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Digital skills: Social disparities and the impact of early mentoring

Kosse, Fabian; Leffler, Tim; Woemmel, Arna - 2025

We investigate social disparities in digital skills, focusing on both actual proficiency levels and confidence in these skills. Drawing on a representative sample from Germany, we first demonstrate that both dimensions strongly predict labor market success. We then use this sample to identify...

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Post-Socialist Culture and Entrepreneurship

Runst, Petrik - 2011

In this paper it is argued that locus of control beliefs and preferences concerning state action negatively affect the formation of new firms in former socialist countries. For this purpose Kirzner's theory of costless entrepreneurship is reviewed and criticized. German reunification, in which...

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Post-Socialist Culture and Entrepreneurship

Runst, Petrik - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseen Technological Mistake

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Wößmann, Ludger - 2011

Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One...

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You Can't Be Happier Than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce

Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2010

initiated by women, and importantly, by women who are unhappier than their husband. Hence, happiness gaps seem to matter to …

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Are Happier People Better Citizens?

Guven, Cahit - 2009

This paper presents evidence on causal influence of happiness on social capital and trust using German Socio-Economic Panel. Exploiting the unexplained cross-sectional variation in individual happiness (residuals) in 1984 to eliminate the endogeneity problem, the paper finds that happier people...

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Are Happier People Better Citizens?

Guven, Cahit - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

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The wider benefits of adult learning: Work-related training and social capital

Ruhose, Jens; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Weilage, Insa - 2018

We propose a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences framework to estimate non-pecuniary returns to adult education. This approach combines kernel matching with entropy balancing to account for selection bias and sorting on gains. Using data from the German SOEP, we evaluate the...

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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseen Technological Mistake

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Wößmann, Ludger - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

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Wo(men) at work? The impact of cohabiting and married partners' earning on women's work hours

Triebe, Doreen - 2013

This study investigates the determinants of women's labor supply in the household context. The main focus is on the … effect of a change in male partner's wages on women's work hours. This is linked to the broader question of whether married … and cohabiting women make different economic decisions and respond differently to changes in their partners' wages. In …

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