Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, the present paper studies whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions…
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se for a couple's risk of separation. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life…
In this paper, we analyze the role of personality traits for female labor force participation. While research on the role of cognitive skills for individual labor market success has a long tradition in…
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Observational studies have become a major research methodology in scienti c disciplines where experiments are hard to perform. These most notably include the health sciences, social sciences and…
We present evidence for a highly significant interaction between state dependence in individual unemployment risk and the business cycle. The disadvantage from having been unemployed in the previous period is…
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2010
Ausdauer und Leistungsintensität im Handlungsablauf, Motivation, sprachliche, logische und motorische Fähigkeiten, Gedächtnisleistungen ebenso wie die Fähigkeit zur Verarbei-tung von Informationen sind im Schul-…
This paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades. During this period, graduates from the period of educational expansion entered the labour…