Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Is seeking bad mood cognitively demanding? Contra-hedonic orientation and working-memory capacity in everyday life

Hedonism, or wanting to feel good, is central to human motivation. At times, however, people also seek to maintain or enhance negative affect or to dampen positive affect, and this can be instrumental for the later attainment of their goals. Here, we investigate the assumption that such contra-hedonic orientation is cognitively more demanding than prohedonic orientation, above and beyond the effects ...

Three Essays on Job Loss Fears and Offshoring (Thesis)

Die Lebens- und Erwerbsverläufe von Frauen im mittleren Lebensalter. Wandel und rentenpolitische Implikation. (Projekt gefördert vom Forschungsnetzwerk Alterssicherung der Deutschen Rentenversicherung Bund)

Die Studie untersucht die Lebens- und Erwerbsverläufe von Frauen der geburtenstarken Jahrgänge, der sogenannten Babyboomerinnen. Diese Generation steht paradigmatisch für die Entwicklungen einer alternden Gesellschaft und den damit einhergehenden sozialen und politischen Wandlungsprozessen. In der Gegenüberstellung zur vorangegangen Generation weisen die heute 45- bis 50-jährigen Frauen eine stärkere ...

Pakt mit den Reichen

Die Bundesregierungen machen seit Jahren Politik für Wohlhabende. Ergebnis ist eine verfestigte Ungleichheit.

Inequality and mobility of household incomes in Europe: evidence from the ECHP

In this article we want to shed light on two aspects of income mobility: relative total income mobility using the estimator by Fields and Ok (1999) and equalization of long-run incomes measured by the index of Fields (2009). The cross country comparison shows a negative relationship between total relative mobility and long-run income equalization, this result is contrary to the intuition given by Shorrocks ...

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The stature of the self-employed and its relation with earnings and satisfaction

Taller individuals have on average a higher socio-economic status than shorter individuals. In countries where entrepreneurs have high social status, we may therefore expect that entrepreneurs are taller than wage workers. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (2002–2012), we find that a 1 cm increase in an individual's height raises the probability of being self-employed (the most common ...

It's All About Gains: Risk Preferences in Problem Gambling

Problem gambling is a serious socioeconomic problem involving high individual and social costs. In this article, we study risk preferences of problem gamblers including their risk attitudes in the gain and loss domains, their weighting of probabilities, and their degree of loss aversion. Our findings indicate that problem gamblers are systematically more risk taking and less sensitive toward changes ...

Die Vermessung des Glücks

Der Glücksatlas der Post zeigt, dass ein Zusammenhang zwischen Toleranz und persönlichem Glück besteht. Außerdem: die Berliner werden immer unglücklicher wegen hoher Mieten und Einsamkeit.

Increasing inequalities in Germany: Older people´s employment lives and income conditions since the mid-1980s