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Intragenerational wage mobility and social disadvantage: A comparative study of West Germany and the United States

This article studies wage mobility during the early career in West Germany and the United States. We examine the extent of intragenerational wage fluctuations, whether they structure into upward mobility trends or remain volatile variations, and whether mobility aligns with classical stratification dimensions (gender, social origin, and education). We highlight three main findings. First, intragenerational ...

Maternal Life Satisfaction and Child Development from Toddlerhood to Adolescence

In this paper we analyse the association between maternal well-being and child development at different ages. We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) which captures maternal life satisfaction and numerous cognitive and non-cognitive child development outcomes. We identify a strong positive association between mothers’ life satisfaction and their children’s development when these are ...

The Heterogeneous Effects of Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

We empirically analyze the heterogeneous welfare effects of unemployment insurance and social assistance. We estimate a structural life-cycle model of singles' and married couples' labor supply and savings decisions. The model includes heterogeneity by age, education, wealth, sex and household composition. In aggregate, social assistance dominates unemployment insurance; however, the opposite ...

Comparing the Incomparable? Issues of Lacking Common Support, Functional-Form Misspecification, and Insufficient Sample Size in Decompositions

Decompositions make it possible to investigate whether gaps between groups in certain outcomes would remain if groups had comparable characteristics. In practice, however, such a counterfactual comparability is difficult to establish in the presence of lacking common support, functional-form misspecification, and insufficient sample size. In this article, the authors show how decompositions can be ...

Ökologischer und digitaler Wandel: Die ökonomische Situation beeinflusst die Wahrnehmung der doppelten Transformation

Die Beteiligung der Erwerbspersonen ist für den ökologischen und digitalen Wandel entscheidend, denn ohne ihre Arbeitsleistung und ihr Know-how kann die doppelte Transformation nicht gelingen. Gleichzeitig entstehen im Wandel aber auch Ängste und Sorgen. Sie können dazu führen, dass sich die nötigen Anpassungsprozesse verzögern oder sogar verhindert werden. Denkbar ist aber auch, dass die Furcht vor ...

Multiple imputation of ordinal missing not at random data

We introduce a selection model-based imputation approach to be used within the Fully Conditional Specification (FCS) framework for the Multiple Imputation (MI) of incomplete ordinal variables that are supposed to be Missing Not at Random (MNAR). Thereby, we generalise previous work on this topic which involved binary single-level and multilevel data to ordinal variables. We apply an ordered probit ...

Testfall Armut. Zum Zusammenhang von Ungleichheitseinstellungen und sozialer Lage

In zeitdiagnostischen Arbeiten wird häufig vermutet, dass sich kosmopolitische Einstellungskomplexe in oberen sozialen Lagen finden, wohingegen untere soziale Lagen durch kommunitaristische Werthaltungen gekennzeichnet sind. Dieser Beitrag nimmt die Armutspopulation als unterstes Segment des sozialen Stratifikationsgefüges in den Blick, um am Testfall dieser Gruppe Einstellungen zu verschiedenen sozialen ...

Bürger- und Klimageld als Wende zu einer generationengerechteren Sozial- und Klimapolitik?

Beitrag zur gemeinsamen Veranstaltung der Sektionen Sozialpolitik sowie Umwelt- und Nachhaltigkeitssoziologie zum Thema »Ungleichheitseffekte klimapolitischer Maßnahmen und die Rolle der Sozialpolitik«

Energie- und Bürgergeld als Transformationsschritte zu einer generationengerechteren Sozial- und Klimapolitik

Historical and Cross-Country Differences in Life Satisfaction Across Retirement in Germany and Switzerland From 2000 to 2019

Objectives: Recent trends, such as changes in pension systems or cohort differences in individual resources, have altered the face of retirement transitions. Little is known about how these trends have affected older people’s life satisfaction around retirement age in the past decades. In this study, we investigated how levels and changes in life satisfaction before and after retirement changed over ...