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This paper explores the commuting paradox in the context of two-partner households by estimating the relationship between the subjective well-being of spouses and their commuting distances. Some of the former literature has found evidence that individuals are not fully compensated for changes in commuting (the commuting paradox). We study unitary, cooperative, and non-cooperative decision-making models ...
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Empirica
46 (2019), 1, 63-101
| Georg Hirte, Ulrike Illmann
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Health differences which correspond to socioeconomic status (SES) can be attributed to three causal mechanisms: SES affects health (social causation), health affects SES (health selection), and common background factors influence both SES and health (indirect selection). Using retrospective survey data from 10 European countries (SHARELIFE, n = 20,227) and structural equation models in a cross-lagged ...
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Advances in Life Course Research
36 (2018), 23-36
| Rasmus Hoffmann, Hannes Kröger, Eduwin Pakpahan
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The widely established health differences between people with greater economic resources and those with fewer resources can be attributed to both social causation (material factors affecting health) and health selection (health affecting material wealth). Each of these pathways may have different intensities at different ages, because the sensitivity of health to a lack of material wealth and the degree ...
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European Journal of Ageing
15 (2018), 4, 379-391
| Rasmus Hoffmann, Hannes Kröger, Eduwin Pakpahan
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Differences in mortality between groups with different socioeconomic positions (SEP) are well-established, but the relative contribution of different SEP measures is unclear. This study compares the correlation between three SEP dimensions and mortality, and investigates differences between gender and age groups (35–59 vs. 60–84). We use an 11% random sample with an 80% oversample of deaths from the ...
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Social Indicators Research
145 (2019), 1, 349-365
| Rasmus Hoffmann, Hannes Kröger, Lasse Tarkiainen, Pekka Martikainen
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This study examines the accumulation of personal wealth of husbands and wives and investigates the development of within-couple wealth inequalities over time in marriage. Going beyond previous research that mostly studied the marriage wealth premium using household-level wealth data and that conceptualized marriage as an instantaneous transition with uniform consequences over time, we argue that entry ...
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European Sociological Review
36 (2020), 4, 580-593
| Nicole Kapelle, Philipp M. Lersch
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In this study, we investigate how the attitude of natives—defined as the perceived trustworthiness of citizens from different countries—affects immigrants’ labor market outcomes in Germany. Evidence in the literature suggests that barriers to economic assimilation might be higher for some groups of immigrants, but the role of natives’ heterogeneous attitudes toward immigrants from different countries ...
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Demography
56 (2019), 3, 1023-1050
| Sekou Keita, Jérôme Valette
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A proper family house is for many a self-owned house with a private garden in a purely residential area. We analyse the relevance of having grown up in a parental home with a garden and in close proximity to green spaces for moving into a detached or terraced house for one or two families, whether rented or bought, which we call a “family house.” Simultaneously, we analyse whether the same predictors ...
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Population, Space and Place
26 (2020), 2, e2299
| Stefanie Kley, Anna Stenpaß
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Purpose: Individual differences in the development of perceived job insecurity among young workers may be influenced by characteristics of the first job (contract type and sector) and individual background (education and previous unemployment), and can have implications for subsequent health and well-being. The aim of this study was to investigate the development of perceived job insecurity during ...
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International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health
92 (2019), 6, 901-918
| Katharina Klug, Claudia Bernhard-Oettel, Anne Mäkikangas, Ulla Kinnunen, Magnus Sverke
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A stylized finding on returns to vocational education is that vocational compared to general education generates a differential life course pattern of employability: while vocational education guarantees smooth transitions into the labour market and thus generates initial advantages, these erode with increasing age, leading to late-life reversals in employment chances. We contribute to this research ...
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Social Inclusion
7 (2019), 3, 224-253
| Fabian Kratz, Alexander Patzina, Corinna Kleinert, Hans Dietrich
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I investigate how the German income tax code affects the timing of marriages. The German income tax code allows married couples to benefit from full income splitting relative to unmarried couples. If their individual incomes differ, legally married couples may benefit from jointly filing their income taxes and thus fully splitting their incomes because of increasing marginal tax rates. The gain from ...
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Applied Economics
52 (2020), 5, 475-489
| Alexander Fink