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This study investigates how atypical employment (i.e., part-time, temporary work, mini-jobs) affects workers' ability to accumulate financial assets and exposes them to asset poverty in Germany. Asset poverty occurs when household financial resources (e.g., bank deposits and stock equity) are insufficient to live at the income poverty line for three months. Previously, studies on labour market ...
In:
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
85 (2023), 100803
| Claudia Colombarolli, Philipp M. Lersch
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The role of ethnic clustering in ethnic identity formation has remained unexplored, mainly due to missing detailed data. This study closes the knowledge gap for Germany by employing a unique combination of datasets, the survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and disaggregated information at low geographical levels from the last two but still unexploited full German censuses, 1970 and 1987. ...
In:
Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies
22 (2023), 2, 205–230
| Amelie F. Constant, Simone Schüller, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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The financial sector plays a crucial role in society. Consequently, prior research has examined the preferences of professionals working in finance. However, these studies have tended to be cross-sectional and have neglected the dynamic roles played by (self-)selection and socialization. This paper uses longitudinal data from Germany to examine how individuals’ financial risk preferences affect their ...
In:
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
106 (2023), 102071
| Max Deter, André van Hoorn
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Measures based on self-assessments, which are increasingly important in empirical economic research, are plagued by measurement error. This paper presents the first attempt at measuring both revealed and self-reported reliability of individuals’ answers on selfreports of latent characteristics. We show that measurement error on self-reports relevant to economists is heterogeneous across individuals ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2023,
(IZA DP No. 16027)
| Thomas Dohmen, Tomáš Jagelka
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Background: Research has demonstrated the damaging effects of poly-victimization on the mental health of children and adolescents. However, few studies have been conducted in high-risk youth in care (Y-IC) samples. Objective: The study examines the frequency of lifetime victimization and the association of poly-victimization and victimization types on depressiveness, suicidality, and feelings of loneliness ...
In:
Child Abuse & Neglect
154 (2024), August 2024, 106870
| Olivia Lucia Marie Emmerich, Birgit Wagner, Nina Heinrichs, Betteke Maria van Noort
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A large percentage of workers in Europe perceive their earnings to be unfairly low. Such perceptions of unfairness can have far-reaching consequences, ranging from low satisfaction to poor health. To gain insight into the conditions that can attenuate or amplify these adverse consequences, comparative research on the role of country contexts in shaping responses to perceived unfairness is needed. Furthermore, ...
In:
European Sociological Review
39 (2023), 1, 118-131
| Jule Adriaans
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Despite Rawls’ famous call to distinguish between justice and fairness, these and other justice-related words often seem to be used interchangeably by both ordinary people and justice researchers. Based on a survey-embedded question wording experiment (N = 4534) fielded in Germany as part of the GESIS Panel, we explore the effects of three justice words— “just,” “fair,” and “appropriate”—on the sense ...
In:
Social Justice Research
34 (2021), 4, 397-427
| Jule Adriaans, Stefan Liebig, Clara Sabbagh, Guillermina Jasso
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Little is known about historical shifts in subjective age (i.e., how old individuals feel). Moving beyond the very few time-lagged cross-sectional cohort comparisons, we examined historical shifts in within-person trajectories of subjective age from midlife to advanced old age. We used cohort-comparative longitudinal data from middle-age and older adults in the German Ageing Survey (N = 14,928; ~50% ...
In:
Psychological Science
34 (2023), 6, 647-656
| Markus Wettstein, Hans-Werner Wahl, Johanna Drewelies, Susanne Wurm, Oliver Huxhold, Nilam Ram, Denis Gerstorf
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Grundsicherungsleistungen nach SGB II und SGB XII werden häufig nicht beantragt. Auf Basis des SOEP-IS wird für Niedrigeinkommenshaushalte gezeigt, dass viele Menschen im Anspruchsfall bewusst auf eine Beantragung verzichten würden, auch wenn nur ein geringer Teil einen Bezug grundsätzlich ausschließt. Identifiziert werden verschiedene Mechanismen, die zur Nichtinanspruchnahme führen: Kosten-Nutzen-Erwägungen, ...
In:
Sozialer Fortschritt
73 (2024), 5, 347-369
| Felix Wilke
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This study investigates the relationship between homeownership and subjective well-being. Using long panel data from Germany, we find supporting evidence for greater life satisfaction among owners compared to renters only when omitting housing characteristics. This effect reduces by more than half when comparing only owners with a mortgage to renters. Examining a variety of domain satisfactions, we ...
In:
Applied Research in Quality of Life
18 (2023), 5, 2227-2257
| Sebastian Will, Timon Renz