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connection between fertility and labor force participation on the future demographic and economic development in Germany. For …
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In this paper, the relation between income inequality and population growth is analized from a Darwinian perspective. A Markov chain population growth model is presented and estimated using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We estimate both population growth rates and...
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data, we compare people's forecast of their life satisfaction in five years' time to their actual realisations later on …
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This article critically examines the theoretical arguments that underlie the literature linking personality traits to economic outcomes and provides empirical evidence indicating that labour market outcomes influence personality outcomes. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we...
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on the first twenty-two years of post-reunification Germany, using proportional hazards models. Results show that the re …
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Educational attainment, length of stay, differences in national background and language skills play an acknowledged important role for the integration of immigrants. But integration is also a social process, which suggests that psychological factors are relevant. This paper explores whether and...
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We use the panel data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to investigate whether risk attitudes have primary (exogenous) determinants that are valid in different stages of economic development and in a different structural context,...
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formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … couples in West (but not East) Germany diminished the wife's labor market outcomes in order to avoid situations where she … would earn more than him. However, the significance of the male breadwinner prescription seems to decline in West Germany …
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study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and …
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This paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades. During this period, graduates from the period of educational expansion entered the labour market and an upgrading of the skill structure took place. In order to tackle the issues...
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