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Whether vaccination refusal is perceived as a social norm violation that affects layoff decisions has not been tested. Also unknown is whether ascribed low-status groups are subject to double standards when they violate norms, experiencing stronger sanctions in layoff preferences and expectations, and whether work performance attenuates such sanctioning. Therefore, we study layoff preferences and expectations ...
In:
Scientific Reports
14 (2024), 1, 39
| Cristóbal Moya, Sebastian Sattler, Shannon Taflinger, Carsten Sauer
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An occupational aspiration–attainment gap (AAG) is defined as a discrepancy between the socioeconomic status (SES) of the aspired occupation and the one attained. We investigated how experiencing an occupational AAG after transition to vocational education and training (VET) affects three domains of subjective well-being (SWB) among adolescents in Germany (general life, job, and income satisfaction). ...
In:
PLOS ONE
18 (2023), 6, e0287064
| Désirée Nießen, Alexandra Wicht, Clemens M. Lechner
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In recent years, researchers have grappled with the phenomenon that public demand for redistribution has not systematically increased in response to rising inequality. Meritocratic beliefs have been suggested as an explanation for this observation, because they can help legitimize inequalities. Past research has identified local-level inequality, segregation, or diversity as important factors for how ...
In:
Social Sciences
12 (2023), 7, 376
| Nicole Oetke, Maria Norkus, Jan Goebel
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Exposure to expectations for active aging may be modulated by age and individual resources (socioeconomic status, social integration, and health) via multiple pathways. Using a cross-sectional, nationally representative sample of adults aged 17 to 94 (N = 2,007), we investigated the relations between age, individual resources, and perceived expectations for active aging (PEAA) in three domains (physical ...
In:
The International Journal of Aging and Human Development
97 (2023), 3, 267-288
| Maria K. Pavlova, Sonja Radoš, Klaus Rothermund, Rainer K. Silbereisen
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Donations and unpaid working are two important forms of non-market activities that are usually considered separately in the literature. The purpose of this paper is to empirically test hypotheses on determinants of giving to organizations. In particular, the importance of voluntary work for giving behavior is examined in comparison to other unpaid activities. In addition, the aim is to find out whether ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2023,
(IZA DP No. 16142)
| Olaf Hübler
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Abstract Since the 1980s inflationary pressures seem to materialise over-proportionately outside sectors of consumer goods and services. We combine the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices with indices for asset prices, such as stocks and real estate, as well as a proxy for the costs of public goods to develop alternative inflation measures in Germany since the introduction of the Euro. Real economic ...
In:
The World Economy
47 (2024), 2, 618-636
| Karl-Friedrich Israel, Gunther Schnabl
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We study the local evolution of female labour supply and cultural norms in West Germany in reaction to the sudden presence of East Germans who migrated to the West after reunification. These migrants grew up with high rates of maternal employment, whereas West German families mostly followed the traditional breadwinner-housewife model. We find that West German women increase their labour supply and ...
In:
The Economic Journal
134 (2024), 659, 1146–1172
| Jonas Jessen, Sophia Schmitz, Felix Weinhardt
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The COVID-19 pandemic and related closures of day care centres and schools significantly increased the amount of care work done by parents. There has been much speculation over whether the pandemic increased or decreased gender equality in parental care work. Based on representative data for Germany from spring 2020 and winter 2021 we present an empirical analysis that shows that although gender inequality ...
In:
German Economic Review
23 (2022), 4, 641-667
| Jonas Jessen, C. Katharina Spiess, Sevrin Waights, Katharina Wrohlich
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Decades of evidence point to the vital role of parents in shaping their children’s partisan leanings, particularly concerning mainstream parties. And yet the contours of intergenerational influence remain quite obscured. For instance, scholars disagree on when social learning in the household occurs (childhood vs adolescence) and about who is the dominant socializer (mother vs father). Data from a ...
In:
Political Studies
72 (2024), 2, 634-651
| Jennifer Fitzgerald, Pavel Bacovsky
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Intuition is a central element of entrepreneurial decision-making. We conceptually replicate a published study by using new representative data from 1961 adults and the widely used Cognitive Reflection Test, which assesses the ability to avoid intuitive decisions and to switch to an analytical process. We extend the analysis by exploring occupational sorting versus environmental influence as mechanisms, ...
In:
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
48 (2024), 4, 1082-1109
| Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neyse