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Robust estimation of wage dispersion with censored data: An application to occupational earnings risk and risk attitudes
Pollmann, Daniel; Dohmen, Thomas; Palm, Franz - 2013
We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317551
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Occupational choice and self-employment: Are they related?
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael - 2013
Often, a person will become an entrepreneur only after a period of dependent employment, suggesting that occupational choices precede entrepreneurial choices. We investigate the relationship between occupational choice and self-employment. The findings suggest that the occupational choice of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290953
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Stepping forward: Personality traits, choice of profession, and the decision to become self-employed
Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina - 2013
We argue that entrepreneurial choice proceeds in at least in two steps, with vocational choice nearly always preceding choice of employment status, whether that be self-employment or dependent employment. Since the two decisions are interrelated, analysis of entrepreneurial choice as a single...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291577
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The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Germany
Cornelißen, Thomas; Pfeifer, Christian - 2007
We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical … Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized ordered probit models to estimate the effect of participation in sport … into sport, we find strong evidence that the effect of sport on educational attainment is statistically significant and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600714
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Do Sporty People Have Access to Higher Job Quality?
Cabane, Charlotte - 2010
Very little attention has been paid to the impact of sports participation on the labour market in the European academic … literature while it has received significant recognition in the United States. We consider sports practice as a way to improve or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600950
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Do Sporty People Have Access to Higher Job Quality?
Cabane, Charlotte - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
Very little attention has been paid to the impact of sports participation on the labour market in the European academic … literature while it has received significant recognition in the United States. We consider sports practice as a way to improve or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550469
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The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Germany
Cornelißen, Thomas; Pfeifer, Christian - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical … Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized ordered probit models to estimate the effect of participation in sport … into sport, we find strong evidence that the effect of sport on educational attainment is statistically significant and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017445
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Can raising instructional time crowd out student pro-social behaviour? Evidence from Germany
Krekel, Christian - 2017
educational reform in Germany that has raised weekly instructional time for high school students by 12.5% as a quasi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641753
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Lifecycle patterns in the socioeconomic gradient of risk preferences
Schurer, Stefanie - 2015
Who is most likely to change their risk preferences over the lifecourse? Using German nationally representative survey data and methods to separate age from cohort effects, we estimate the lifecycle patterns in the socioeconomic gradient of self-reported risk preferences. Tolerance to risk drops...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010504529
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Emotions and risk attitudes
Meier, Armando N. - 2021
Previous work has shown that preferences are not always stable across time, but surprisingly little is known about the reasons for this instability. I examine whether variation in people's emotions over time predicts changes in risk attitudes. Using a large panel data set, I identify happiness,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012590976