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Previous studies show that performance pay can benefit firms and workers by increasing productivity and wages. Yet, performance pay can also have unintended consequences for worker health. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the hypothesis that alcohol use as “self-medication” is a natural response to the stress and uncertainty associated with performance pay. We find that the ...
In:
Industrial Relations
61 (2022), 4, 353-383
| Mehrzad B. Baktash, John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn
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Background: Theoretical models in both clinical (Psychobiological Model of Social Rejection and Depression) as well as social psychology (Temporal Need Threat Model of Ostracism) have postulated that ostracism (i.e. being excluded and ignored by others) may foster the development of depressive symptomatology. However, stress generation models indicate that depression may also foster ostracism as depressed ...
In:
Journal of Affective Disorders Reports
4 (2021), 100118
| Selma C. Rudert, Stefan Janke, Rainer Greifeneder
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Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially so if partners work in the same occupation or industry. At the same time, being work-linked may benefit their career success. Still, surprisingly little is known about the wellbeing of work-linked couples. Our study fills this gap by examining the satisfaction differences between work-linked ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1127)
| Juliane Hennecke, Clemens Hetschko
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Research on the consequences of intermarriage is almost exclusively looking at immigrants’ labour market outcomes, with little attention given to non-economic indicators. Drawing from set-point theory and taking on a dynamic approach, the authors examine whether having a different- versus a same-origin partner is subject to a selection on life satisfaction, or associated with a greater short-term improvement ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
22 (2021), 3, 1413-1440
| Gina Potarca, Laura Bernardi
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Previous research on informal spousal caregiving has documented a reduced life satisfaction among caregivers, but it has rarely considered the dynamics over time, the mechanisms that drive these effects, and different types of transitions out of caregiving. This study aims to fill this gap by focusing on spousal caregivers’ life satisfaction before, during, and after episodes of caregiving. We apply ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
22 (2021), 3, 1481-1516
| Regina Gerlich, Tobias Wolbring
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We estimate wage premiums (male, union member and public sector) in West Germany using post penalized expectile regression. The estimation relies on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2010-2017. We use a double robust LASSO as penalization technique, which allows us to deal with potential omitted variable bias and to conduct expectile-specific model selection. In addition, we enrich our study ...
Erlangen-Nuremberg:
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Labor and Socio-Economic Research Center,
2020,
(LASER Discussion Papers - Paper No. 120)
| Giovanni Bonaccolto, Marina Töpfer
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This study investigates the effect of smallholders’ personality traits on their land rental market decisions. We develop a conceptual framework and show that these internal factors could affect smallholders’ land rental market participation beyond institutional and socio-demographic factors. Our empirical analysis is based on a survey of 2119 rural households collected in the North China Plain. We ...
In:
China Economic Review
62 (2020), August 2020, 101510
| Chen Qian, Fan Li, Gerrit Antonides, Nico Heerink, Xianlei Ma, Xiande Li
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Introduction: Older adults show higher interindividual performance variability during the learning of new motor sequences than younger adults. It is largely unknown what factors contribute to this variability. This study aimed to, first, characterize age differences in motor sequence learning and, second, examine influencing factors for interindividual performance differences. Method: 30 young adults ...
In:
Psychological Research
85 (2021), 4, 1488–1502
| Katharina Zwingmann, Lena Hübner, Willem B. Verwey, Jonathan S. Barnhoorn, Ben Godde, Claudia Voelcker-Rehage
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This study documents that worker-level variation in tasks has played a key role in the widening of the German Native-Foreign Wage Gap. I find idiosyncratic differences account for up to 34 per cent of the wage gap. Importantly, natives specialize in high-paying interactive activities not only between, but also within occupations. In contrast, foreign workers specialize in low-paying manual activities. ...
In:
Labour
36 (2022), 2, 167-195
| Eduard Storm
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This paper is the first to empirically study the relationship between spatial distributions of labor market inspections and noncompliance with Germany's minimum-wage law. Combining novel administrative data with large-scale longitudinal survey data, we document that the inspection probability is higher in regions with higher noncompliance. This implies risk-based allocation of the inspection efforts ...
In:
FinanzArchiv
77 (2021), 1, 1-58
| Mattis Beckmannshagen, Alexandra Fedorets