Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 157
Cover Image
Does broadband internet affect fertility?
Billari, Francesco C.; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2017
The spread of high-speed Internet epitomizes the digital revolution, affecting several aspects of our life. Using … German panel data, we test whether the availability of broadband Internet influences fertility choices in a low …. (2014) to obtain causal estimates of the impact of broadband on fertility. We find positive effects of highspeed Internet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011717719
Cover Image
The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2017
This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598931
Cover Image
Does culture trump money? : Erwerbsverhalten und Kitanutzung von Müttern mit und ohne Migrationshintergrund in Deutschland
Boll, Christina; Lagemann, Andreas - 2018
Diese Studie untersucht das Erwerbs- und Kitanutzungsverhalten von Müttern mit und ohne Migrationshintergrund in Deutschland. Wir nutzen die Wellen 2007-2015 des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) mit den Migrantenstichproben M1 und M2, um signifikante Assoziationen zwischen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011961923
Cover Image
Does culture trump money? : employment and childcare use of migrant and non-migrant mothers of pre-school children in Germany
Boll, Christina; Lagemann, Andreas - 2018
This study investigates the employment and childcare use behaviour of migrant and non-migrant mothers in Germany. We use the waves 2007-2015 of the German Socio-Economic Panel study (SOEP), including the migrant samples M1 and M2, to identify significant associations between migration background...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011961929
Cover Image
Broadband internet, digital temptations, and sleep
Billari, Francesco C.; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2017
disrupts our sleep with detrimental effects on our health and cognitive performance. High-speed Internet promotes the use of … electronic devices, video games and Internet addiction (e.g., online games and cyberloafing). Exposure to artificial light from … relationship between technology use near bedtime and sleep. This paper studies the causal effects of access to high-speed Internet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735882
Cover Image
Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825071
Cover Image
Task-biased changes of employment and remuneration : the case of occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008936432
Cover Image
Regional measures of human capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian; Erber, Georg; Glocker, Daniela - 2008
The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729665
Cover Image
Risk aversion and the teaching profession : an analysis including different forms of risk aversion, different control groups, selection and socialization effects
Ayaita, Adam; Stürmer, Kathleen - 2019
Risk aversion might affect current and potential teachers' reaction to reforms, in particular payment reforms. However, evidence on teachers' risk aversion in comparison to other occupations is limited. The present study is based on twelve waves of a representative German data set (N = 18,381)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012117656
Cover Image
Artificial intelligence and workers' well-being
Giuntella, Osea; König, Johannes; Stella, Luca - 2023
This study explores the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and workers’ well-being and mental health using longitudinal survey data from Germany (2000-2020). We construct a measure of individual exposure to AI technology based on the occupation in which workers in our sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014382392