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were much more likely to suffer income losses than employees. Among the self-employed, women were 35% more likely to … experience income losses than men, as women are disproportionately working in industries that are more severely affected by the …
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Despite much recent changes in gender relations, housework remains an area where women bear primary responsibility …. This paper examines the role of policy and employment context on housework, not only for women who live with partners, but … also for single women. I study German women's housework in the decade after unification, which allows me to simultaneously …
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This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as … find decreases in working-hours bring about positive and significant improvement on well-being for women. …
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This paper examines why German men marry women from countries which are less economically developed. Two hypotheses … the economic gap between their countries of origin, German men can marry comparatively more attractive women on the … spouse on the German marriage market, which in turn increases the likelihood of them seeking marriage with women from poorer …
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Entrepreneurs and freelancers, the self-employed, commonly are characterized as not only to be relatively rich in income but also as to be rich in time because of their time-sovereignty in principle. Our introducing study scrutinises these results and notions about the well-being situation of...
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. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over …. Overweight women are less satisfied than others while this is not confirmed for underweight men from eastern Germany. When … health estimates while satisfaction results fluctuate. Underweight women and especially underweight men tend to less …
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The well-documented positive correlation between income risk and wealth was interpreted as evidence for high amounts of precautionary wealth in various studies. However, the large estimates emerged from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs without controlling for heterogeneity. This paper...
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German Socio-Economic Panel data is used to show that the decrease in life satisfaction caused by an increase in the probability of losing work is higher when self-employed than when paid employed. Further estimations reveal that becoming unemployed reduces self-employed workers' satisfaction...
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in self-employment for a one standard deviation change in the 2D:4D when we pool results for men and women (the … association does not differ significantly between men and women). Even larger studies are needed to rule out smaller effect sizes. …
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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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