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Abstract International trade in services has increased significantly in recent decades, mainly due to innovations in information and communication technology. This development has also increased the importance of service offshoring, as companies spread their production processes across several countries. This paper examines the intensity of offshoring of specific tasks of occupations, which in turn ...
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The World Economy
47 (2024), 4, 1615-1641
| Michael Frenkel, Ngoc Tuyet Ngo
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The literature on the effects of incentives in survey research is vast and covers a diversity of survey modes. The mode of probability-based online panels, however, is still young and so is research into how to best recruit sample units into the panel. This paper sheds light on the effectiveness of a specific type of incentive in this context: a monetary incentive that is paid conditionally upon panel ...
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Social Science Computer Review
41 (2023), 2, 370-389
| Sabine Friedel, Barbara Felderer, Ulrich Krieger, Carina Cornesse, Annelies G. Blom
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Relying on the epidemiological approach, we show that culture is a significant driver of household saving behavior. Second-generation immigrants from countries that put strong emphasis on thrift or wealth accumulation tend to save more in Germany. We confirm these results in data from the United Kingdom. By linking parents to their children, we show that these two cultural components affect the saving ...
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Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
52 (2020), 5, 1035-1070
| Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Paolo Massella, Hannah Paule-Paludkiewicz
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Risk attitudes play a pivotal role to understand economic decision-making, and several measures are used to elicit them in the lab and survey them in the field. We provide a literature review on the most commonly used risk elicitation methods by Holt and Laury (HL) and the Investment Game (IG) by Gneezy and Potters and the General Risk Question (GRQ) utilized in the German Socioeconomic Panel. Based ...
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Risk Management and Insurance Review
26 (2023), 3, 367-392
| Christine Gaertner, Petra Steinorth
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How did the large asylum-seeker inflow to Germany in 2015 affect concerns about immigration? Using individual-level panel data for the years 2012–2018 and a policy that allocates asylum-seekers to districts, I identify the effect of exposure to asylum-seekers. In line with the contact hypothesis, living in a high refugee migration district reduced concerns about immigration by 3 pp. Alternatively, ...
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European Journal of Political Economy
78 (2023), 102323
| Katia Gallegos Torres
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Income inequality and poverty risks receive a lot of attention in public debates and current research. To make income comparable across different types of households, applying the “(modified) OECD scale” – an equivalence scale with fixed weights for each household type – has become a quasi-standard in research. Instead, we derive a base-dependent equivalence scale allowing for scale weights that vary ...
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The Journal of Economic Inequality
19 (2021), 4, 855-873
| Jan Marvin Garbuszus, Notburga Ott, Sebastian Pehle, Martin Werding
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We examine whether the effects of the introduction of a minimum wage on low-pay employment duration in Germany in 2015 are heterogeneous by gender. In order to disentangle the effects on women and men, we estimate a duration model with unobserved heterogeneity in which we allow gender differences and differences before and after the introduction of the minimum wage. We find that the reform does affect ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
244 (2024), 1-2, 83-112
| Eva García-Morán, Ming-Jin Jiang, Heiko Rachinger
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This study investigates the effects of different types of capital and gender on the choice of German adolescents' favourite sports. According to Bourdieu's theoretical framework, cultural, social, and economic capital as well as gender are expected to influence this choice because of individuals' habitus. Data from several waves (2000-2018) of the youth questionnaire of the German Socio-Economic ...
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European Journal for Sport and Society
21 (2023), 1, 86–103
| Sebastian Gehrmann, Uta Czyrnick-Leber, Pamela Wicker
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Objectives: To examine whether patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) are less likely to have a partner or children than individuals from the general population. Methods: Longitudinal study with two assessments of the same patients (n = 244) from a hospital population and controls (n = 238) from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) using parental education, patients age, and sex as matching ...
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Congenital Heart Disease
18 (2023), 3, 337-348
| Siegfried Geyer, Claudia Dellas, Thomas Paul, Matthias Müller, Kambiz Norozi
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Relations to family and friends are a key dimension of an individual’s social integration and, by extension, are crucial for the social cohesion of societies. Based on that principle, this study explores the effects of unemployment on close personal relations and asks whether negative effects of unemployment are primarily explicable as financial losses or social aspects of identity. This analytical ...
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KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
75 (2023), Suppl 1, 357–386
| Carlotta Giustozzi