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Does unemployment hurt less if there is more of it around? : a panel analysis of life satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland
Oesch, Daniel; Lipps, Oliver - 2011
? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may operate through a sociological channel: if many people in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269257
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Self-employment dynamics, state dependence and cross-mobility patterns
Caliendo, Marco; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2008
This paper analyzes the mobility between self-employment, wage employment and non-employment. Using data for men in West Germany, we find strong true state dependence in all three states. Moreover, compared to wage employment, non-employment increases the probability of self-employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634163
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The protestant fiscal ethic : religious confession and Euro skepticism in Germany
Chadi, Adrian; Krapf, Matthias - 2015
During the European sovereign debt crisis, most countries that ran into fiscal trouble had Catholic majorities, whereas countries with Protestant majorities were able to avoid fiscal problems. Survey data show that, within Germany, views on theeuro differ between Protestants and Non-Protestants,...
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A satisfaction-driven poverty indicator : a bustle around the poverty line
Juhász, Andos - 2012 - This version: 30. July 2012
Poverty line definitions in use often lack a solid scientific foundation. This paper proposes to exploit data on income satisfaction to construct an evidence-based poverty line. The poverty line is identified by using its assumed unique property to explain income dissatisfaction best among all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009578805
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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? : evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and private sectors
Lüchinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2008 - Version of: March 11, 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular, job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632445
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Precautionary saving and income uncertainty in Germany : new evidence from microdata
Bartzsch, Nikolaus - 2007
could be due to precautionary saving. In this paper, the importance of precautionary saving against income uncertainty is … alternative measures of income uncertainty in a cross-section of households. In addition to the usual controls, risk aversion is … about 20%. Compared with net financial wealth, housing wealth is not used as a buyer stock against income uncertainty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628826
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Dynamics of income rank volatility : evidence from Germany and the US
Chauvel, Louis; Hartung, Anne; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2017
This paper presents a methodology for comparing income rank volatility profiles over time and across distributions. While most of the existing measures are affected by changes in marginal distributions, this paper proposes a framework that is based on individuals’ relative positions in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011747288
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Perceived job insecurity and well-being revisited : towards conceptual clarity
Geishecker, Ingo - 2010
This paper analyzes the impact of job insecurity perceptions on individual well-being. In contrast to previous studies, we explicitly take into account perceptions about both the likelihood and the potential costs of job loss and demonstrate that most contributions to the literature suffer from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825072
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Robust estimation of wage dispersion with censored data : an application to occupational earnings risk and risk attitudes
Pollmann, Daniel; Dohmen, Thomas; Palm, Franz C. - 2013
We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009775634
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Measuring vulnerability to poverty using long-term panel data
Landau, Katja; Klasen, Stephan; Zucchini, Walter - 2012
We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and panel data. We use long-term panel data from Germany and apply different regression models, based on household covariates and previous-year equivalence income, to classify a...
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