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How Important Is the Family? Evidence from Sibling Correlations in Permanent Earnings in the US, Germany and Denmark
Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2011
. This holds true for brothers and sisters. In Denmark 20 percent of the inequality in permanent earnings can be attributed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601007
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How Important Is the Family?: Evidence from Sibling Correlations in Permanent Earnings in the US, Germany and Denmark
Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
. This holds true for brothers and sisters. In Denmark 20 percent of the inequality in permanent earnings can be attributed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868114
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Inequality of opportunity in wealth: Levels, trends, and drivers
Graeber, Daniel; Hilbert, Viola; König, Johannes - 2023
While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is … and for a detailed decomposition of net wealth inequality into a variety of circumstances; among them childhood background … that about 62% of the inequality in net wealth is due to circumstances. The most important circumstances are …
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Reference-dependent effects of unemployment on mental well-being
Grunow, Martina - 2014
This paper provides an empirical analysis of reference-dependent effects of unemployment on mental well-being. We show that the negative effect of unemployment on mental well-being depends on expectations about the future employment status. Several contributions to the literature have shown that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334236
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Your spouse is fired! How much do you care?
Nikolova, Milena; Ayhan, Sinem H. - 2016
This study is the first to provide a causal estimate of the subjective well-being effects of spousal unemployment at the couple level. Using German panel data on married and cohabiting partners for 1991-2013 and information on exogenous job termination induced by workplace closure, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594508
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Worrying about work? Disentangling the relationship between economic insecurity and mental health
Fiedler, Paul - 2021
Literature encompassing economic insecurity and its relationship with mental health has increased significantly in recent years. While the association of job insecurity and mental health has been researched extensively, less is known about the general relationship between economic insecurity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643584
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Re-employment expectations and the eye of providence
Kassenboehmer, Sonja C.; Schatz, Sonja G. - 2014
Using a nationally representative panel dataset, this study investigates the extent and impact of systematic misconceptions of the currently unemployed concerning their statistical re-employment probability, affecting their labor market behavior in a sub-optimal way. Specifically, people with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421047
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Job loss fears and (extremist) party identification: First evidence from panel data
Geishecker, Ingo; Siedler, Thomas - 2012
There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290724
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Arbeitszeitrealitäten und Arbeitszeitwünsche in Deutschland: Methodische Unterschiede ihrer Erfassung im SOEP und Mikrozensus
Holst, Elke; Bringmann, Julia - 2016
Die Debatte um Arbeitszeiten und deren Regulierung wird in der deutschen Öffentlichkeit erneut geführt. Empirische Grundlage sind dabei häufig Studien auf Basis des Mikrozensus oder des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP), die teilweise erhebliche Unterschiede in ihren Ergebnissen aufweisen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531199
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Re-employment Expectations and the Eye of Providence
Kassenboehmer, Sonja C.; Schatz, Sonja G. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
Using a nationally representative panel dataset, this study investigates the extent and impact of systematic misconceptions of the currently unemployed concerning their statistical re-employment probability, affecting their labor market behavior in a sub-optimal way. Specifically, people with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011267907