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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and Private Sectors
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private … unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600752
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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed?: Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and Private Sectors
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private … unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017424
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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment
Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - 2009
While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600839
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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment
Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018699
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Gender identity and wives' labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016
Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019
We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994656
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Undoing gender with institutions: Lessons from the German division and reunification
Lippmann, Quentin; Georgieff, Alexandre; … - 2019
Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009511
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Math, girls and socialism
Lippmann, Quentin; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2018
gender gap in math is due to social stereotypes; (2) institutions can durably modify these stereotypes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011936655
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Law and social capital: Evidence from the Code Napoleon in Germany
Buggle, Johannes C. - 2013
Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317548
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Law and Social Capital: Evidence from the Code Napoleon in Germany
Buggle, Johannes C. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896247
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Women between Part-Time and Full-Time Work: The Influence of Changing Hours of Work on Happiness and Life-Satisfaction
Gash, Vanessa; Mertens, Antje; Gordo, Laura Romeu - 2010
This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as workers freely choose their optimal working hours on the basis of their innate preferences and the hourly wage rate, outcome reflects preference. This paper tests this assumption by...
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