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Income comparisons, income formation, and subjective well-being: New evidence on envy versus signaling
Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2013
Drawing on the distinction between envy and signaling effects in income comparison, this paper uses 307,465 observations for subjective well-being and its covariates from Germany, 1990-2009, to study whether the nature of income comparison has changed in the process of economic development, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313028
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Income Comparisons, Income Formation, and Subjective Well-Being: New Evidence on Envy versus Signaling
Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
Drawing on the distinction between envy and signaling effects in income comparison, this paper uses 307,465 observations for subjective well-being and its covariates from Germany, 1990-2009, to study whether the nature of income comparison has changed in the process of economic development, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128991
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Distributional and behavioral effects of the gender wage gap
Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2015
The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage … (labor supply) of the wage gap? We demonstrate how the gender gap in gross hourly wages shows up in the distribution of …-benefit system and other sources of household income. We present a methodological framework for deriving the gender wage gap in terms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516287
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Distributional and Behavioral Effects of the Gender Wage Gap
Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015
The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage … (labor supply) of the wage gap? We demonstrate how the gender gap in gross hourly wages shows up in the distribution of …-benefit system and other sources of household income. We present a methodological framework for deriving the gender wage gap in terms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277343
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20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity
Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - 2009
We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600872
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20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity
Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527284
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The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP): Scope, Evolution and Enhancements
Wagner, Gert G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2007
After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600647
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The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP): Scope, Evolution and Enhancements
Wagner, Gert G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Schupp, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017428
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Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions: Results of a Fixed Effects Model
Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2011
The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German … Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2008. It focuses in particular on gender segregation in the labor … inequality on earnings levels and gender wage differentials in management positions. Our paper is, to our knowledge, the first in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600999
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Does money change who you are? Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of wage increases on personality
Ayaita, Adam - 2022
Using the 2015 introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany as a quasi-experiment, I investigate the effects of wage increases on personality. The degree to which each worker's wage is intended to be affected by the reform is used as an instrument for the relative increase in the worker's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013347613