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When My Money Becomes Our Money: Changes in Couples’ Money Management

Conservative welfare state policies as in Germany often presume that money is a common resource within couples and, therefore, pooled. Research, however, indicates that money is increasingly managed separately or partly separately. This trend is either explained by the diversification of forms of relationships or interpreted as a general decline of the joint pooling of money. Contributing to this debate, ...

Is maternal labor market re-entry after childbirth facilitated by mothers’ and partners’ flextime?

How do national-level work–life balance policies shape the role of flextime in maternal labor market re-entry after childbirth? It is well known that such policies influence the adoption, provision, and support of flexible work arrangements by organizations, but whether they shape the relevance of these arrangements for workers has been neglected in past research. This article analyzes whether mothers’ ...

Weniger Arbeit, mehr Freizeit? Wofür Mütter und Väter flexible Arbeitsarrangements nutzen

Flexible Arbeitsarrangements können die Vereinbarkeit von Erwerbsarbeit mit außerberuflichen Tätigkeiten erleichtern. Gleitzeit, völlig selbstbestimmte Arbeitszeiten und Homeoffice können Beschäftigten mehr Autonomie geben und somit die Möglichkeit, ihre Erwerbsarbeit an ihr Familienleben anzupassen. Flexible Arbeitsarrangements sind daher vor allem für Eltern zentral, die sich tagtäglich der Herausforderung ...

Gender Discrepancies in the Outcomes of Schedule Control on Overtime Hours and Income in Germany

Schedule control can have both positive—e.g., increased income—and negative outcomes—e.g., increased overtime. Here our core interest is whether there are gender discrepancies in these outcomes. Given the different ways in which schedule control can be used, and perceived to be used by men and women, their outcomes are also expected to be different. This is examined using the German Socio-Economic ...

Was heißt, und gibt es kumulative Arbeitslosigkeit? Untersuchungen zu Arbeitslosigkeitsverläufen über 10 Jahre

Geldverwaltung und -verteilung in Paarbeziehungen

Die Armut der Gesellschaft

Statistik: Eine Einführung für Sozialwissenschaftler

Can Happiness Apps Generate Nationally Representative Datasets? - a Case Study Collecting Data on People’s Happiness Using the German Socio-Economic Panel

In the last few years, apps have become an important tool to collect data. Especially in the case of data on people’s happiness, two projects have received substantial attention from both the media and the scientific world: “Track your happiness” from Killingsworth and Gilbert (Science, 330, 932-932, 2010), and “Mappiness,” from MacKerron (2012). Both happiness apps used the experience sampling method ...

Valuing air quality using the life satisfaction approach

I use the life satisfaction approach to value air quality, combining individual-level panel and highresolution SO2 data. To avoid simultaneity problems, I construct a novel instrument exploiting the natural experiment created by the mandated scrubber installation at power plants, with wind directions dividing counties into treatment and control groups. I find a negative effect of pollution on well-being ...