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Gender identity and wives' labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016
Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019
We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994656
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Gender identity and womens' supply of labor and non-market work: Panel data evidence for Germany
Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2015
This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439789
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You Can't Be Happier Than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600904
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Happiness, habits and high rank: Comparisons in economic and social life
Clark, Andrew E. - 2012
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286974
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Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life
Clark, Andrew E. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784010
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You Can't Be Happier Than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008474603
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How causal is separation? Lessons learnt from endogenous switching regression models for single mothers' economic strain in Germany
Birkeneder, Antonia; Boll, Christina - 2021
-2018, we disentangle the roles of causation and selection for separated mothers' individual earnings as a measure of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643587
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Shared parenting and parents' income evolution after separation: New explorative insights from Germany
Boll, Christina; Schüller, Simone - 2021
true for mothers in the medium-term, but their earnings barely improve during that time. Mothers stay highly involved in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012590979
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Conversion of non-respondents in an ongoing panel survey: The case of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)
Schräpler, Jörg-Peter; Schupp, Jürgen; Wagner, Gert G. - 2013
The results of a resurvey of non-respondents to the SOEP study carried out in 2006 show that this special effort of reinterviewing was relatively ineffective in two respects. First, the rate of successful conversions of passive to active respondents was low (less than 20 percent). Second, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332148
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Who buffers income losses after job displacement? The role of alternative income sources, the family, and the state
Fackler, Daniel; Hank, Eva - 2016
sources, reactions within the household context, and redistribution by the state attenuate earnings losses after job … displacement. Applying propensity score matching and fixed effects estimations, we find high individual earnings losses after job … displacement and only limited convergence. Income from self-employment slightly reduces the earnings gap and severance payments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541181