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Does Unemployment Hurt Less if There is More of it Around? A Panel Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland
Oesch, Daniel - 2011
This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121282
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Self-Employment after Socialism : Intergenerational Links, Entrepreneurial Values, and Human Capital
Fritsch, Michael - 2012
post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the socialist regime significantly damaged this mechanism of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104020
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The Working Class Left Behind? The Class Gap in Life Satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland Over the Last Decades
Lipps, Oliver - 2018
The 1990s and 2000s were a gloomy period for Germany's working class, hit by mass unemployment, welfare retrenchment … and wage stagnation. We examine whether the growing economic disparity between the top and the bottom of Germany's class … life satisfaction and whether, over the last decades, this class gradient increased in Germany, relative to the comparison …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930731
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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2013
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits — the Big Five — on an individual’s decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014044236
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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2011
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits — the Big Five — on an individual’s decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187263
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The Feminization of Occupations and Change in Wages : A Panel Analysis of Britain, Germany and Switzerland
Murphy, Emily - 2015
remain in, or move into, feminizing occupations? We analzye this question over the 1990s and 2000s in Britain, Germany and … Switzerland and three percent in Germany. The impact of occupational feminization on wages is not linear, but sets apart …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028229