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Does working in the public sector make people more risk averse? Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP, 2008–2018), this study examines whether public sector work experience influences individual risk aversion over time. Fixed-effects and supplementary within-person analyses were conducted to test the socialization hypotheses. The results show that while public sector work ...
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Review of Public Personnel Administration
(online first) (2026),
| Ivan P. Lee, Jincheng Wang, Kuang-Ting Tai
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Ostdeutsche gelten als besonders unzufrieden mit der Demokratie, migrationsfeindlich und dem Rechtspopulismus zugeneigt. Oft werden diese Orientierungen durch Sozialisationseffekte des DDR-Systems erklärt. Wir betrachten die Position im politischen System der DDR als wichtigen Differenzierungsfaktor. Konkret untersuchen wir, wie stark sich ehemalige Staatsnahe, Dissidenten & Protestierende und ...
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55 (2026), 2, 117–134
| Steffen Mau, Thomas Lux, Julian Heide
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This study examines the unfolding of early career trajectories of individuals entering the workforce overeducated, focusing on whether an advantaged social background compensates for initial occupational penalties across different institutional settings. Spline regression models with inverse probability weighting are performed to predict occupational achievements over the first 10 years after labour ...
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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
103 (2026), 101146
| Irene Michelin, Filippo Gioachin, Paolo Barbieri
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Risk attitudes are important predictors of various economic decisions and socioeconomic outcomes. Although studies show that peoples’ general willingness to take risks decreases with age, there are few reports on the age dependence of domain-specific risk attitudes. Drawing on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this study employs a proxy variable approach to disentangle age from periodic and cohort effects, ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
212 (2023), August 2023, 534–563
| Neil Murray, Levent Neyse, Carsten Schröder
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Empirical studies show that women have lower chances of reaching top management positions, known as the glass-ceiling effect. To study women's careers, we develop a search and matching model where job ladders consist of three hierarchical levels and workers can progress in the career by means of internal promotions or by transitioning to another firm. Both, formal applications and referral hiring ...
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Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
34 (2025), 2, 370–402
| Michael Neugart, Anna Zaharieva
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This article examines whether social investment (SI) stock (education), flow (family support), and buffer (safety net) policy functions reduce poverty risk across age groups and family types. To contribute to the discussion on SI’s capability to promote the livelihoods of the vulnerable groups in society, this research focuses on the poverty risk of young adults and single mothers in the twenty-first-century ...
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Social Policy and Society
(2026), 1–16
| Heta Pöyliö
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This paper examines the effects of voluntary, non-formal adult education on political attitudes, participation, and partisanship, exploiting the expansion of courses at East German Volkshochschulen (VHS) after reunification. Combining administrative VHS data with individual survey data and federal election results, we use quasi-random variation in local course availability to identify causal effects ...
2026,
(IZA Discussion Paper No. 18729)
| Li Kathrin Kaja Rupieper, Stephan L. Thomsen
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An influential survey by Joshua Knobe (2003) indicates that the cognitive process ascribing intentionality to an agent is mediated by the perceived moral worth of the action. To assess the external validity of the finding and to obtain more precise estimates of effect sizes, the present study replicates this canonical experiment with a large scale random sample of the German population (N?=?2,295). ...
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Philosophical Psychology
(2026), 1–33
| Christoph Schmidt-Petri, Daniel Labarca-Pinto, Carsten Schröder
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Objective To examine young adult women's and men's time use for routine housework when moving out of the parental household. Background From a life-course perspective, establishing an own household is one of the key markers of the transition to adulthood. Leaving home is associated with new responsibilities concerning the organization of everyday life, including routine housework, and provides ...
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Journal of Marriage and Family
87 (2025), 2, 547–565
| Florian Schulz, Marcel Raab
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One reason gender earning gaps persist is that well-paid jobs presume long work hours, and these are incompatible with family care. Long hours also harm health, and the risks may increase for workers with care and domestic workloads, adding a gendered health penalty. Using representative, longitudinal data from Australia and Germany (144,430–153,659 observations for HILDA and SOEP surveys, respectively, ...
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Social Indicators Research
182 (2026), 1, 7
| Lyndall Strazdins, Tinh Doan, Liana Leach, Jianghong Li, Matthias Pollmann-Schult, Till Kaiser