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Comparisons are crucial in shaping evaluations of one’s own position. Following this notion, we investigated the role of historical, financial, partner, occupational, and regional pay referents in predicting the just gross hourly earnings in a representative sample of German workers. Looking at this broad range of pay referents, we find that higher reference earnings were generally associated with ...
In:
European Sociological Review
40 (2024), 1, 129–142
| Philipp Simon Eisnecker, Jule Adriaans
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Immunization by vaccination is one of the most important tools for fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet in many countries, immunization campaigns have been hampered by vaccine hesitancy within the population. Building on the idea that vaccination decisions are embedded in the broader societal context, we study the role of generalized trust—the belief that most people can generally be trusted—in vaccine ...
In:
PLOS ONE
17 (2022), 12, e0278854
| Philipp Simon Eisnecker, Martin Kroh, Simon Kühne
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This cumulative thesis contributes to the investigation of the wage and wealth consequences of temporary employment in and outside of Europe by answering three more specific research questions in four articles. These are all motivated by recent large-scale global trends such as globalization and technological change, which have increased labor market uncertainties over the last few decades. The first ...
2023,
| Sophia Fauser
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Do trade unions benefit from economic crises by attracting new members among workers concerned about job security? To address this question, we provide a comprehensive empirical investigation based on panel data from Germany, where workers individually decide on their membership. We analyse whether exogenously manipulated perceptions of job insecurity encourage individuals to join a union. Firm-level ...
In:
Economica
90 (2023), 359, 1041-1088
| Adrian Chadi, Laszlo Goerke
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Technological change and globalisation have been transforming the structure of labour demand in favour of workers performing cognitive tasks. Even though past research has found that labour force participation is an important determinant of fertility behaviour, few studies have addressed the fertility effects of the long-term structural changes of labour market. To fill this gap, we measure the cognitive ...
Warsaw:
Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw,
2023,
(Working Papers No. 8/2023 (415))
| Honorata Bogusz, Anna Matysiak, Michaela Kreyenfeld
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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this paper analyzes changes in the gender pay gap in West Germany between 1984 and 2020. The literature generally observes a catching-up of women over time with a slowdown since the mid-1990s and often concentrates on the USA. We present both an aggregate and detailed decomposition of changes in wages allowing us to directly test for changes in the components ...
In:
Journal for Labour Market Research
57 (2023), 1, 11
| Marina Bonaccolto-Töpfer, Carolina Castagnetti, Luisa Rosti
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Using representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper finds a statistically significant union wage premium in Germany of almost three percent, which is not simply a collective bargaining premium. Given that the union membership fee is typically about one percent of workers’ gross wages, this finding suggests that it pays off to be a union member. Our results show that the ...
In:
Economies
11 (2023), 2, 50
| Marina Bonaccolto-Töpfer, Claus Schnabel
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Minimum wages are increasingly discussed as an instrument against (in-work) poverty and income inequality in Europe. Just recently the German government opted for a substantial ad-hoc increase of the minimum-wage level to €12 per hour mentioning poverty prevention as an explicit goal. We use the introduction of the federal minimum wage in Germany in 2015 to study its redistributive impact on disposable ...
In:
Journal of European Social Policy
33 (2022), 2, 216-232
| Teresa Backhaus, Kai-Uwe Müller
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From a biological perspective, humans differ in the speed they age, and this may manifest in both mental and physical health disparities. The discrepancy between an individual’s biological and chronological age of the brain (“brain age gap”) can be assessed by applying machine learning techniques to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data. Here, we examined the links between brain age gap and a broad ...
In:
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
14 (2022), 791222
| Philippe Jawinski, Sebastian Markett, Johanna Drewelies, Sandra Düzel, Ilja Demuth, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, Gert G. Wagner, Denis Gerstorf, Ulman Lindenberger, Christian Gaser, Simone Kühn
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The IAB’s Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) and the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) are the two data sets most commonly used to analyze wage inequality in Germany. While the SIAB is based on administrative reports by employers to the social security system, the SOEP is a survey data set in which respondents self-report their wages. Both data sources have their specific advantages and ...
In:
Journal for Labour Market Research
57 (2023), 1, 8
| Heiko Stüber, Markus M. Grabka, Daniel D. Schnitzlein