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Testing the ‘Residential Rootedness' - Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK

Reuschke, Darja - 2012

Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move or migrate than employees. Using longitudinal data from … in employment status we found little evidence that the self-employed in Germany and the UK are more rooted in place than …

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So Far So Good : Age, Happiness, and Relative Income

Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2012

In a simple 2-period model of relative income under uncertainty, higher comparison income for the younger cohort can signal higher or lower expected lifetime relative income, and hence either increase or decrease well-being. With data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British...

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Neighborhood Effects and Individual Unemployment

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011

Using a unique dataset for Germany that links individual longitudinal data from the SOEP to regional data from the …

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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...

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Re-Engaging with Survey Non-Respondents : The BHPS, SOEP and HILDA Survey Experience

Wooden, Mark - 2011

Previous research into the correlates and determinants of non-response in longitudinal surveys has focused exclusively on why it is that respondents at one survey wave choose not to participate at future waves. This is very understandable if non-response is always an absorbing state, but in many...

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Long-Distance Moves and Labour Market Outcomes of Dual-Earner Couples in the UK and Germany

Lersch, Philipp M. - 2012

and account for the nonindependence of both careers. Second, I compare evidence from the United Kingdom (UK) and Germany …-earner couples are temporarily adversely affected in their careers by long-distance moves in the UK and West Germany after … controlling for various characteristics of both partners. Women in East Germany are not affected by long-distance moves. Moves do …

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Time is Money – The Influence of Parenthood Timing on Wages

Kind, Michael - 2012

This paper studies the effect of parenthood timing on future wages. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we employ an instrumental variable approach to identify the causal effect of delaying parenthood on wages of mothers and fathers. Consistent with previous studies, we...

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Life Satisfaction, Household Income and Personality Theory

Proto, Eugenio - 2012

We show that personality traits mediate the effect of income on Life Satisfaction. The effect is strong in the case of Neuroticism, which measures the sensitivity to threat and punishment, in both the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socioeconomic Panel. Neuroticism increases the...

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Early Child Care and Child Development : For Whom it Works and Why

Felfe, Christina - 2013

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care...

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The Impact of the German Child Benefit on Child Well-Being

Raschke, Christian - 2013

The German Child Benefit ("Kindergeld") is paid to legal guardians of children as a cash benefit. This study employs exogenous variations in the amount of child benefit received by households to investigate the extent to which these various changes have translated into an improvement in the...

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