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Using a DNA-based polygenic index, we explored geographical and historical differences in polygenic associations with educational attainment in East and West Germany around the time of reunification. This index was derived from a prior genome-wide association study on educational attainment in democratic countries. In 1,930 individuals aged 25 to 85 years from the SOEP-G[ene] cohort, the magnitude ...
In:
Psychological Science
36 (2025), 7, 559-573
| Deniz Fraemke, Yayouk E. Willems, Aysu Okbay, Ulman Lindenberger, Sabine Zinn, Gert Wagner, David Richter, Kathryn P. Harden, Elliot M. Tucker-Drob, Ralph Hertwig, Philipp Koellinger, Laurel Raffington
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FAIRness of research data largely depends on the availability of rich and standardized metadata. While such metadata is commonly available at the study level, fine-grained metadata, especially for tabular scientific data, is often lacking (Wenzig/Han 2024). In a project funded by KonsortSWD-NFDI4Society, three research data centers (SOEP, LIfBi, and DZHW) investigate what is required to convert existing ...
2025,
(KonsortSWD Working paper)
| Knut Wenzig, Andreas Daniel, Dominique Hansen, Tobias Koberg, Mihaela Tudose
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This article explores the nexus between risk tolerance and altruism. Using information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find a statistically and economically significant positive correlation between risk tolerance and proxies for altruism conditional on a long covariate vector.
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Applied Economics Letters
(online first) (2025), 1-5
| Tim Friehe, Christian Pfeifer
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Remote work has become integral to contemporary work life, necessitating a detailed examination of its effects on employees? sense of community and support ? key factors influencing knowledge sharing, team performance, and well-being at work. To this end, this study examines how the adjustments made to working arrangements and workplace communication during and after the COVID-19 pandemic have affected ...
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Behaviour & Information Technology
(2025), 1-14
| Kaisa Pekkala, Reetta Oksa, Atte Oksanen
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OBJECTIVE: Diabetes is associated with lower labour force participation. The proportion of people having diabetes is higher among people with a low socio-economic position. We aimed to describe socio-economic differences in the association between diabetes and labour force participation in Germany. METHODS: Based on repeated cross-sectional data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, the probability ...
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Ger Med Sci
23 (2025),
| Malwina M. Mackowiak, Ralph Brinks, Annika Hoyer, Ute Linnenkamp, Katharina Piedboeuf-Potyka, Markus Neuhäuser, Oliver Kuss, Thaddäus Tönnies
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This paper investigates whether individuals’ relative (status or positional) concerns are associated with their transitions from paid employment or inactivity to self-employment. The conjecture is that stress and anxiety arising from socio-economic comparisons may be motivating factors for individuals to establish their own businesses. We examine this using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) dataset, ...
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Small Business Economics
(online first) (2025),
| Alpaslan Akay, Levent Yilmaz
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Overeducated workers are more productive and have higher wages in comparison to their adequately educated coworkers in the same jobs. However, they have lower wages than their similarly educated peers who are in correctly matched jobs. This study examines the hypotheses that overeducated workers sort into performance pay jobs as an adjustment mechanism and that performance pay enhances their wages. ...
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Education Economics
(online first) (2025), 1-21
| Mehrzad B. Baktash
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Transitioning into young adulthood often brings about significant changes in personality traits. However, the reasons behind these personality changes remain unclear. This study integrates insights from research on personality development and the psychology of social class to study how the construction of one’s social class identity in young adulthood might trigger changes in personality traits (i.e., ...
In:
Social Psychological and Personality Science
(online first) (2025),
| Anatolia Batruch, Manon A. van Scheppingen
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Von Sozialarbeiterinnen und Sozialarbeitern wird eine „armutsbewusste Haltung“ gefordert und ein mögliches „sozialpolitisches Mandat“ wird diskutiert. Unerforscht bleibt bislang, inwiefern Sozialarbeiterinnen und Sozialarbeiter eine staatliche Umverteilung und eine staatliche Armutsbekämpfung befürworten. Als bislang erste Studie vergleicht dieser Beitrag die Einstellungen der Berufsgruppe mit anderen ...
In:
Sozial Extra
49 (2025), 2, 147-153
| Jürgen Bauknecht, Jan A. Velimsky
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Earnings are often top-coded (right-censored) in administrative registers. The censoring threshold in the case of Germany is the limit value for social security contributions, leading to a substantial fraction of censoring: For example, about 12 % of male workers in West Germany are affected, rising to above 30 % for highly educated prime-aged workers. This missing right tail of the earnings distribution ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
(online first) (2025),
| Mattis Beckmannshagen, Johannes König, Isabella Retter, Christian Schluter, Carsten Schröder, Yogam Tchokni