Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

The Justice of Earnings in Dual-Earner Households

The rise in female labor market participation and the growth of “atypical” employment arrangements has, over the last few decades, brought about a steadily decreasing percentage of households in which the man is the sole breadwinner, and a rising percentage of dual-earner households. Against this backdrop, the present paper investigates the impact of household contexts in which the traditional male ...

Gerechtigkeit

Entlohnungsungerechtigkeit in Deutschland? Hohes Ungerechtigkeitsempfinden bei Managergehältern

Seit dem Gerichtsurteil zu den sachlich ungerechtfertigten Prämienzahlungen an das ehemalige Top-Management der Mannesmann AG werden Fragen der Entlohnungsgerechtigkeit in der Öffentlichkeit breit diskutiert. Hintergrund sind stark gestiegene Spitzengehälter von Managern in einer Zeit mäßiger Wirtschaftsentwicklung und hoher Arbeitslosigkeit. Eine Sondererhebung des vom DIW Berlin in Zusammenarbeit ...

Sustainable consumption in capability perspective: Operationalization and empirical illustration

The present research combines the capability approach (CA) with the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to investigate the effects of social norms and personal autonomy on sustainable consumption behavior. The approaches bear some similarities, but differ in that the CA attaches more importance to autonomy and highlights the indirect effects of social influence. In contrast to TPB, the CA suggests indirect ...

Ökologisch nachhaltiger Konsum und ungleiche Teilhabe (21. Kapitel)

Does good advice come cheap? –– On the assessment of risk preferences in the lab and the field

Advice is important for decision making, especially in the financial sector. We investigate how individuals assess risk preferences of others given sociodemographic information or pictures. Both non-professionals and financial professionals participate in this artefactual field experiment. Subjects mainly rely on the other's self-assessment of risk preferences and on gender when forming the belief ...

Stereotypes and Risk Attitudes: Evidence from the Lab and the Field

Recent studies have found correlations between risk attitudes and several sociodemographic characteristics. In this paper, we deploy an artefactual field experiment and study whether subjects - non-professionals and -financial professionals - are aware of these correlations. This is largely confirmed by our results for all subject groups. We show that the subjects attach informational value to sociodemographic ...

Persönlichkeit im Wandel. Wie Lebensereignisse den Menschen verändern

Overeducation and Mismatch in the Labor Market

This paper surveys the economics literature on overeducation. The original motivation to study this topic were reports that the strong increase in the number of college graduates in the early 1970s in the US led to a decrease in the returns to college education. We argue that Duncan and Hoffman’s augmented wage equation – the workhorse model in the overeducation literature – in which wages are regressed ...

What Makes for a Good Start? Consequences of Occupation-Specific Higher Education for Career Mobility: Germany and Great Britain Compared

Previous research on graduate employment points to cross-national similarities regarding the comparative advantage of higher education, but also to quality differences in initial employment positions. This article asks what makes for a good start after higher education and provides an institutional perspective on the specific "production mechanisms" of graduate career mobility in different ...