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This chapter explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of preferences, constraints, and information. Evidence is reviewed about the “situational specificity” of personality traits and preferences. An extreme version of the ...
In:
Erik A. Hanushek, Stephen Machin, Ludger Wößmann ,
Handbook of the Economics of Education (Volume 4)
Amsterdam: Elsevier
1-181
| Mathilde Almlund, Angela Lee Duckworth, James J. Heckman, Tim Kautz
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Differdange:
CEPS/INSTEAD,
2003,
(CHER Document No. 7)
| César Alonso-Borrego, Sergi Jiménez Martin
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Despite the obvious existence of civil society organizations (CSOs) and forms of civic engagement, the data available for this sector remains inadequate. This expert report provides a comprehensive view of the current data situation, reveals existing gaps, and offers suggestions on how these gaps might be closed. The empirical material currently provided by existing data sources - the Federal Statistical ...
Berlin:
Rat für Sozial- und WirtschaftsDaten (RatSWD),
2009,
(RatSWD Working Paper No. 92)
| Mareike Alscher, Eckhard Priller
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Despite the obvious existence of civil society organizations (CSOs) and forms of civic engagement, the data available for this sector remain inadequate. This advisory report provides a comprehensive view of the current data situation, reveals existing gaps, and offers suggestions on how these gaps might be closed. The empirical material currently provided by existing data sources – the Federal Statistical ...
In:
Rat für Sozial- und WirtschaftsDaten (RatSWD) ,
Building on Progress. Expanding the Research Infrastructure for the Social, Economic, and Behavioral Sciences
Opladen: Budrich Unipress
1139-1152
| Mareike Alscher, Eckard Priller
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Syracuse:
Syracuse University, Maxwell School,
2001,
(Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 284)
| Pablo Beramendi Alvarez
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A regression of wages on firm tenure is likely to yield biased estimates of the returns to tenure because tenure and wages are confounded by unobserved attributes of the job and the unobserved quality of the match between the firm and the employee. Previously, the within-job variation in tenure has been used as an instrument to estimate the average returns to tenure. In this paper, we propose to use ...
In:
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society)
175 (2012), 1, 153-166
| Roland A. Amann, Tobias J. Klein
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Self-reported measures of health are generally treated as weak measures of respondents’ objective health status. On the other hand, most surveys use self-reported health to measure health status and to determine the effects of a range of other socio-economic characteristics of the local environment on individual health. It is therefore of interest to the public health research community to verify the ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2011,
(SOEPpapers 398)
| Jens Ambrasat, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
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Since 1 January 2015 a statutory minimum wage of € 8.50 per hour applies in Germany. In 2014 between 4.8 and 5.4 million employees still earned a lower hourly wage. Even if it cannot yet be stated exactly how many employees benefitted from the introduction of the minimum wage, above-average wage increases in the classical low-wage sectors indicate significant effects of the introduction of the ...
Düsseldorf:
Hans-Böckler-Stiftung,
2016,
(WSI Report 28e/2016)
| Marc Amlinger, Reinhard Bispinck, Thorsten Schulten
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Mannheim:
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW),
2003,
(ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-29)
| Andreas Ammermüller, Andrea M. Weber
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Mannheim:
Centre for European Economic Research,
2005,
(ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-17)
| Andreas Ammermüller, Andrea M. Weber