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Income in jeopardy : how losing employment affects the willingness to take risks
Hetschko, Clemens; Preuß, Malte - 2015
Using German panel data, we assess the causal effect of job loss, and thus of an extensive income shock, on risk attitude. In line with predictions of expected utility reasoning about absolute risk aversion, losing one’s job reduces the willingness to take risks. This effect strengthens in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442282
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Cross-sectional and longitudinal equivalence scales for West Germany based on subjective data on life satisfaction : paper presented at the fifth meeting of the Society for the Stu...
Faik, Jürgen - 2013
German 1984-2010 Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) database for West Germany. It follows the "individual variant" for calculating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128357
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Income inequality developments in the Great Recession
Hellebrandt, Thomas - 2014
. Using data on eight advanced economies (Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Slovakia, Spain, the United Kingdom, and United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345618
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Savings and consumption when children move out
Rottke, Simon; Klos, Alexander - 2013
Based on the Italian Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) and the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP), we show that household consumption drops after a child moves out of a household, while at the same time, per capita consumption increases significantly. Parents approximately upgrade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241620
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Mortgage market maturity and homeownership inequality among young households : a five-country perspective
Bičáková, Alena; Sierminska, Eva - 2008 - This version: February 2008
rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and … relate it to cross-country differences in mortgage market maturity. We find that aside from Italy, homeownership rates and … different degree of development of their respective mortgage markets. In Italy, alternative ways of financing, such as family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631928
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Older or wealthier? : the impact of age adjustments on the wealth inequality ranking of countries
Almås, Ingvild; Mogstady, Magne - 2009
Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this finding relies on cross-section data, we may confuse older with wealthier. We propose a new method to adjust for age effects in cross-sections, which eliminates transitory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635021
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Risk attitudes and wage growth : replication and reconstruction
Budria, Santi; Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2009 - This draft: March 18, 2009
risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635168
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Intra-household time allocation : gender differences in caring for children
García Mainar, Inmaculada; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2009
characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data being drawn from the European Community …Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht auf Basis von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels für Deutschland (SOEP), inwieweit … selbständige Ausländer in Deutschland überdurchschnittlich hohe Einkommen erzielen. Die Untersuchung zeigt, dass ausländische …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635271
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Evolution and determinants of rent burdens in Germany
Backhaus, Teresa; Gebers, Kathrin; Schröder, Carsten - 2015
The affordability of housing has become a major topic of discussion in Germany among both social scientists and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441591
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How a universal music education program affects time use, behavior, and school attitude
Hille, Adrian - 2015
music education programs are becoming increasingly popular among policy makers in Germany and other developed countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441643