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The prospect of upward social mobility is a central motive for international migration. Curiously, the nexus of spatial and social mobility attracted attention only relatively late and existing research on intergenerational social mobility usually concentrates on the constellation within the nation state. This chapter expands on this literature by investigating the intergenerational social mobility ...
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
139-153
| Nils Witte, Reinhard Pollak, Andreas Ette
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This article contributes to the analysis of working hour discrepancies, i.e., under- and overemployment, by exploring how they emerge and resolve with special consideration of the household context. It uses a rich longitudinal data set, the German Socio-economic Panel, for a discrete duration analysis controlling for unobserved heterogeneity. We focus on the most relevant household and job characteristics. ...
In:
Applied Economics
53 (2021), 42, 4899-4916
| Franziska Zimmert, Enzo Weber
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The relationship between income inequality and happiness is central to a host of welfare policies. If higher income inequality puts people down, advocating for income redistribution from the rich to the poor could make society happier. We show, however, that this popular consensus on the relationship’s direction is rather absent in the academic literature. Based on the 868 observations col- lected ...
2021,
| Lucie Kamenická
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Housing costs have been increasing rapidly in Germany in recent years. Given the importance of housing for the elderly, one may expect many to be forced to dedicate ever-larger shares of their income to housing costs. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we examine how changes in housing costs between 1996 and 2017 have affected income poverty among Germany?s over-65s. ...
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Housing Studies
38 (2023), 7, 1220-1238
| Alberto Lozano Alcántara, Claudia Vogel
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Repeated experiences and activities drive personality development. Leisure activities are among the daily routines that may elicit personality change. Yet despite the important role they play in daily life, little is known about their prospective effects on personality traits and vice versa. The objective of this study was to examine the extent to which within-person changes in leisure activities lead ...
In:
Collabra: Psychology
7 (2021), 1, 23473
| Julia Sander, Paul Schumann, David Richter, Jule Specht
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Does technological change fuel political disruption? Drawing on fine-grained labor market data from Germany, this paper examines how technological change affects regional electorates. We first show that the well-known decline in manufacturing and routine jobs in regions with higher robot adoption or investment in information and communication technology (ICT) was more than compensated by parallel employment ...
In:
Political Science Research and Methods
12 (2024), 1, 94-112
| Nikolas Schöll, Thomas Kurer
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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 ...
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Journal of Business Venturing
37 (2022), 5, 106246
| Alina Sorgner, Michael Wyrwich
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This dissertation overcomes several missing data problems in ex-post survey harmonization. Although ex-post survey harmonization projects have become more common in the social sciences in recent years, methodological research on this topic is still relatively rare. The dissertation's main body consists of four chapters, each of which presents a study exploring solutions for missing data problems ...
2021,
| Anna-Carolina Haensch
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An increasing number of researchers pool, harmonize, and analyze survey data from different survey providers for their research questions. They aim to study heterogeneity between groups over a long period or examine smaller subgroups; research questions that can be impossible to answer with a single survey. This combination or pooling of data is known as individual person data (IPD) meta-analysis in ...
2020,
(SocArXiv Papers)
| Anna-Carolina Haensch, Bernd Weiß
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This dissertation consists of three essays analyzing policies that affect different aspects of labor supply. Economists are interested in many different aspects of labor supply decisions, such as whether to participate in the labor market, amount of work conditional on participation and career choice, among others. At the same time, a wide range of policies can impact labor supply such as: tax, immigration, ...
2021,
| Md. Mobarak Hossain