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This article examines the evolution of the gender wealth gap in Germany during the first decade of the XXI century. This period is characterized by an increase in labour supply of women and change in occupational structure due to numerous reforms undertaken by the government. We use the Firpo, Fortin, Lemieux detailed decomposition technique throughout the wealth distribution to identify the main factors ...
In:
B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
24 (2024), 4, 1045–1071
| Eva Sierminska, Daniela Piazzalunga, Markus Grabka
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Background: If a new job is located in a different region from the place of residence, individuals or households can choose between moving or commuting. However, so far mobility alternatives and their drivers remain under-researched from a comparative perspective. Objective: We investigate the determinants of the mobility choices of individuals who have taken a distant job (50 km or more), considering ...
In:
Demographic Research
50 (2024), 33, 967-1004
| Thomas Skora, Heiko Rüger, Knut Petzold
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This study investigates the impact of sexual orientation on earnings in the German labour market. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel survey from the year 2020, I analyse wage differentials between heterosexual and non-heterosexual workers. The findings reveal that nonheterosexual men earn approximately 7.7%less than their heterosexual counterparts, while lesbian or bisexual women experience a ...
2024,
| Jiayi Song
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We study the effect of education on health (hospital stays, number of diagnosed conditions, self-rated poor health, and obesity) over the life-cycle in Germany, using compulsory schooling reforms as a source of exogenous variation. Our results suggest a positive correlation of health and education which increases over the life-cycle. We do not, however, find any positive local average treatment effects ...
Essen:
RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung,
2023,
(Ruhr Economic Papers #1006)
| Hendrik Schmitz, Beatrice Baaba Tawiah
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, people had two important but imperfect teachers of risk. First, they learned about incidence, mortality rates, and reproduction numbers from reports and graphs. Second, they learned about the risk of infection through their own experience and the experience of others. Personal experience has been found to serve as an input for risk judgments in numerous contexts, including ...
In:
Journal of Risk Research
27 (2024), 3, 438-457
| Michael Schulte-Mecklenbeck, Gert G. Wagner, Ralph Hertwig
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Wie entwickelt sich die Persönlichkeit mit dem Alter? Obwohl diese Frage in der Forschung großes Interesse erlangt hat, besteht weiterhin Unsicherheit über die genaue Altersentwicklung der Persönlichkeit. Die vorliegende Dissertation umfasst zwei Artikel, die sich mit heterogenen Befunden zum Einfluss des Alters auf verschiedene Konzepte von Stabilität und Veränderung der Big-Five-Persönlichkeitseigenschaften ...
2024,
| Ingo Sven Seifert
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Like all modern Western societies, Germany is a multilingual country. While German is the most widely spoken language, both as a first language and as an everyday language, residents who do not have German as their first language but another language (or several other languages) and/or who use another language (or several other languages) in their everyday life besides, are estimated to make up about ...
In:
Alexandra N. Lenz, Barbara Soukup, Wolfgang Koppensteiner ,
Standard Languages in Germanic-Speaking Europe: Attitudes and Perception (Standard Language Ideology in Contemporary Europe 4)
Oslo: Novus Press
2022
121-150
| Albrecht Plewnia
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Background The governments of democracies worldwide are relying on the active cooperation of their populations to combat COVID-19. Simultaneously, beliefs in conspiracy theories surrounding the pandemic have flourished. The present article examines the effects of the big five personality traits and conspiracy beliefs on the intention to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in Germany. Methods This correlational, ...
In:
Journal of Infection and Public Health
17 (2024), 9, 102519
| Stefan Poier, Anna Maria Nikodemska-Wołowik
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Currently, there is no theory that identifies the ideal personality type for sports coaches. The study’s goal is to gain insight into the personalities of German basketball coaches and use existing study results from other professional groups to make recommendations for the content of coaches’ education. Given the German Olympic Sports Federation’s emphasis on comprehensive coach education that includes ...
In:
German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research
54 (2024), 354-365
| Johannes Wunder, Maximilian Priem, Gert G. Wagner, Oliver Stoll
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A negative reputation shock to one charity can affect similar charities positively through substitution, or negatively through collective reputation. Using sentiment analysis on media coverage, I identify large shocks and link directly affected charities to other charities by the textual similarity of their missions. I find that a negative shock increases donations to similar charities, but this effect ...
2022,
(SSRN Working Paper)
| Derrick Xu