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A factorial survey on the justice of earnings within the SOEP-pretest 2008
Sauer, Carsten; Liebig, Stefan; Auspurg, Katrin; Hinz, … - 2009
In the 2008 Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) Pretest, the factorial survey method was tested for the first time for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932138
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Seemingly irrelevant events affect economic perceptions and expectations : the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural experiment
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006
"Prominent economic theories have emphasized the role of commonly held perceptions and expectations for determining macroeconomic outcomes. A key empirical question is how such collectively held beliefs are formed. We use the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural experiment. We provide direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003359287
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Does class size matter for school tracking outcomes after elementary school? : quasi-experimental evidence using administrative panel data from Germany
Argaw, Bethlehem A.; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2017
We use administrative panel data on about a quarter of a million students in the German state of Hesse to estimate the … quasi-random assignment of students to different class sizes based on maximum class size rules. In Germany, students are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011775947
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Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms : self-selection, learning from importing, or both?
Vogel, Alexander (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008
-by-importing. -- Imports ; exports ; productivity ; enterprise panel data ; Germany …This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to … document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779041
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Homo reciprocans : survey evidence on prevalence, behavior and success
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006
Experimental evidence has convincingly shown the existence of reciprocal inclinations, i.e., a tendency for people to respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) the prevalence of reciprocity in the population, (ii) individual determinants of reciprocity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003348535
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Dynamics of poor health and non-employment
Haan, Peter; Myck, Michał - 2009
and labour market instability is not well understood. Using twelve years of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel we … of individual characteristics. Applying dynamic panel estimation we identify the mechanism through which poor health … persistence in the dynamics of poor health and non-employment. -- Health ; non-employment ; risk ; ageing ; dynamic panel data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832268
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Life satisfaction and relative income : perceptions and evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a 2008 module of the German-Socio Economic Panel Study we ask … ; relative income ; life satisfaction ; German Socio Economic Panel Study ; SOEP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003895798
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The KfW/ZEW start-up panel : design and research potential
Fryges, Helmut; Gottschalk, Sandra; Kohn, Karsten - 2009
Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the … ; panel data ; Germany …So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900570
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Sundays are blue : aren't they? ; the day-of-the-week effect on subjective well-being and socio-economic status
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter - 2009
using a large panel data set and controlling for observed and unobserved individual characteristics, we find a large day …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003918937
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Migration and the wage curve : a structural approach to measure the wage and employment effects of migration
Brücker, Herbert (contributor); Jahn, Elke J. (contributor) - 2008
Based on a wage curve approach we examine the labor market effects of migration in Germany. The wage curve relies on … affected. -- Migration ; wage curve ; labor demand ; panel data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003684465