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This study uses the German socioeconomic panel data to investigate the effects of mass migration of East Germans on the generalized trust of West Germans who experienced the aftermath of the unification. Results suggest that West Germans’ trust is negatively correlated with migration, but the persistent effect is only confined to participants in the labor markets at the time. The subsequent analysis ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
179 (2020), November 2020, 425-441
| Seong Hee Kim, Byung-Yeon Kim
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Over a million people sought asylum in Germany between 2014 and 2016. During this time, many Germans began volunteering in various ways to help refugees and mentorship pro- grams in particular gained significance. As this report shows, participating in a mentorship program has a positive impact on refugees: They improve their language skills and become more socially active. Mentors experience the relationship ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
10 (2020), 49, 457-465
| Magdalena Krieger, Philipp Jaschke, Martin Kroh, Nicolas Legewie, Lea-Maria Löbel
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Employees exert emotional effort in order to perform their work effectively, albeit to varying degrees based on their occupation. These emotional job demands (EJDs) affect employees’ well-being, yet evidence is mixed as to whether these effects are positive or negative. One limiting factor in extant studies is that they investigated short-term effects or cross-sectional relationships between EJDs (usually ...
In:
Journal of Applied Psychology
106 (2021), 11, 1734-1749
| Susan Reh, Cornelia Wieck, Susanne Scheibe
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We analyzed decision making under risk in a group of 50 poor individuals and a group of 50 rich individuals from the city of Lima, Peru, using the Columbia Card Task game. Contrary to the decisions of the rich, the decisions of the poor were insensitive to changes in the magnitude of potential losses: the risk taking of the poor did not increase when potential losses were low compared to when they ...
In:
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
77 (2018), 96-106
| Piero Ronzani, Lucia Savadori, Giuseppe Folloni, Luigi Mittone
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Ostracism, that is, being excluded and ignored by others, is a highly painful and threatening experience for individuals. Most empirical research on ostracism has been carried out in the lab or focused on samples in specific contexts. Here, we investigate the effects of age on how individuals experience ostracism within a broad, representative sample of the adult German population (the Socio-Economic ...
In:
Developmental Psychology
56 (2020), 10, 1999-2012
| Selma C. Rudert, Stefan Janke, Rainer Greifeneder
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In Germany, more and more parents are taking advantage of early childhood education and care services for their very young children. Since the quality of such services varies, however, children experience very diverse developmental environments. This raises important questions: Which groups of parents are more likely to choose high-quality facilities for their children than others? How do these selection ...
Zürich:
Jacobs Foundation,
2014,
(Annual Report 2013)
| Pia S. Schober, C. Katharina Spieß, Yvonne Anders
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We have developed and implemented a new sampling strategy to better represent very wealthy individuals in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Our strategy is based on the empirical regularity that the very wealthy have at least part of their assets invested in businesses, and that businesses document shares of relevant shareholders in their books. Our results show that combined analysis of the ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1114)
| Carsten Schröder, Charlotte Bartels, Konstantin Göbler, Markus M. Grabka, Johannes König, Rainer Siegers, Sabine Zinn
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This paper explores whether firms recruit workers with different personality traits for different tasks. We conduct a discrete choice experiment among recruiters of 634 firms in Germany, asking recruiters to choose between job applicants who differ in seven characteristics: professional competence, the Big Five personality traits, and the prospective wage level. We find that all personality traits ...
In:
Labour Economics
78 (2022), 102186
| Caroline Wehner, Andries de Grip, Harald Pfeifer
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Risk attitudes have a significant impact on human decision making. In contrast to the conventional assumption of stable, universal risk attitudes, previous research has found domain‐specific and age‐related differences in risk attitudes. For this reason, a systematic review including 19 studies was conducted to evaluate the relationship between self‐reported risk attitudes and aging in different domains ...
In:
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
34 (2020), 3, 359-378
| Adriana N. König
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Although the Refugee Convention and European asylum legislation state that decisions regarding asylum applications should be determined solely based on persecution and other human rights violations, the outcomes of asylum procedures may be subject to socioeconomic selectivity. This article is the first to analyse whether the human and social capital of asylum-seekers affect the results of decisions ...
In:
European Sociological Review
36 (2020), 5, 663-683
| Yuliya Kosyakova, Herbert Brücker