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By exploiting the unique social and economic differences between East and West Germany, the authors investigated how macro-level opportunities interact with couple-level decision making to explain gender differences in the determinants and economic outcomes of household migration. By incorporating regional socioeconomic conditions into household bargaining theory, 4 hypotheses for each region were ...
In:
Journal of Marriage and Family
78 (2016), 4, 1063-1082
| Natascha Nisic, Silvia Maja Melzer
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In:
Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan, Timothy M. Smeeding ,
The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality
Oxford: Oxford University Press
315-341
| Brian Nolan, Ive Marx
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In:
Review of Income and Wealth
51 (2005), 4, 537-560
| Brian Nolan, Timothy M. Smeeding
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In:
Stephen P. Jenkins, John Micklewright ,
Inequality and Poverty Re-examined
Oxford: Oxford University Press
146-165
| Brian Nolan, Christopher T. Whelan
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This study investigates whether children and parents show a similar willingness to take risk in their choice of occupation. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we calculate the occupational variation in earnings unexplained by human capital differences to obtain a measure of occupational risk. We find that fathers' earnings risk is significantly positively related to sons' earnings ...
In:
European Economic Review
65 (2014), January 2014, 66-89
| Sarah Necker, Andrea Voskort
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Exploiting the "natural experiment" of German reunification, we study whether socialism has an enduring effect on people's basic values. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we show that individuals that lived in the German Democratic Republic assign different importance to six out of nine values. The first subsequent generation differs in a similar way from their West German ...
In:
European Journal of Political Economy
36 (2014), Dec. 2014, 177-194
| Sarah Necker, Andrea Voskort
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Using harmonized household survey data, we analyse long run social mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany and test recent theories of multigenerational persistence of socio-economic status. In this country comparison setting we find evidence against Gregory Clark’s “universal law of social mobility”. In general, our results show that the long run persistence of socio-economic status tends to vary ...
In:
Review of Income and Wealth
65 (2016), 2, 383-414
| Guido Neidhöfer, Maximilian Stockhausen
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In:
Journal of Public Health
13 (2005), 5, 270-278
| Gudrun Neises, Christian Grüneberg
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Syracuse:
Syracuse University, Maxwell School,
2004,
(Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 372)
| Kenneth Nelson
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Luxembourg:
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS),
2008,
(Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 474)
| Kenneth Nelson