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Job satisfaction has been found to increase with age. However, we still have a very limited understanding of how job satisfaction changes as people approach retirement. This is important as the years before retirement present specific challenges for older workers. We employed a time-to-retirement approach to investigate (i) mean levels of change in job satisfaction in the decade before retirement, ...
In:
European Journal of Ageing
21 (2024), 1, 33
| Georg Henning, Graciela Muniz-Terrera, Andreas Stenling, Martin Hyde
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This field experiment investigates the causal impact of mothers' perceptions of gender norms on their employment attitudes and labor-supply expectations. We provide mothers of young children in Germany with information about the prevailing gender norm regarding maternal employment in their city. At baseline, over 70% of mothers incorrectly perceive this gender norm as too conservative. Our randomized ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2024,
(IZA Discussion Paper No. 17543)
| Henning Hermes, Marina Krauß, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter, Simon Wiederhold
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The four-day-week receives growing attention by companies, researchers, and governments. A core premise of the concept is that reducing working hours increases individual well-being. While trials in public and private organisations support this claim, empirical studies on the relationship between working hours and well-being do not offer conclusive evidence. This study contributes to the academic literature ...
2022,
| Marla D. Hinkenhuis
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Recent research in economics and sociology demonstrates the existence of significant occupational segregation by sexual orientation and gender identity and differences in a range of labor market outcomes, such as hiring chances, earnings, and leadership positions. In this paper, we examine one possible cause of these differences that is associated with the disadvantaged position of sexual and gender ...
In:
PLOS ONE
19 (2024), 6, e0296419
| Zaza Zindel, Lisa de Vries
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Achieving low unemployment in an environment of weak growth is a major policy challenge; a more egalitarian distribution of hours worked could be the key to solving it. Whether work-sharing actually increases employment, however, has been debated controversially. In this article we present stylized facts on the distribution of hours worked and discuss the role of work-sharing for a sustainable economy. ...
In:
Ecological Economics
121 (2016), 246-253
| Klara Zwickl, Franziska Disslbacher, Sigrid Stagl
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Investing in entrepreneurship may be costly, and therefore risky, and entrepreneurship is also an economic endeavor that is highly dependent on entrepreneurial ability and risk appetite. In this study, data from 669 famers in southwest China were used as the sample, and we used three different methods to measure farmers’ risk aversion level, including DOSPRET (Domain-Specific Risk-Taking), SOEP (Simple ...
In:
Agriculture
14 (2024), 2, 209
| Tong Wang, Jiaxuan Liu, Hongyu Zhu, Yuansheng Jiang
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Hypothetical bias is the discrepancy between stated preferences and actual choices. As such, it is one of the key issues regarding the use of hypothetical survey methods and therefore highly relevant for economists in understanding human behavior and refining policy interventions. Hypothetical survey methods are often used to inform our view on decision making in health and financial settings. However, ...
Essen:
RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung,
2024,
(Ruhr Economic Papers, No. 1091)
| Anna Werbeck
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This paper proposes IV-based estimators for the semiparametric distribution regression model in the presence of an endogenous regressor, which are based on an extension of IV probit estimators and the idea of control functions. We discuss the causal interpretation of the estimators and two methods (monotone rearrangement and isotonic regression) to ensure a monotonically increasing distribution function. ...
In:
Labour Economics
90 (2024), 102565
| Dominik Wied
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Self-control is a personality dimension that is associated with better physical health and a longer lifespan. Here, we examined (1) whether self-control is associated with buccal and saliva DNA-methylation (DNAm) measures of biological aging quantified in children, adolescents, and adults, and (2) whether biological aging measured in buccal DNAm is associated with self-reported health. Following preregistered ...
In:
Clinical Epigenetics
16 (2024), 1, 22
| Y. E. Willems, A. deSteiguer, P. T. Tanksley, L. Vinnik, D. Fraemke, A. Okbay, D. Richter, G. G. Wagner, R. Hertwig, P. Koellinger, E. M. Tucker-Drob, K. P. Harden, Laurel Raffington
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The Big Five personality traits predict many important life outcomes. These traits, although relatively stable, are also open to change across time. However, whether these changes likewise predict a wide range of life outcomes has yet to be rigorously tested. This has implications for the types of processes linking trait levels and changes with future outcomes: distal, cumulative processes versus more ...
In:
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
125 (2023), 6, 1495-1518
| Amanda J. Wright, Joshua J. Jackson