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Die Gewerkschaften konnten für die Beschäftigten höhere Löhne erzielen: Interview

Intergenerational Health Mobility in Germany

We describe the joint permanent health distribution of parents and children in Germany using 25 years of data from the Socio-Economic Panel. We derive three main results: First, a ten percentile increase in parental permanent health is associated with a 2.3 percentile increase in their child’s health. Second, employing our anchoring method, we find that a percentile point increase in permanent health ...

Menschen mit höheren Einkommen sind glücklicher: Interview

Die psychische Gesundheit in Deutschland hat sich ähnlich wie die Wirtschaft entwickelt: Interview

The Role of Polygenic Indices in Inequality of Opportunity

Equality of opportunity is a principle of social justice, although there are different conceptions of it. We distinguish between fair and luck egalitarian equality of opportunity. Both conceptions consider to be unfair inequalities in life chances resulting from ascribed characteristics such as social origin and sex. They differ, however, in that fair equality of opportunity considers it fair when ...

Measuring Digital Work in (German) Employee Surveys: An Overview and Proposal of Systematization

Innovative measurements in representative surveys are needed to draw meaningful conclusions about the prevalence of digital work and its consequences for employees’ job demands and resources. Since the digitalization of work encompasses a variety of technological developments and possible implications for employment, there are many different approaches to its operationalization. Within this article, ...

Working memory and fluid intelligence are differentially related to categories of urban fabric in older adults: Results from the Berlin aging study

Urbanization is Globally increasing at a rapid rate but its consequences for mental health, including cognitive functioning, are not well understood. In particular, little is known about the effects of different morphological features associated with urban development, such as variations in the densities of urban fabric (i.e., degrees of ground sealing). We investigated associations of episodic memory, ...

Representativeness in Business Surveys and Linked Employer Employee Data: Evidence from the SOEP-LEE2 Data for Germany

A central goal of the dtec.bw project SOEP-LEE2 is to provide high-quality data for research in organisational, business, and economic studies. To this end, the project conducted two multi-year surveys among German establishments. The first survey, SOEP-LEE2-Core, is linkable to employee data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and is characterized by a complex sampling procedure. The second survey, ...

The Socio-Economic Panel Linked Employer-Employee Survey Version 2 (SOEP-LEE2): Overview and Results from the First Wave

The trend toward digitalization not only changes the organization of work in areas such as production, services and logistics, but also the work situation of employees. To study such changes, data is needed at both the individual and corporate levels. The SOEP-LEE2 project contributes to research through a linked employer-employee study in combination with an establishment and self-employed survey ...

Measuring Loneliness: The European Union Loneliness Survey Covering 27 European Countries

While Chap. 1introduces the concept of loneliness as a negative feeling associated with perceived deficiencies in the quantity and quality of social relationships, this chapter focuses on how this concept is operationalised and measured in surveys. We start by discussing the literature on the measurement of loneliness, which often relies on the use of psychometric scales. In large-scale surveys the ...