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We analyze workers’ risk preferences and training investments. Our conceptual framework differentiates between the investment risk and insurance mechanisms underpinning training decisions. Investment risk leads risk-averse workers to train less; they undertake more training if it insures them against future losses. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to demonstrate that risk affinity is associated ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
205 (2023), 668-686
| Marco Caliendo, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Cosima Obst, Arne Uhlendorff
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The empirical literature is inconclusive about whether a country’s democratization goes hand in hand with a reallocation of economic resources. With newly available individual-level data of former residents of the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR), we analyse how supporters and opponents of the socialist system performed within the market-based democracy of West Germany after reunification. ...
In:
European Journal of Political Economy
76 (2023), 2023, 102252
| Max Deter, Martin Lange
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Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings uncertainty, and job change. Migrants are found to be negatively selected with respect to labor market outcomes, with a large drop in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable positive earnings and employment gains of migration both in comparison ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2020,
(IZA DP No. 13740)
| Julian Emmler, Bernd Fitzenberger
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We study the causal effect of local labor market conditions and attitudes towards immigrants at the time of arrival on refugees’ multi-dimensional integration outcomes (economic, linguistic, navigational, political, psychological, and social). Using a unique dataset on refugees, we leverage a centralized allocation policy in Germany where refugees were exogenously assigned to live in specific counties. ...
In:
Journal of Urban Economics
137 (2023), September 2023, 103588
| Cevat G. Aksoy, Panu Poutvaara, Felicitas Schikora
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Personality predicts how we interact with others, what partners we have, and how happy and lasting our romantic relationships are. At the same time, our experiences in these relationships may affect our personality. Who experiences specific major relationship events and how do these events relate to personality development? We examined this issue based on data from a nationally representative household ...
In:
Developmental Psychology
56 (2020), 9, 1803-1816
| Eva Asselmann, Jule Specht
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Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) are developing Joint Estimates of the work-related burden of disease and injury (WHO/ILO Joint Estimates), with contributions from a large network of experts. Evidence from mechanistic data suggests that exposure to long working hours may increase alcohol consumption and cause alcohol use disorder. In this ...
In:
Environment International
146 (2021), 106205
| Daniela V. Pachito, Frank Pega, Jelena Bakusic, Hannes Kröger
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We examine the differential effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a “disruptive exogenous shock” to family life. We make use of a novel representative survey of parental well-being collected in May and June 2020 in Germany, when schools and day ...
In:
Review of Economics of the Household
19 (2021), 1, 91-122
| Mathias Huebener, Sevrin Waights, C. Katharina Spieß, Nico A. Siegel, Gert G. Wagner
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This paper investigates whether the effects of affordable and easily available public child care on fertility and maternal employment depend on the career costs of children a woman faces. It builds on the idea that these costs vary by occupation and education. In a generalized Diff-in-Diff, I exploit the substantial variation between West German counties concerning intensity and speed of the provision ...
Erlangen-Nuremberg:
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg,
2019,
(BGPE Discussion Paper No. 185)
| Katrin Huber
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This paper synthesizes recent research in economics and psychology on the measurement and empirical importance of personality skills and preferences. They predict and cause important life outcomes such as wages, health, and longevity. Skills develop over the life cycle and can be enhanced by education, parenting, and environmental influences to different degrees at different ages. Economic analysis ...
Cambridge:
National Bureau of Economic Research,
2019,
(NBER Working Paper 26459)
| James J. Heckman, Tomáš Jagelka, Tim Kautz
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Commonly described as the “gender care gap”, there is a persistent gender difference in the division of domestic responsibilities in most developed countries. We provide novel evidence on the short- and long-run effects of an exogenous shock on paternal availability, through a job loss, on the allocation of domestic work within couples. We find that paternal child care and housework significantly increase ...
In:
Review of Economics of the Household
20 (2022), 2, 579-607
| Juliane Hennecke, Astrid Pape