Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Are political representatives more risk-loving than the electorate? Evidence from German federal and state parliaments

Political representatives frequently make decisions with far-reaching implications for citizens and societies. Most of these decisions are choices in situations in which the probabilities of gains and losses are hard to estimate. Although decision-making is crucial to politics, existing research has hardly ever addressed the political representation of traits that notably influence decision-making. ...

Der Mindestlohn steigert die Produktivität" (Interview mit Jürgen Schupp)

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Managerentlohnung und die Reformbereitschaft der Bevölkerung: Ein Beitrag zur politischen Ökonomie sozialer Präferenzen (Hochschulschriften Bd. 126)

Europäisierung oder Globalisierung von Ungleichheit? Determinanten für Einkommensungleichheit in den Mitgliedsländern der EU 1993-2007

The topic income inequality has recently attracted a lot of attention as a result of increasing inequalities in a number of OECD countries. As reasons for this increase it is often referred the process of globalization. A lot less attention has been given to another process of economic integration – the process of European integration. One exception is the study of the American sociologist Jason Beckfield ...

Believe In A Just Wage? The Effect Of Personality On Labour Market Outcomes

This paper examines the impact of students' non-cognitive skills locus of control and self-esteem on their decision to enroll at college, and on their wages once they enter the labour market. We extend previous research in several ways: a model of belief formation suggests a pathway by which these traits affect economic outcomes and allows to derive testable predictions concerning individuals' ...

On the Misery of Losing Self-employment

German Socio-Economic Panel data is used to show that the decrease in life satisfaction caused by an increase in the probability of losing work is higher when self-employed than when paid employed. Further estimations reveal that becoming unemployed reduces selfemployed workers’ satisfaction considerably more than salaried workers’ satisfaction. These results indicate that losing self-employment is ...

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Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment

Using German panel data, we show that unemployed people are, on average, less satisfied with their life than employed people, but they report a substantial increase in their life satisfaction upon retirement. We interpret this finding using identity theory. Retirement raises the identity utility of the unemployed because it changes the social norms they are supposed to adhere to. The social norm for ...

Looking Back in Anger? Retirement and Unemployment Scarring

Previous studies find that past unemployment reduces life satisfaction even after reemployment for non-monetary reasons (unemployment scarring). It is not clear, however, whether this scarring is only caused by employment-related factors, such as worsened working conditions, or increased future uncertainty as regards income and employment. Using German panel data, we identify non-employment-related ...