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Entry into Entrepreneurship, Endogenous Adaption of Risk Attitudes and Entrepreneurial Survival
Brachert, Matthias - 2014
Empirical studies use the assumption of stability in individual risk attitudes when searching for a relationship between attitude to risk and the decision to become and survive as an entrepreneur. We show that risk attitudes do not remain stable but face endogenous adaption when starting a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043584
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Does Unemployment Hurt Less if There is More of it Around? A Panel Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland
Oesch, Daniel - 2011
This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121282
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The Evolution of Income Inequality in Germany and Switzerland Since the Turn of the Millennium
Grabka, Markus - 2012
This paper presents and compares trends in income inequality in Switzerland and Germany from 2000 to 2009 using … harmonized data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Swiss Household Panel (SHP). Whereas in Germany inequality has … increased substantially during this period, in Switzerland inequality in market incomes has increased only marginally and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101854
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The Working Class Left Behind? The Class Gap in Life Satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland Over the Last Decades
Lipps, Oliver - 2018
case of Switzerland. We use panel data for Germany (1984-2014) and Switzerland (2000-2015) and check the robustness of our …. The class gap is twice as large in Germany than in Switzerland. In Germany, the class gap in life satisfaction narrowed …The 1990s and 2000s were a gloomy period for Germany's working class, hit by mass unemployment, welfare retrenchment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930731
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The Feminization of Occupations and Change in Wages : A Panel Analysis of Britain, Germany and Switzerland
Murphy, Emily - 2015
Switzerland and three percent in Germany. The impact of occupational feminization on wages is not linear, but sets apart … remain in, or move into, feminizing occupations? We analzye this question over the 1990s and 2000s in Britain, Germany and … Switzerland, using longitudinal panel data to estimate individual fixed effects for men and women. Moving from an entirely male to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028229
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Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers
Görg, Holger - 2012
We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular attention to the question of whether workers on temporary contracts are affected differently than workers on permanent contracts. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097334
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Higher and Higher? Performance Pay and Wage Inequality in Germany
Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2012
Performance pay is of growing importance to the wage structure as it applies to a rising share of employees. At the same time wage dispersion is growing continuously. This leads to the question of how the growing use of performance pay schemes is related to the increase in wage inequality?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100723
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The Benefits and Problems of Linking Micro and Macro Models - Evidence from a Flat Tax Analysis
Peichl, Andreas - 2009
tax reform proposals for Germany. Taking feedback effects into account has important implications for the evaluation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159776
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On the Stability of Preferences : Repercussions of Entrepreneurship on Risk Attitudes
Brachert, Matthias - 2014
The majority of empirical studies make use of the assumption of stable preferences in searching for a relationship between risk attitude and the decision to become and stay an entrepreneur. Yet empirical evidence on this relationship is limited. In this paper, we show that entry into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051356
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Labor Market Effects of International Outsourcing : How Measurement Matters
Horgos, Daniel - 2008
outsourcing indices and applying a panel data estimation of the effects on the within industries' wage gap in Germany, theory and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220095