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Do entrepreneurs really earn less? : conference paper
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2014
We compare, based on German data, the income of self-employed individuals with and without employees with the income of … than their salaried counterparts, while with the exception of solo-entrepreneurs without vocational degree - the income of … to their income before the start-up. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010485982
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Direct evidence on income comparisons and subjective well-being : conference paper
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2013 - This version: February 18, 2013
Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on … whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their … relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct information on income comparison intensity and perceived relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342250
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Validating structural labor supply models : conference paper
Löffler, Max; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2013 - Work in progress, This version: February 27, 2013
Although discrete hours choice models have become the workhorse in labor supply analyses. Yet, they are often criticized for being a black box due to their numerous underlying modeling assumptions, with respect to, e.g., the functional form, unobserved error components or several exogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340999
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Examining the structure of spatial health effects using hierarchical Bayes models : conference paper
Eibich, Peter; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2013 - This version: November 11, 2012
This paper makes use of Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects. We focus on Germany, combining rich individual-level household panel data with administrative county level information to estimate spatial county-level health dependencies. As dependent variable, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341163
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Proceedings of the 11th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP 2014)
Giesselmann, Marco (ed.); Schröder, Carsten (ed.);  … - International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491477
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Estimating the impact of alternative multiple imputation methods on longitudinal wealth data : conference paper
Westermeier, Christian; Grabka, Markus M. - 2014
Statistical Analysis in surveys is often facing missing data. As case-wise deletion and single imputation prove to have undesired properties, multiple imputation remains as a measure to handle this problem. In a longitudinal study, where for some missing values past or future data points might...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483239
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Umwelt und empirische Sozial- und Wirtschaftsforschung : Beiträge und Diskussionsberichte zu einer Tagung der Projektgruppe "Das Sozio-oekonomische Panel" am Deutschen Institut für...
Schupp, Jürgen (ed.); Wagner, Gert G. (ed.) - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung / … - 1998
Umweltforschung und Umweltschutz sind keineswegs nur Gegenstand der Naturwissenschaften, sondern empirische Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften und haben in diesem Problemfeld auch ihren wichtigen Platz. Die entsprechende empirische Forschung dient vor allem zwei Zwecken: zum einen der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401957
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Sickness absence, works councils, and personnel problems : evidence from German individual and linked employer-employee data ; conference paper
Arnold, Daniel; Brändle, Tobias; Goerke, Laszlo - 2013 - This version: August 14, 2013
Using both household and linked-employer-employee data we study the effects of works councils on individual sickness absence rates and a subjective measure of personnel problems due to absenteeism in Germany. We find that the existence of a works council is positively correlated with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339945
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Proceedings of the 9th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP 2010) : [took place from June 30 to July 1, 2010 at the Social Science Research Centre (WZB)]
Leuze, Kathrin (contributor) - International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference <9, … - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314199
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Proceedings of the 10th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP 2012) : [took place in Berlin, June 28-29, 2012]
Schupp, Jürgen (contributor) - International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference <10, … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010188957