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Measuring Trust : Experiments and Surveys in Contrast and Combination

Naef, Michael - 2009

Trust is a concept that has attracted - significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two … experiments claiming to measure trust, and how these different measures are related. Using nationally representative data, we test … a commonly used experimental measure of trust for robustness to a number of interferences, finding it to be mostly …

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Members of German Federal Parliament More Risk-Loving than General Population

Heß, Moritz - 2013

The article analyzes the question of whether career politicians differ systematically from the general population in terms of their attitudes toward risk. A written survey of members of the 17th German Bundestag in late 2011 identified their risk attitudes, and the survey data was set in...

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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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Worries Across Time and Age in Germany : Bringing Together Open- and Close-Ended Questions

Rohrer, Julia - 2017

We investigate how worries in Germany change across time and age, drawing on both closed-ended questions (which typically list a number of worry items) and open-ended questions answered in text format. We find that relevant world events influence worries. For example, worries about peace peaked...

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The Social Comparison Scale : Testing the Validity, Reliability, and Applicability of the Iowa-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM) on the German Population

Schneider, Simone; Schupp, Jürgen - 2011

Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people’s opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological...

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Self-Employment after Socialism : Intergenerational Links, Entrepreneurial Values, and Human Capital

Fritsch, Michael - 2012

Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development – parental role models – for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the...

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A Factorial Survey on the Justice of Earnings within the SOEP-Pretest 2008

Liebig, Stefan - 2009

In the 2008 Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) Pretest, the factorial survey method was tested for the first time for use in the SOEP longitudinal study. In this paper, we describe the construction and application of the vignette module, which has its origins in the field of justice research and...

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Die Geographie der kreativen Klasse in Deutschland

Fritsch, Michael; Stützer, Michael - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung 65 (2007) 1, pp. 15-29

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Regionale Innovationspotentiale und innovative Netzwerke

Fritsch, Michael (contributor) - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung 56 (1998) 4, pp. 243-252

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Öffentliche Forschungseinrichtungen im regionalen Innovationssystem: Ergebnisse einer Untersuchung in drei deutschen Regionen

Fritsch, Michael; Schwirten, Christian - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung 56 (1998) 4, pp. 253-263

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