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Life satisfaction and relative income : perceptions and evidence

Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009

Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a...

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Do tuition fees affect the mobility of university applicants? : evidence from a natural experiment

Dwenger, Nadja; Storck, Johanna; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009

Germany, we estimate the effect of tuition fees on the probability of applying for a university in the home state. We find a …

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Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility? : evidence from a structural model

Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009

In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer...

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The phantom of the opera : cultural amenities, human capital, and regional economic growth

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2010

We analyze the extent to which endogenous cultural amenities affect the spatial equilibrium share of high-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in German history and exploit the exogenous spatial distribution of baroque opera houses built as a...

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The effects of a sick pay reform on absence and on health-related outcomes

Puhani, Patrick A.; Sonderhof, Katja - 2009

We evaluate the effects of a reduction in sick pay from 100 to 80% of the wage. Unlike previous literature, apart from absence from work, we also consider effects on doctor/hospital visits and subjective health indicators. We also add to the literature by estimating both switch-on and switch-off...

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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - 2012

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

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Beyond GDP and back : what is the value-added by additional components of welfare measurement?

New, Sonja C. de; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2011

Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...

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Do guns displace books? : the impact of compulsory military service on educational attainment

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - 2011

regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the …

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How learning a musical instrument affects the development of skills

Hille, Adrian; Schupp, Jürgen - 2013

Despite numerous studies on skill development, we know little about the causal effects of music training on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how long-term music training during childhood and youth affects the development of cognitive skills, school grades, personality,...

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The emotional timeline of unemployment : anticipation, reaction, and adaptation

Scheve, Christian von; Esche, Frederike; Schupp, Jürgen - 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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