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We develop a theoretical labour market model with two generations of workers, endogenous social networks of parents and binary schooling choices of children. Since the market skill premium is unobservable, families rely on noisy wage information obtained from their social contacts giving rise to heterogeneous expectations across families. If social networks are subject to skill homophily and high skill ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
218 (2024), February 2024, 146-175
| Erdenebulgan Damdinsuren, Mariya V. Mitkova, Anna Zaharieva
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Classical theories hypothesize individual economic preferences, including preferences toward risk, time, and trust, as determinants for migration intention. In the paper, we combine data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, European Social Survey, and World Values Survey to investigate how immigrants to Germany are self-selected from the origin population based on their preferences. We find a higher ...
2022,
(SSRN Working Paper)
| Sumit S. Deole, Crystal Zhan
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This paper investigates how non-cognitive skills, e.g., memory, empathy, attention, imagination, and social skills – measured by personality characteristics – relate to the relative labour market performance of immigrants. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Five-Factor Model of personality as a proxy for the non-cognitive skills, we show that these skills matter for the labour market ...
In:
PLOS ONE
18 (2023), 5, e0281048
| Alpaslan Akay, Levent Yilmaz
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There has been a revival of warfare and threats of interstate war in recent years as the number of countries engaged in armed conflict surged dramatically, reaching to levels unprecedented since the end of Cold War. This is happening at a time when the global burden of mental health illness is also on the rise. We examine the causal impact of early life exposure to warfare on long–term mental health, ...
Cambridge:
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER),
2022,
(NBER Working Paper 30284)
| Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Erdal Tekin, Belgi Turan
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We propose that false beliefs about the own current economic status are an important factor for explaining populist attitudes. Along with the subjects' receptiveness to right-wing populism, we elicit their perceived relative income positions in a representative survey of German households. We find that people with pessimistic beliefs about their income position are more attuned to populist statements. ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2022,
(SOEPpapers 1177)
| Thilo N. H. Albers, Felix Kersting, Fabian Kosse
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Background: Self-reported time-use in relation to health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has been widely studied, yet less is known about the directionality of the association and how it compares across genders when controlling for sociodemographic confounders. Methods: This study focused on the working population of the most recent waves (2013–2018) of the Core-Study of the German Socio-Economic Panel ...
In:
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
20 (2022), 1, 151
| Laura Altweck, Samuel Tomczyk, Silke Schmidt
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We investigate how locus of control beliefs – the extent to which individuals attribute control over events in their life to themselves as opposed to outside factors – affect prosocial behavior and the private provision of public goods. We begin by developing a conceptual framework showing how locus of control beliefs serve as a weight placed on the returns from one’s own contributions (impure altruism) ...
Cambridge:
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER),
2022,
(NBER Working Paper 30359)
| Mark A. Andor, James Cox, Andreas Gerster, Michael Price, Stephan Sommer, Lukas Tomberg
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Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in March 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of how school curricula affect students in the classroom and beyond. Chapter 2 demonstrates ...
München:
ifo Institut,
2022,
(ifo Beiträge zur Wirtschaftsforschung 99)
| Benjamin W. Arold
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Although everyone would agree that bereavement is extremely stressful, surprisingly little is known about changes in different facets of affective well-being in the years surrounding the death of a loved one. On the basis of the Socio-Economic Panel Study, we examined changes in cognitive well-being (life satisfaction) and different facets of affective well-being (happiness, sadness, anxiety, and anger) ...
In:
Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being
15 (2023), 2, 451-465
| Eva Asselmann, Jule Specht
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We examine how changes in task content over time condition occupational wage development. Using survey data from Germany, we document substantial heterogeneity in within-occupational changes in task content. Combining this evidence with administrative data on individual employment outcomes over a 25-year period, we find important heterogeneity in wage penalties amongst initially routine intensive jobs. ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2022,
(IZA DP No. 15647)
| Ronald Bachmann, Gökay Demir, Colin Green, Arne Uhlendorff