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Unemployment as a social norm in Germany
Clark, Andrew E.; Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2008
regional unemployment rates. While employed men suffer from regional unemployment, unemployed men are significantly less … negatively affected. This is consistent with a social-norm effect of unemployment in Germany. We find no evidence of such an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632884
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What a difference peers can make : the impact of social (work) norms on unemployment duration
Tolciu, Andreia - 2009
individual unemployment duration. The impact is assumed to be enhanced through social work norms shared by peers within the group … unemployment duration. -- regional social interactions ; social work norms ; group influence, regional unemployment ; religious …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009161266
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Unemployment as a Social Norm in Germany
Clark, Andrew; Knabe, Andreas; Raetzel, Steffen - 2008
regional unemployment rates. While employed men suffer from regional unemployment, unemployed men are significantly less … negatively affected. This is consistent with a social-norm effect of unemployment in Germany. We find no evidence of such an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213442
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Neighborhood Effects and Individual Unemployment
Bauer, Thomas K.; Fertig, Michael; Vorell, Matthias - 2011
federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual … neighborhood unemployment on the individual employment probability. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601051
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Neighborhood effects and individual unemployment
Bauer, Thomas K.; Fertig, Michael; Vorell, Matthias - 2011
federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual … neighborhood unemployment on the individual employment probability. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282292
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Unemployment as a social norm revisited : novel evidence from German counties
Kunze, Lars; Suppa, Nicolai - 2016
. Using highly detailed German county level data, we test whether the social norm effect of unemployment is age-dependent. The … wellbeing differential between the unemployed and the employed is found to increase with the local unemployment rate at the … beginning of the working life but to remain steady or even to decrease in older age. Individual unemployment, however, remains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440877
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Decomposition of co-worker wage gains
Boza, István; Ilyés, Virág - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 9 (2020) 1/8, pp. 1-31
We address the presence, magnitude, and composition of wage gains related to former co-workers and discuss the mechanisms that could explain their existence. Using Hungarian linked employer-employee administrative data and proxying actual co-workership with overlapping work histories, we show...
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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2008
Recent theoretical contributions depart from the usual practice of treating individual attitude endowments as a black box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs...
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Parental investment and the intergenerational transmission of economic preferences and attitudes
Zumbuehl, Maria; Dohmen, Thomas; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2013
We study empirically whether there is scope for parents to shape the economic preferences and attitudes of their children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children, as well as rich information about parental efforts in...
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Survey evidence on conditional norm enforcement
Traxler, Christian; Winter, Joachim - 2009
We discuss survey evidence on individuals' willingness to sanction norm violations such as evading taxes, drunk driving, fare dodging, or skiving off work by expressing disapproval or social exclusion. Our data suggest that people condition their sanctioning behavior on their belief about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267003