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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. ...
In:
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 1 % 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
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The energy crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine exposed the heightened vulnerability of low-income households to rising heating costs, particularly those in energy inefficient buildings. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this study examines the distributional impact of heating costs across income deciles and evaluates the effectiveness of policy interventions. We find ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2025,
(DIW Discussion Papers No. 2119)
| Sophie M. Behr, Merve Kucuk, Maximilian Longmuir, Karsten Neuhoff
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Die Armutsforschung arbeitet mit verschiedenen Messkonzepten und Datenquellen. Jonas Beste beleuchtet die am häufigsten verwendeten Ansätze auf Grundlage des Panels 'Arbeitsmarkt und soziale Sicherung' im Vergleich zu anderen Paneldaten. Er benennt Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede bei der Messung von Armut und beschreibt die verschiedenen Erscheinungsformen von Armut. Damit eröffnet er Einblick ...
2017,
| Jonas Beste
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Commuting is a fundamental aspect of employees’ daily routines and continues to evolve with technological advancements. Yet the effects of commuting on subjective well-being remain insufficiently investigated in the context of expanding digital connectivity. This paper examines the causal effects of changes in commuting distance on subjective well-being in an era of widespread mobile internet availability. ...
München:
CESifo,
2025,
(CESifo Working Paper No. 11784)
| Katharina Bettig, Valentin Lindlacher
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DIW focus / 2019
Soziale Stratifikation entsteht durch Ungleichverteilung von gesellschaftlich relevanten Ressourcen wie Geld, Bildungszertifikate oder soziale Kontakte. EmotionssoziologInnen fügen dem eine weitere Dimension hinzu, indem sie annehmen, dass bestimmte Gefühle, positiv oder negativ, Angst oder Freude, in bestimmten sozialen Statusgruppen öfter (seltener) erlebt werden. Dieser Beitrag schließt an diese ...
2019| Coline Kuche
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This study evaluates the impact of Germany’s 2007 parental leave reform (Elterngeld), which introduced two months of non-transferable leave for fathers. Using a sharp regression discontinuity design (RDD) with longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the analysis compares families with children born just before and after the policy’s implementation. The reform helped mothers return ...
2025,
| Christina Lin
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How does the arrival of a new immigrant group affect earlier generations of immigrants? Do intergroup relations and self-identification among earlier immigrants change? Previous research on ethnic boundaries is usually restricted to a twogroup paradigm and primarily focuses on the majority group's perspective. In contrast, this study analyzes how the arrival of refugees in Germany influenced previous ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2025,
(SOEPpapers 1225)
| Renate Gabriele Lorenz