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In:
Sozialwissenschaften und Berufspraxis
21 (1998), 2, 103-115
| Sven Schneider
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In:
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie
24 (1999), 1, 47-62
| Sven Schneider
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In:
Sozialer Fortschritt
48 (1999), 7, 180-184
| Sven Schneider
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2001,
| Sven Schneider
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In:
Sozialer Fortschritt
52 (2003), 3, 64-73
| Sven Schneider
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Despite the relatively extensive research on pay levels and the consequences of income disparities, little is known about which reference groups people choose for comparative evaluation of personal income and why different selection patterns emerge. The aim of this paper is to dig deeper for answers to the following three questions: (1) What are the most important reference groups for income comparisons? ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2010,
(SOEPpapers 333)
| Simone Schneider
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In:
Standpunkt Deutschland
Standpunkt Deutschland
| Stefan Schneider
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Income comparisons are among the key mechanisms used to explain satisfaction and happiness, among other outcomes. Yet progress on the questions of who people use as social referents and whether differential selection patterns exist can only be made based on valid and reliable measures of pay referents included in large-scale population surveys. The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) is pursuing ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2010,
(DIW Berlin Data Documentation 48)
| Simone Schneider, Jürgen Schupp
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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 dispositions. To test the empirical validity of this proposition, Gibbons and Buunk (1999) created an instrument ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2011,
(SOEPpapers 360)
| Simone Schneider, Jürgen Schupp
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Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency to compare one’s own opinions and abilities with those of other people, raising the question of whether social comparisons are psychological dispositions. To test the empirical validity of this proposition, Gibbons and Buunk (1999) created an instrument, the Iowa–Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM), that measures ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
115 (2014), 2, 767-789
| Simone Schneider, Jürgen Schupp