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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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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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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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The importance of mothers-in-law's employment for their daughter-in-law's labour market outcomes in West Germany: Results and mechanisms
Schmitz, Sophia; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2021
Social norms have been put forward as prominent explanations for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This paper studies the intergenerational formation of these norms, examining how they affect subsequent female labour supply decisions, taking into account not only the early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501018
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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 o 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/10003951697
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Superstars in politics : the role of the media in the rise and success of Junichiro Koizumi
Yamamura, Eiji; Sabatini, Fabio - 2014 - Preprint
This paper explores the role of mass media in people's perceptions of charismatic leaders, focusing on the case of Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006. Using survey data collected immediately after Koizumi's 2005 landslide electoral victory, this study empirically...
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The importance of mothers-in-law's employment for their daughter-in-law's labour market outcomes in West Germany : results and mechanisms
Schmitz, Sophia; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2021
Social norms have been put forward as prominent explanations for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This paper studies the intergenerational formation of these norms, examining how they affect subsequent female labour supply decisions, taking into account not only the early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497397