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The Emotional Timeline of Unemployment: Anticipation, Reaction, and Adaptation

Scheve, Christian von; Esche, Frederike; Schupp, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted increasing attention. Although many studies have documented...

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Multidimensional Well-Being at the Top: Evidence for Germany

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported...

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Inequality Aversion and Risk Attitudes

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Ramos, Xavier - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect...

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Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and the Criminal Activity of the "Children of the Wall"

Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …

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Knowledge society and crime: an ambiguous relation

Pelletan, Jacques - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

conditions under which the involvement of a country in a “knowledge society” produces a decrease in crime level. …

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Stealing to Survive : Crime and Income Shocks in 19th Century France

Galbiati, Roberto; Caroli, Eve; Bignon, Vincent - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014

Using local administrative data from 1826 to 1936, we document the evolution of crime rates in 19th century France and … we estimate the impact of a negative income shock on crime. Our identification strategy exploits the phylloxera crisis … this shock to identify its impact on property and violent crime rates, as well as minor offences. Our estimates suggest …

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The Effect of Local Crime on Well-Being: Evidence for Germany

Krekel, Christian; Poprawe, Marie L. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

This paper investigates the effect of local crime on well-being in Germany, using data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP) and a novel data set constructed from official police crime statistics, covering both counties and urban … districts for the time period between 1994 and 2012. We find that local area crime has a significantly negative impact on life …

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