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The discussion paper is concerned with the interplay between demography and macroeconomics on one hand and macroeconomics and income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric methods (on the empirical basis of the 1984-2010 German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) waves). In concrete terms, the macroeconomic variables inflation, economic growth, ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2012,
(SOEPpapers 518)
| Jürgen Faik
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Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for Germany in front of and during the economic crisis 2008-2010. This comprises binary logistic regressions where it is tested whether a person is belonging to a certain income region or not. The units of analysis are differentiated by residential status, nationality, sex, age, household size/household ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2012,
(SOEPpapers 450)
| Jürgen Faik
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The discussion paper corresponds with the presentation of a poster at the 2012 annual conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) in Boston with the title “Measuring and Predicting Individual Well-Being on the Basis of a New Methodical Framework – The Case of Germany 1995-2009”. The paper deals with socioeconomic influences upon the future German personal income ...
Frankfurt/M.:
FaMa - Neue Frankfurter Sozialforschung,
2012,
(FaMa-Diskussionspapier 4/2012)
| Jürgen Faik
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The present study calculates variable, cross-sectional as well as longitudinal equivalence scales on the basis of the German 1984-2010 Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) database for West Germany. It follows the “individual variant” for calculating subjective equivalence scales using “life satisfaction” as a proxy variable for “utility”. The cross-sectional scale estimates are characterised by relatively ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2013,
(SOEPpapers 575)
| Jürgen Faik
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The paper compares the pattern of wage assimilation of foreigners with both native immigrants and local natives in Italy, a country with large internal and international migration. This comparison, not yet exploited, yields understanding of the role played by language and knowledge of social capital. We use the administrative dataset on dependent employment (WHIP), to estimate a fixed effect model ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2009,
(IZA DP No. 4639)
| Riccardo Faini, Steinar Strom, Alessandra Venturini, Claudia Villosio
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A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: "opportunity" and "necessity" entrepreneurship. Although there is general agreement in the previous literature on the conceptual distinction between these two factors driving entrepreneurship, ...
Brlin:
DIW Berlin,
2018,
(SOEPpapers 959)
| Robert W. Fairlie, Frank M. Fossen
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This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony network that hinder the roll-out of fixed-line broadband infrastructure for high-speed Internet. We find small negative effects of Internet availability on voter turnout, ...
In:
American Economic Review
104 (2014), 7, 2238-2265
| Oliver Falck, Robert Gold, Stephan Heblich
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This study provides insights on the role of early childhood family environment within the process of preference formation. We start by presenting evidence showing that breastfeeding duration is a valid measure of the quality of early childhood environment. In the main analysis, we then investigate how early childhood environment affects the formation of fundamental economic preferences such as time, ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2016,
(SOEPpapers 882)
| Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse
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This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach that exploits complementarities between controlled laboratory and representative panel data. In a simple principal–agent experiment, agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. Throughout the experiment ...
In:
Management Science
64 (2018), 4, 1477-1973
| Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Ingo Menrath, Pablo Emilio Verde, Johannes Siegrist
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This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise if an agent’s reward expectation is not met. Throughout the experiment we record agents’ heart rate variability. ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2011,
(SOEPpapers 380)
| Armin Falk, Ingo Menrath, Pablo Emilio Verde, Johannes Siegrist