina Önder, Sascha Schweitzer, Olga Tcaci
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Increasing global policy interest in measuring and improving population wellbeing has prompted academic investigations into the dynamics of lifespan life satisfaction. Yet little research has assessed the complete adolescent age range, although it harbours developmental changes that could affect wellbeing far into adulthood. This study investigates how life satisfaction develops throughout the whole ...
In:
Royal Society Open Science
9 (2022), 8, 211808
| Amy Orben, Richard E. Lucas, Delia Fuhrmann, Rogier A. Kievit
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Exposure to childhood poverty increases the likelihood of adult poverty. However, past research offers conflicting accounts of cross-national variation in the strength of the intergenerational persistence of poverty and the mechanisms through which it is channeled. This study investigates differences in intergenerational poverty in the United States (U.S.), Australia, Denmark, Germany, and United Kingdom ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2023,
(IZA DP No. 16194)
| Zachary Parolin, Rafael Pintro Schmitt, Gøsta Esping Andersen, Peter Fallesen
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Climate change is one of the central challenges for contemporary societies. It is widely discussed as triggering “climate anxiety,” and as dampening the desire to reproduce, particularly among young people. Conversely, parenthood could affect people’s attitudes and behaviors toward the environment. Empirically, however, little is known about this potentially reciprocal relationship due to the lack ...
Rostock:
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research,
2023,
(MPIDR Working paper WP-2023-023)
| Steffen Peters, Erich Striessnig, Maria Rita Testa, Alessandra Trimarchi, Natalie Nitsche
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Previous research has documented that sexual orientation relates to educational attainment, and that it might do so differently for men and women. In this paper, we investigate to what extent sexual orientation moderates the relationship between social origin and educational attainment and whether the educational premium among LGB people might be concentrated among individuals from lower socioeconomic ...
In:
European Societies
27 (2025), 1, 144-170
| David Kasprowski, Diederik Boertien
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Empirical evidence suggests that a large proportion of immigrants who initially intended to stay temporarily in the destination country end up staying permanently, which may lead to suboptimal integration. We study systematic causes of unexpected staying that originate in migrant misperceptions. Our framework contains uncertainty about long-term wages, endogenous integration and savings in the short ...
In:
Journal of Mathematical Economics
117 (2025), 103099
| Marc Kaufmann, Joël Machado, Bertrand Verheyden
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This article examines how the characteristics of people needing care determine the provision of family care and the time intensity of caring for men and women. Using novel data, we conduct linear (probability) regression models and find that women face family care demands as often as men but tend to provide more (time-intensive) care. When of retirement age, men are more likely than women to meet care ...
In:
International Journal of Care and Caring
(online first) (2024), 1-17
| Nadiya Kelle, Ulrike Ehrlich
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Volunteers’ time contributions have decreased in some European societies, and researchers have sought to understand why. This study aims to uncover the relationship between work-family life changes and changes in individual voluntary behaviour with volunteers’ time contributions. To analyse how determinants for volunteer time contributions have changed over time, we draw on cross-sectional data from ...
In:
VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
35 (2024), 6, 1219-1233
| Nadiya Kelle, Corinna Kausmann, Julia Simonson
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A new algorithmic approach to personality prototyping based on Big Five traits was applied to a large representative and longitudinal German dataset (N = 22,820) including behavior, personality and health correlates. We applied three different clustering techniques, latent profile analysis, the k-means method and spectral clustering algorithms. The resulting cluster centers, i.e. the personality prototypes, ...
In:
PLOS ONE
16 (2021), 1, e0244849
| André Kerber, Marcus Roth, Philipp Yorck Herzberg
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Germany's social security system and its income taxation suffers from intransparent and inefficient interdependencies between the two systems. Additionally, work incentives of the current unemployment benefits are reduced by high implicit marginal tax rates. Due to these inconsistencies there is an ongoing debate in politics and economics to replace the current regulations with an unconditional ...
Berlin:
2012,
| Maximilian Sommer