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Perks and pitfalls of city directories as a micro-geographic data source
Albers, Thilo N. H.; Kappner, Kalle - 2022
Historical city directories are rich sources of micro-geographic data. They provide information on the location of households and firms and their occupations and industries, respectively. We develop a generic algorithmic work flow that converts scans of them into geo- and status-referenced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191584
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Local knowledge spillovers and innovation persistence of firms
Holl, Adelheid; Peters, Bettina; Rammer, Christian - 2020
Recent empirical evidence has shown that firm’s innovation behavior exhibits high persistency but not much is known about potential contingencies affecting the degree of persistence. This paper focuses on the role of the local knowledge environment and asks how local knowledge spillovers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167049
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Income support, (un-)employment and well-being
Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016
Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the non-pecuniary life satisfaction … analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working … makes people generally better off than being unemployed, but employed welfare recipients do not reach the life satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011513025
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The impact of weather shocks on employment outcomes : evidence from South Africa
Brookes Gray, Harriet; Taraz, Vis; Halliday, Simon D. - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012879896
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Working longer, working stronger? : the forward-looking effects of increasing the retirement age on (un)employment behaviour
Gohl, Niklas - 2023
increase in the working horizon on (un)employment behaviour for individuals with a long remaining statutory working life. Using … probability of employment, decreases the probability of unemployment, and increases the intensity of job search among the … unemployed. Heterogeneity analyses show that the demonstrated employment effects are strongest for women and in occupations with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014245855
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Does relative income matter? : are the critics right?
Layard, Peter R. G. (contributor); Mayraz, Guy (contributor) - 2009
level of life-satisfaction: income comparisons emerge as much the more important. 3) When in our U.S. analysis we introduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003868078
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Life satisfaction and relative income : perceptions and evidence
Mayraz, Guy (contributor); Wagner, Gert G. (contributor);  … - 2009
In questions inserted into the 2008 module of the German-Socio Economic Panel we ask subjects to report their income relative to different reference groups, such as fellow employees, other people in their profession, same age and same gender groups, friends, and neighbours. In addition subjects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003868522
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The marginal utility of income
Layard, Peter R. G. (contributor); Mayraz, Guy (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003440205
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Right-wing extremism and the well-being of immigrants
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931691
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Income, happiness, and the disutility of labor
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2009
. -- Happiness ; life satisfaction ; income ; disutility of labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003876027