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Non-standard employment and labour force participation: A comparative view of the recent development in Europe

Schmid, Günther - 2010

This paper presents - in a new way of examination and portrayal - the extent and changes of nonstandard employment relationships (part-time work, fixed-term contracts, and selfemployment) in 24 EU member states at two points of time, in 1998 and 2008, on the basis of the European Labour Force...

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Non-Standard Employment and Labour Force Participation: A Comparative View of the Recent Development in Europe

Schmid, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper presents – in a new way of examination and portrayal – the extent and changes of nonstandard employment relationships (part-time work, fixed-term contracts, and self-employment) in 24 EU member states at two points of time, in 1998 and 2008, on the basis of the European Labour...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548712

Measuring trust: experiments and surveys in contrast and combination

Naef, Michael; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009

Trust is a concept that has attracted significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two decades: it has been applied in a number of contexts and has been investigated both as an explanatory and as a dependent variable. In this paper, we explore the questions of what...

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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 …

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A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2003

Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...

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Authentic happiness theory supported by impact of religion on life satisfaction: a longitudinal analysis with data for Germany

Headey, Bruce; Schupp, Jürgen; Tucci, Ingrid; Wagner, … - 2008

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP), this paper assesses the relationship between life …. This result holds net of the effects of personality traits, and also in fixed effects panel models. The paper has …. It is already clear from the German panel data that about 20% of the population have recorded large long term changes in …

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