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The Protestant Fiscal Ethic : Religious Confession and Euro Skepticism in Germany
Chadi, Adrian - 2015
During the European sovereign debt crisis, most countries that ran into fiscal trouble had Catholic majorities, whereas countries with Protestant majorities were able to avoid fiscal problems. Survey data show that, within Germany, views on the euro differ between Protestants and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022012
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Perceived Job Insecurity and Well-Being Revisited : Towards Conceptual Clarity
Geishecker, Ingo - 2010
This paper analyzes the impact of job insecurity perceptions on individual well-being. In contrast to previous studies, we explicitly take into account perceptions about both the likelihood and the potential costs of job loss and demonstrate that most contributions to the literature suffer from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196731
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Risky Earnings, Taxation and Entrepreneurial Choice : A Microeconometric Model for Germany
Fossen, Frank M. - 2008
Which role do individual income prospects play in the decision to be an entrepreneur rather than an employee? In a model of occupational choice, higher expected after-tax earnings attract people to self-employment, while more risky net earnings deter risk-averse individuals. In this paper I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220108
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Precautionary Saving and Income Uncertainty in Germany - New Evidence from Microdata
Bartzsch, Nikolaus - 2008
could be due to precautionary saving. In this paper, the importance of precautionary saving against income uncertainty is … alternative measures of income uncertainty in a cross-section of households. In addition to the usual controls, risk aversion is … about 20%. Compared with net financial wealth, housing wealth is not used as a buffer stock against income uncertainty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220111
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Perceived Job Insecurity, Unemployment Risk and International Trade – A Micro-Level Analysis of Employees in German Service Industries
Lurweg, Maren - 2010
their skill level. Moreover, growth in real net exports is positively correlated with perceived job insecurity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143025
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan - 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/10013128093
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Lebenszufriedenheit und Einkommensreichtum : Eine empirische Analyse mit dem SOEP (Life Satisfaction and Income Richness: An Empirical Analysis Based on Data of the German Socioeco...
Hajek, André - 2011
In this study the relation between satisfaction with life and affluent income is analyzed by using cross-sectional and longitudinal data. The data used in this publication were made available by the German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128105
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Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions : Results of a Fixed Effects Model
Busch, Anne - 2011
The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2008. It focuses in particular on gender segregation in the labor market, that is, on the unequal distribution of women and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130942
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Remittances and Gender : Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence
Holst, Elke - 2011
In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained theoretically by way of intra-family contracts. We develop a basic formal concept that includes aspects of the transnational network and derive hypotheses from it. For our empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130944
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Beyond GDP and Back : What is the Value-Added by Additional Components of Welfare Measurement?
de New (née Kassenboehmer), Sonja C. - 2011
Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130949