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Auswirkungen des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns auf Löhne und Arbeitszeiten (MLK-027)

Performance Pay and Happiness: Work vs. Home?

Using German survey data, we show conflicting influences of performance pay on overall life satisfaction. The overall influence reflects a strong positive influence through domains of life satisfaction associated with the job (job satisfaction, individual earnings satisfaction and household earning satisfaction) and a strong negative influence through domains away from the job (health satisfaction, ...

Variable pay and work hours: does performance pay reduce the gender time gap?

Using German survey data, we show in worker fixed effects estimates that performance pay is associated with a substantially lower gender hours gap. While performance pay increases the work hours of both men and women, the increase is much larger for women than for men. We argue that our finding likely reflects differences in household production and specialization by gender. Thus, we show that performance ...

Detach to Thrive: Psychological Detachment from Work and Employee Well-Being

Psychological detachment from work implies mentally disconnecting from work during off-job time. Using representative longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we identify psychological detachment from work as a key driver of employee well-being. This finding holds for a broad set of well-being indicators, including emotional responses, job satisfaction, life domain satisfactions, and ...

Gesundheit und Inanspruchnahme der Gesundheitsversorgung in Deutschland

Health and Utilisation of Healthcare services in Germany

Mental health of Ukrainian refugees in Germany: results of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP survey

AIMS: Although Ukrainian refugees currently represent the largest group of asylum seekers living in Germany, little is known about their mental health. This contribution aims to identify the prevalence of depressive symptoms and anxiety disorders among Ukrainian refugees as well as to examine the determinants of mental health outcomes. METHODS: The analyses are based on representative data from the ...

Unintended social effects of newborn genomic data use and storage in the age of sociogenomics and genetic surveillance

Genetic data are increasingly important in the field of medicine for diagnostics as well as preventative health care. With the emergence of rapid and cost-effective DNA-sequencing technology, proposals and pilot studies of genomic newborn screening programs have been put in motion in several countries, with the hope of broad medical benefits for future generations. These plans are raising significant ...

Personalizing probabilistic survey scales

Central bank surveys frequently elicit households’ probabilistic beliefs about future inflation by employing response scales centered around zero inflation. Analyzing data from the high-inflation period of 2022/2023, we demonstrate how this practice leads to distortions in households’ responses, causing inconsistencies and resulting in biased estimates of both mean inflation expectations and uncertainty. ...

„Ich bin und bleibe DDR-Bürger“. Die Entwicklung der identifikativen Akkulturation im Lebensverlauf von 1972 und 1973 in Sachsen Geborenen

Aus der Lebensverlaufsperspektive wird die Entwicklung der identifikativen Akkulturation von 1972/73 in Sachsen geborenen Personen untersucht. Mittels einzigartiger Längsschnittdaten der Sächsischen Längsschnittstudie werden Struktur und Dynamik der kollektiven Identifikationen mit der ehemaligen DDR und dem vereinten Deutschland über einen Zeitraum von mehr als 30 Jahren beschrieben. Die multiple ...