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We provide the first joint evidence on the relationship between individuals' cognitive abilities, their personality and earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a set of measures of personality traits, namely locus of control, reciprocity and all basic items from the Five Factor Personality Inventory. Our estimates ...
In:
Labour Economics
17 (2010), 3, 535–546
| Guido Heineck, Silke Anger
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Over the last decades the German education system underwent numerous reforms in order to improve “equality of opportunity”, i.e. to guarantee all pupils independent of parental background equal access to higher education. At the same time internationally comparative evidence yields that Germany features particularly low intergenerational mobility with respect to educational attainment. This study investigates ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
229 (2009), 1, 36-60
| Guido Heineck, Regina T. Riphahn
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Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2003,
(IZA DP No. 743)
| Guido Heineck, Johannes Schwarze
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Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2004,
(IZA DP No. 1358)
| Guido Heineck, Johannes Schwarze
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What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of convergence with regard to individuals’ trust and risk, as well as perceived fairness and cooperativeness. Our hypotheses are derived from a model of German reunification ...
In:
Journal of Comparative Economics
41 (2013), 3, 789-803
| Guido Heineck, Bernd Süssmuth
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It is well known that individuals’ risk attitudes are related to behavioral outcomes such as smoking, portfolio decisions, and also educational attainment, but there is barely any evidence on whether parental risk attitudes affect the educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children’s secondary school track choice in Germany where tracking occurs at age ten ...
In:
Economics of Education Review
31 (2012), 5, 727-743
| Guido Heineck, Oliver Wölfel
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Working time arrangements determine, to a large extent, the successful balancing of work and family life. This study investigates the role of working time preferences and hours mismatch for well-being among couples. The empirical evidence indicates that well-being is generally lower among those with working time mismatch. Particularly underemployment is detrimental for well-being. We further provide ...
In:
Labour Economics
24 (2013), October 2013, 244-252
| Guido Heineck, Christoph Wunder
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Berlin:
Rat für Sozial- und WirtschaftsDaten (RatSWD),
2009,
(RatSWD Working Paper No. 129)
| Jörg Heining
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Edinburgh:
Heriot-Watt University,
1999,
| Georges Heinrich
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Syracuse:
Syracuse University, Maxwell School,
2003,
(Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 344)
| Georges Heinrich