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Benford's Law as an Instrument for Fraud Detection in Surveys Using the Data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)
Schräpler, Jörg-Peter - 2010
This paper focuses on fraud detection in surveys using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data as an example for testing newly methods proposed here. A statistical theorem referred to as Benford's Law states that in many sets of numerical data, the significant digits are not uniformly distributed, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197387
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Women between Part-Time and Full-Time Work : The Influence of Changing Hours of Work on Happiness and Life-Satisfaction
Gash, Vanessa; Mertens, Antje; Romeu Gordo, Laura - 2010
in two countries (the UK and Germany using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey). We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197901
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The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) in the Nineties : An Example of Incremental Innovations in an Ongoing Longitudinal Study
Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
The main aim of the present paper is to historically reappraise the development of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) in the 1990s after the first six waves had been collected. This development was closely connected to the opening of the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe and the fall of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199251
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Polarization of Economic Well-Being, Distributional Conflicts, and Perceptions of Inequality in Germany (Wohlstandspolarisierung, Verteilungskonflikte Und Ungleichheitswahrnehmunge...
Faik, Jürgen; Becker, Jens - 2010
resources and the perception of social inequality in Germany will be picked out as a central theme. By means of empirical … by the wellbeing indicator income – has increased in the Federal Republic of Germany during the recent past. This is … includes some dangers for the democracy and the social stability in Germany although in an EU-27 perspective – at least in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199252
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Subjective and Objective Living Conditions of Unemployed Persons (Subjektive Und Objektive Lebenslagen Von Arbeitslosen)
Faik, Jürgen; Becker, Jens - 2010
The discussion paper picks out the objective and the subjective well-being of the unemployed in Germany compared to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199253
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Determinants and Consequences of Health Behaviour : New Evidence from German Micro Data
Schneider, Brit S.; Schneider, Udo - 2011
The economic costs of chronic health conditions and severe illnesses like diabetes, coronary heart disease or cancer are immense. Several clinical trials give information about the impor-tance of individual behaviour for the prevalence of these illnesses. Changes in health relevant behaviour may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199660
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Personality and Career - She’s Got What it Takes
Fietze, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - 2010
The female share in management positions is quite low in Germany. The higher the hierarchical level, the fewer women … boards of the top 200 private companies in Germany, only 2.5 percent of members are female. Many studies have focused on the … other white-collar employees in Germany’s private sector. While bivariate results based on data from the German Socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199805
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The Effects of Expanding the Generosity of the Statutory Sickness Insurance System
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Karlsson, Martin - 2009
In 1999, in Germany, the statutory sick pay level was increased from 80 to 100 percent of foregone earnings for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199809
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The Willingness to Pay for Job Amenities : Evidence from Mothers' Return to Work
Felfe, Andrea Christina - 2009
This study is the first to estimate mothers’ marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for job amenities directly. Its identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can decide whether and when to return to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199813
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A Natural Experiment on Sick Pay Cuts, Sickness Absence, and Labor Costs
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Karlsson, Martin - 2009
This study estimates the reform effects of a reduction in statutory sick pay levels on various outcome dimensions. A federal law reduced the legal obligation of German employers to provide 100 percent continued wages for up to six weeks per sickness episode to 80 percent. This measure increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199815