Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 23
Cover Image
Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519443
Cover Image
On the Economics and Biology of Trust
Fehr, Ernst - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
In recent years, many social scientists have claimed that trust plays an important role in economic and social transactions. Despite its proposed importance, the measurement and the definition of trust seem to be not fully settled, and the identification of the exact role of trust in economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018701
Cover Image
Exposure to Television and Individual Beliefs: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Hennighausen, Tanja - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
Does the information provided by mass media have the power to persistently affect individual beliefs about the drivers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607550
Cover Image
Das Glück der Migranten: eine Lebenslaufanalyse zum subjektiven Wohlbefinden von Migranten der ersten Generation in Deutschland
Brockmann, Hilke - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
How happy are first-generation immigrants in Germany today? How do patterns of formal or informal discrimination affect their subjective life satisfaction? What is the effect of material and immaterial resources? What are the relevant standardsfor the evaluation of happiness? And how does the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255283
Cover Image
Testing the 'Residential Rootedness': Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK
Reuschke, Darja; Ham, Maarten Van - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
exit from selfemployment are associated with internal migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368913
Cover Image
Migrant's Pursuit of Happiness: The Impact of Adaption, Social Comparison and Relative Deprivation; Evidence from a 'Natural' Experiment
Melzer, Silvia Maja; Muffels, Ruud J. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
to inquire the impact of migration on subjective well-being (SWB). The main goal of the research is to assessing the … migration are affected by the way migrants adapt to their new economic conditions, by with whom migrants compare themselves … migration on SWB, although it is strongly suppressed by dissatisfaction resulting from the comparison of migrants' income with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818242
Cover Image
Kick It Like Özil?: Decomposing the Native-Migrant Education Gap
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to analyze the determinants of the persistent native-migrant gap. One part of the gap can be attributed to differences in socioeconomic background and another part remains unexplained....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128956
Cover Image
Messartefakte bei der Erfassung der Gesundheit von Migranten in Deutschland: zur interkulturellen Äquivalenz des SF-12-Fragebogen im Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP)
Schulz, Maike - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
Nur wenige Studien geben Aufschluss über den Gesundheitszustand der in Deutschland lebenden Migrantenbevölkerung und beschränken sich meist auf rein medizinische Kriterien. Die vorliegende Arbeit vergleicht auf Grundlage von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) den Gesundheitszustand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128959
Cover Image
Immigrant Fertility in Germany: The Role of Culture
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
This paper focuses on the role of home country’s fertility culture in shaping immigrants’ fertility. I use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first-generation immigrants who arrived from different countries and in different years. The variation in total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185781
Cover Image
Intertemporal Remittance Behaviour by Immigrants in Germany
Bettin, Giulia; Lucchetti, Riccardo - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
In this paper, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) in the 1997-2009 period for a large sample of migrants from 84 countries in order to develop an empirical model for the propensity by migrants to remit. Our model takes into full account the intertemporal aspects of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010601629