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This paper starts with three fundamental insights from social science and economics: (1) that the conditions and consequences of individual behavior can only be studied empirically on the basis of longitudinal data, (2) that individual behavior is embedded in social contexts and social aggregates, and (3) that formal organizations – e.g., firms, schools, universities – are becomming more important ...
In:
Rat für Sozial- und WirtschaftsDaten (RatSWD) ,
Building on Progress. Expanding the Research Infrastructure for the Social, Economic, and Behavioral Sciences
Opladen: Budrich Unipress
971-984
| Stefan Liebig
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The paper introduces a short scale for measuring attitudes to four fundamental principles of the just distribution of benefits and burdens in a society. The Basic Social Justice Orientations (BSJO) scale is an eight-item scale that measures agreement with the equality, equity, need, and entitlement principle. In contrast to comparable other scales that have been used in justice research in the past, ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2016,
(SOEPpapers 831)
| Stefan Liebig, Sebastian Hülle, Meike May
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Almost 25 years after the fall of the Wall and far more eastern Germans are unhappy with their income than western Germans. In 2013, around 44 percent of employed eastern Germans rated their earnings as unfair compared with approximately one third in western Germany. Although the east-west gap has been diminishing since 2005--to around 12 percent in 2013--this is not because eastern Germans feel that ...
In:
DIW Economic Bulletin
4 (2014), 11, 59-71
| Stefan Liebig, Sebastian Hülle, Jürgen Schupp
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This research note describes the Factorial Survey and its implementation in the Pretest 2008 of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The main research objective of this study was to investigate the capability of Factorial Surveys in large population surveys. Therefore, we created a vignette module that was part of the CAPI-questionnaire with 24 descriptions of fulltime employees. Respondents gave ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2009,
(SOEPpapers 238)
| Stefan Liebig, Carsten Sauer, Katrin Auspurg, Thomas Hinz, Jürgen Schupp
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The rise in female labor market participation and the growth of “atypical” employment arrangements has, over the last few decades, brought about a steadily decreasing percentage of households in which the man is the sole breadwinner, and a rising percentage of dual-earner households. Against this backdrop, the present paper investigates the impact of household contexts in which the traditional male ...
In:
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
30 (2012), 2, 219-232
| Stefan Liebig, Carsten Sauer, Jürgen Schupp
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The present research combines the capability approach (CA) with the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to investigate the effects of social norms and personal autonomy on sustainable consumption behavior. The approaches bear some similarities, but differ in that the CA attaches more importance to autonomy and highlights the indirect effects of social influence. In contrast to TPB, the CA suggests indirect ...
In:
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
57 (2015), August 2015, 64-72
| Ortrud Leßmann, Torsten Masson
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Advice is important for decision making, especially in the financial sector. We investigate how individuals assess risk preferences of others given sociodemographic information or pictures. Both non-professionals and financial professionals participate in this artefactual field experiment. Subjects mainly rely on the other's self-assessment of risk preferences and on gender when forming the belief ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2012,
(SOEPpapers 475)
| Andrea Leuermann, Benjamin Roth
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Recent studies have found correlations between risk attitudes and several sociodemographic characteristics. In this paper, we deploy an artefactual field experiment and study whether subjects - non-professionals and -financial professionals - are aware of these correlations. This is largely confirmed by our results for all subject groups. We show that the subjects attach informational value to sociodemographic ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2012,
(SOEPpapers 474)
| Andrea Leuermann, Benjamin Roth
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This paper surveys the economics literature on overeducation. The original motivation to study this topic were reports that the strong increase in the number of college graduates in the early 1970s in the US led to a decrease in the returns to college education. We argue that Duncan and Hoffman’s augmented wage equation – the workhorse model in the overeducation literature – in which wages are regressed ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2011,
(IZA DP No. 5523)
| Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek
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Previous research on graduate employment points to cross-national similarities regarding the comparative advantage of higher education, but also to quality differences in initial employment positions. This article asks what makes for a good start after higher education and provides an institutional perspective on the specific "production mechanisms" of graduate career mobility in different ...
In:
International Journal of Sociology
37 (2007), 2, 29 - 53
| Kathrin Leuze