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Offshoring, wages and job security of temporary workers
Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis - 2012
We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular attention to the question of whether workers on temporary contracts are affected differently than workers on permanent contracts. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681409
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Gregariousness, interactive jobs and wages
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Schulz, Nico Johannes - 2011
, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008936437
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Happy house : spousal weight and individual well-being
Clark, Andrew E.; Etilé, Fabrice - 2010
We use life satisfaction and Body Mass Index (BMI) information from three waves of the SOEP to test for social interactions in BMI between spouses. Social interactions require that the cross-partial effect of partner's weight and own weight in the utility function be positive. Using life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826901
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The social comparison scale : testing the validity, reliability, and applicability of the Iowa-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM) on the German population
Schneider, Simone; Schupp, Jürgen - 2011
Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people's opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008842304
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Surfing alone? : the Internet and social capital ; evidence from an unforeseeable technological mistake
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011
second exploits a quasi-experiment in East Germany created by a mistaken technology choice of the state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269266
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Neighborhood effects and individual unemployment
Bauer, Thomas K.; Fertig, Michael; Vorell, Matthias - 2011
Using a unique dataset for Germany that links individual longitudinal data from the SOEP to regional data from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009389159
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The economic impact of social ties : evidence from German reunification
Burchardi, Konrad B.; Hassan, Tarek A. - 2011
to East Germany in 1989 experience a persistent rise in their personal incomes after the fall of the Berlin Wall … within a given West German region invest in East Germany. As a result, West German regions which (for idiosyncratic reasons … capita in the early 1990s. A one standard deviation rise in the share of households with social ties to East Germany in 1989 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357263
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Spite and cognitive skills in preschoolers
Bügelmayer, Elisabeth; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2011
Although spiteful preferences play a crucial role in the development of human large-scale cooperation, there is little evidence on spiteful behavior and its determinants in children. We investigate the relationship between children's cognitive skills and spiteful behavior in a sample of 214...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357265
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009775642
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Labour supply and commuting
Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva; Ommeren, Jos van - 2009
issues empirically using the socio-economic panel data for Germany between 1997 and 2007. Endogeneity of commuting distance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635917