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This paper investigates how working from home affects employees’ work effort. Employees who have the possibility to work from home have a high autonomy in scheduling and organizing their work and are therefore assumed to have a higher intrinsic motivation. Thus, we expect working from home to positively influence work effort of employees. We introduce a theoretical model that analyzes whether intrinsic ...
In:
Schmalenbach Business Review
70 (2018), 1, 25-55
| Kira Rupietta, Michael Beckmann
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While general ethnic disadvantages are well documented, much less is known about coinciding disadvantages of ethnic origin and gender. Based on theoretical arguments of human capital theory, sociocultural approaches, labour market segmentation theory, and discrimination mechanisms, we investigate whether immigrant women experience more difficulties on the labour market than immigrant men, non-immigrant ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1072)
| Zerrin Salikutluk, Johannes Giesecke, Martin Kroh
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Women’s life courses underwent substantial changes in the family and work domains in the second half of the twentieth century. The associated fundamental changes in opportunity structures and values challenged the importance of families of origin for individual life courses, but two research strands suggest enduring within-family reproduction of women’s family behavior and work outcomes. We revisit ...
In:
Demography
57 (2020), 1483-1511
| Sergi Vidal, Philipp M. Lersch, Marita Jacob, Karsten Hank
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Objectives: Responding to the mental health needs of refugees remains a pressing challenge worldwide. We estimated the prevalence of psychological distress in a large refugee population in Germany and assessed its association with host country factors amenable to policy intervention and integration indicators. Design: A cross-sectional and population-based secondary analysis of the 2017 wave of the ...
In:
BMJ Open
10 (2020), 8, e033658
| Lena Walther, Hannes Kröger, Ana Nanette Tibubos, Thi Minh Tam Ta, Christian von Scheve, Jürgen Schupp, Eric Hahn, Malek Bajbouj
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Objective: To document how changes in household wealth following the dissolution of marriage and cohabitation differ by gender in Germany. Background; Marital property regimes usually prescribe that both partners receive a share of the couple's wealth following a divorce. The dissolution of cohabiting unions is not governed by marital property regimes in most countries, including Germany. Because ...
In:
Journal of Marriage and Family
83 (2021), 1, 228-242
| Diederik Boertien, Philipp M. Lersch
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Dieser Beitrag untersucht auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) 2018 die Zusammenhänge zwischen dem väterlichen Kinderbetreuungsanteil im Paar und den in der Literatur einschlägigen Wirkmechanismen Zeitbudgetverhältnis, Einkommensrelation und Geschlechterrolleneinstellungen im Paar. Die Untersuchungsstichprobe besteht aus 2.145 heterosexuellen Paaren im Alter 18 bis 65 Jahre mit Kindern unter ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1089)
| Christina Boll, Simone Schüller
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Drawing on data from the Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) for 2018, we use a sample of 2,145 heterosexual couples with children below age 13 to investigate the paternal involvement in domestic childcare and the relation of the underlying mechanisms to the two job-related “Covid-19 factors” systemic relevance (SR) and capacity to work from home (WfH). Based on bi- and trivariate analyses of the intra-couple ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1098)
| Christina Boll, Simone Schüller
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Why has the college wage premium risen rapidly in the United States since the 1980s, but not in European economies such as Germany? We argue that differences in employment protection can account for much of the gap. We develop a model in which firms and workers make relationship-specific investments in skill accumulation. The incentive to invest is stronger when employment protection creates an expectation ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1093)
| Matthias Doepke, Ruben Gaetani
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Using an unusually rich matched employer-employee data set for Portugal, we studied the persistent earnings losses of workers displaced due to firm closure, collective dismissals and individual dismissals. We found that those losses are rather severe and persistent, representing around 50 percent of the pre-displacement wages, six years after the separation event. Those losses are largely explained ...
2013,
| Pedro S. Raposo
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We decompose permanent earnings risk into contributions from hours and wage shocks. To distinguish between hours shocks, modeled as innovations to the marginal disutility of work, and labor supply reactions to wage shocks we formulate a life-cycle model of consumption and labor supply. Both permanent wage and hours shocks are important to explain earnings risk, but wage shocks have greater relevance. ...
In:
Scandinavian Journal of Economics
125 (2023), 4, 956-996
| Robin Jessen, Johannes König