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Despite poor regional labour market conditions East Germans exhibit a rather limited willing-ness of leaving their home region. Applying an IV ordered probit approach and using the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP), we test a local network explanation of lower spatial mobility. Firstly, we find...
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The computation of cross sectional weights in household panels is challenging because household compositions change … over time. Sampling probabilities of new household entrants are generally not known and assigning them zero weight is not … household panels address cross sectional weights for different groups of respondents (including immigrants and births) and in …
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In household panels, typically all household members are surveyed. Because household composition changes over time, so …-called following rules are implemented to decide whether to continue surveying household members who leave the household (e.g. former … finding household members who moved out years earlier is very difficult. We find that household survey panels implement a wide …
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response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies … whether intra-household adaptation mechanisms differ by gender and by partnership status. The underlying method is a …
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indicate that around separation, intense SP is a superior strategy in terms of equivalized household income. This also holds …
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Housing costs account for a large share of household expenditures, and vary widely among households of different size … and structure. Despite this, they have received little attention in family reporting, so far. This paper aims to fill this … as applied for family reporting. For this purpose, both an objective measure of housing cost burden and the subjectively …
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In this study we investigate the link between the job search channels that workers use to find employment and the probability of occupational mismatch in the new job. Our specific focus is on differences between native and immigrant workers. We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel...
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respondents and nonrespondents, including milieu or lifestyle, dominant household structure, desire for anonymity, frequency of …
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The SOEP Group currently is preparing in addition to increasing the size of the core SOEP, to establish a new Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS). This will be established for the period 2012 to 2017 (with a cumulative number of presumably N=5,000 households). Now, in the year 2012, a new subsample is...
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if non-response is always an absorbing state, but in many longitudinal surveys, and certainly most household panels, this …-respondents. Drawing on data from three national household panels it is found that the re-engagement decision is indeed distinctly …
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