Objective: At work, people are confronted with clear behavioral expectations. In line with the Social Investment Principle, the beginning and ending of working life might thus promote changes in personality traits that are relevant at work (e.g., Conscientiousness). Method: Based on the data...

Befristung als Form der Arbeitsmarktflexibilisierung - Arbeitsmarkttheoretische Überlegungen zur befristeten Beschäftigung - Befristete Beschäftigung und der Einfluss institutioneller Rahmenbedingungen - Hypothesen - Daten, Variablen und Methoden - Verbreitungsgrad und Charakteristika...

Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this finding relies on cross-section data, we may confuse older with wealthier. We propose a new method to adjust for age effects in cross-sections, which eliminates transitory...