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Thriving middle classes are the backbone of democratic societies and strong economies, but in many countries, they face mounting pressure as their economic strength is eroding relative to higher-income households. Real wages and incomes for most middle-class households have grown only very slowly, and rising expenditures have been putting further pressure on living standards. Meanwhile, globalisation, ...
Paris:
OECD Publishing,
2021,
| OECD
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There is a vast literature on the determinants of subjective wellbeing. Yet, standard regression models explain little variation in wellbeing. We here use data from Germany, the UK, and the US to assess the potential of Machine Learning (ML) to help us better understand wellbeing. Compared to traditional models, ML approaches provide moderate improvements in predictive performance. Drastically expanding ...
Oxford:
Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School (INET Oxford),
2022,
(INET Oxford Working Paper No. 2022-11)
| Ekaterina Oparina, Caspar Kaiser, Niccolò Gentile, Alexandre Tkatchenko, Andrew E. Clark, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Conchita D'Ambrosio
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This study sheds light on whether the provision of information on costs, financing options, and returns of college education results in higher application and college enrollment rates. Based on a behavioral intervention with more than 1,000 high school students in Germany, we provide evidence that the provision of such information increases college application and enrollment rates, in particular for ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
190 (2021), October 2021, 524-549
| Frauke Peter, C. Katharina Spieß, Vaishali Zambre
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In dieser Dissertation wird die Beziehung zwischen Arbeitsplatzmerkmalen und dem subjektiven Wohlbefinden von Arbeitnehmern untersucht. Das Wohlbefinden wird in diesem Zusammenhang als ein Konzept verstanden, das aus drei Dimensionen besteht. Diese Dimensionen umfassen die Arbeitszufriedenheit, den ungesunden Lebensstil sowie die krankheitsbedingten Fehltage von Arbeitnehmern. Es wird analysiert inwiefern ...
2022,
| Maike Rubin
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Kinder wachsen und verändern sich ganz offensichtlich im Laufe der Zeit, aber nicht nur sie. Menschen verändern sich über ihre gesamte Lebensspanne. Empirisch belegt ist, dass sich auch die Persönlichkeit von Erwachsenen (d.h.: Offenheit für Erfahrungen, Gewissenhaftigkeit, Extraversion, Verträglichkeit, Neurotizismus) und ihr soziales Leben (z.B.: Größe des sozialen Netzwerks) bis ins hohe Alter verändern. ...
2022,
| Julia Sander
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Public opinion climates on immigrants are subject to certain dynamics. This study examines two mechanisms for such dynamics in Western EU member states for the 2002–2018 period. First, the impact of cohort replacement and, second, the impact of periodic threat perceptions, namely, changing macroeconomic conditions and shifts in immigration rates. To date, empirical research on anti-immigrant sentiments ...
In:
International Journal of Comparative Sociology
62 (2021), 4, 281-310
| Katja Schmidt
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We analyse the causal effect of education on patience (also known as time preference) and risk willingness using the German compulsory schooling reform, which took effect in West Germany after World War II. This reform increased compulsory schooling from 8 years to 9 years. We use two-stage least squares to obtain causal effects. In line with the literature, the results show a positive effect of education ...
In:
Applied Economics
54 (2022), 58, 6687-6702
| Beatrice Baaba Tawiah
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This doctoral thesis contributes to research on over-time trends in the intergenerational transmission of inequality in two major European societies. Paper 1 entitled ‘Intergenerational Class Mobility of Labour Market Entrants in Germany and the UK since the 1950s’ shows that absolute mobility between parents’ social class and their children’s first social class has continuously changed. Still, increases ...
2021,
| Nhat An Trinh
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Introduction: Control beliefs can protect against age-related declines in functioning. It is unclear whether neighborhood characteristics shape how much control people perceive over their life. This article studies associations of neighborhood characteristics with control beliefs of residents of a diverse metropolitan area (Berlin, Germany). Methods: We combine self-report data about perceptions of ...
In:
Gerontology
68 (2022), 2, 214-223
| Johanna Drewelies, Peter Eibich, Sandra Düzel, Simone Kühne, Christian Krekel, Jan Goebel, Jens Kolbe, Ilja Demuth, Ulman Lindenberger, Gert G. Wagner, Denis Gerstorf
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Most countries still have a significant gender gap in labor force participation, and this gap is especially large for immigrants. Despite this gap, Germany introduced various forms of home care allowances in the last decade. Parallel to the extension of early child care and the inclusion of a legal claim for it, from 2013 to 2015, a nationwide home care allowance existed for parents who did not use ...
In:
SN Social Sciences
2 (2022), 7, 93
| Tanja Fendel, Beate Jochimsen