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The causal effect of paternal unemployment on children's personality

Angelini, Viola; Bertoni, Marco; Corazzini, Luca - 2015

Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that paternal unemployment has a surprisingly positive causal effect on the "Big 5" personality traits of children aged 17 to 25. In particular, our results from longitudinal value-added models for personality suggest...

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Personality and career : she's got what it takes

Jebsen, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - 2009

The female share in management positions is quite low in Germany. The higher the hierarchical level, the fewer women … boards of the top 200 private companies in Germany, only 2.5 percent of members are female. Many studies have focused on the … other white-collar employees in Germany's private sector. While bivariate results based on data from the German Socio …

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She's leaving home : a large sample investigation of the empty nest syndrome

Piper, Alan; Jackson, Ian - 2017

This study considers life satisfaction in relation to the empty nest syndrome, which is a situation where there are feelings of loss or loneliness for mothers and/or fathers following the departure of the last child from the parental home. In particular, the investigation considers the...

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Locus of control and investment in training

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Seitz, Helke; … - 2016

This paper extends standard models of work-related training by explicitly incorporating workers' locus of control into the investment decision. Our model both differentiates between general and specific training and accounts for the role of workers and firms in training decisions. Workers with...

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The influence of personality traits on private retirement savings in Germany

Schäfer, Konrad C. - 2016

by personality traits. With the 2002 to 2009 cross section of the Socio-Economic Panel for Germany (SOEP), it is …

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Compulsory military service and personality development

Schult, Johannes; Sparfeldt, Jörn R. - 2015

Compulsory military service is a uniformed life event disrupting the lives of young men (and sometimes women) in countries with conscription. Consequently, the development of personality and subjective well-being during service was investigated using representative population data from the...

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Let bygones be bygones? : socialist regimes and personalities in Germany

Friehe, Tim; Pannenberg, Markus; Wedow, Michael - 2015

This paper investigates the influence of political regimes on personality, using the separation of Germany into the …

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Positional income concers : prevalence and relationship with personality and economic preferences

Friehe, Tim; Mechtel, Mario; Pannenberg, Markus - 2014

This paper presents detailed evidence about who compares to whom in terms of relative income. We rely on representative survey data on the importance of income comparisons vis-a-vis seven reference groups, allowing us to exploit within-subject heterogeneity. We explore the prevalence and...

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Gender-specific personality traits and their effects on the gender wage gap : a correlated random effects approach using SOEP data

Otten, Sina - 2020

Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this article examines whether gender wage differentials occur due to differences in prototypical personality traits of women and men and provides the first application of a gender wage gap decomposition on the basis of a...

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Entrepreneurial success and subjective well-being : worries about the business explain one's well-being loss from self-employment

Binder, Martin - 2017

Despite lower incomes the self-employed often report higher job satisfaction. But this increased job satisfaction only sometimes translates into higher life satisfaction, likely due to the heterogeneous nature of self-employment. By distinguishingdifferent types of self-employment, this paper...

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