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Purpose: Individual differences in the development of perceived job insecurity among young workers may be influenced by characteristics of the first job (contract type and sector) and individual background (education and previous unemployment), and can have implications for subsequent health and well-being. The aim of this study was to investigate the development of perceived job insecurity during ...
In:
International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health
92 (2019), 6, 901-918
| Katharina Klug, Claudia Bernhard-Oettel, Anne Mäkikangas, Ulla Kinnunen, Magnus Sverke
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A stylized finding on returns to vocational education is that vocational compared to general education generates a differential life course pattern of employability: while vocational education guarantees smooth transitions into the labour market and thus generates initial advantages, these erode with increasing age, leading to late-life reversals in employment chances. We contribute to this research ...
In:
Social Inclusion
7 (2019), 3, 224-253
| Fabian Kratz, Alexander Patzina, Corinna Kleinert, Hans Dietrich
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I investigate how the German income tax code affects the timing of marriages. The German income tax code allows married couples to benefit from full income splitting relative to unmarried couples. If their individual incomes differ, legally married couples may benefit from jointly filing their income taxes and thus fully splitting their incomes because of increasing marginal tax rates. The gain from ...
In:
Applied Economics
52 (2020), 5, 475-489
| Alexander Fink
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The 2D: 4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the second finger to the length of the fourth finger, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study reported, among other things, an association between the left-hand 2D:4D and self-employment in a sample of 974 adults. In this preregistered study, we replicate the 2D:4D results on a sample of more than 2100 adults ...
In:
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
46 (2022), 1, 21-43
| Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neyse, Magnus Johannesson, Anna Dreber
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Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one observed in the data, which is mainly due to large positive selection of women into full-time employment. ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1070)
| Patricia Gallego Granados, Katharina Wrohlich
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The availability of childcare is a crucial factor for mothers’ labour force participation. While most of the literature examines childcare for preschool children, we specifically focus on primary school-aged children, estimating the effect of formal afternoon care on maternal labour supply. To do so, we use a novel matching technique, entropy balancing, and draw on the rich and longitudinal data of ...
In:
Empirical Economics
57 (2019), 3, 769-803
| Ludovica Gambaro, Jan Marcus, Frauke Peter
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Does the geographical concentration of ethnic minorities influence their descriptive representation in closed-list systems? Counterintuitive to the idea that single-member district electoral rules are necessary for minorities’ geographical representation, we argue that, in closed-list systems, parties are incentivised to allocate promising list positions to those minority candidates who are based in ...
In:
International Political Science Review
40 (2019), 5, 643-658
| Lucas Geese, Diana Schacht
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Lifespan theory posits that socio-historical contexts shape individual development. Inline with this proposition, cohort differences favoring later-born cohorts have beenwidely documented for cognition and health. However, little is known about historicalchange in how key resources of psychosocial functioning such as control beliefsdevelop in old age. We pooled data from three independent samples: ...
In:
Psychology and Aging
34 (2019), 8, 1090-1108
| Denis Gerstorf, Johanna Drewelies, Sandra Düzel, Jacqui Smith, Hans-Werner Wahl, Oliver Schilling, Ute Kunzmann, Jelena S. Siebert, Martin Katzorrek, Peter Eibich, Ilja Demuth, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, Gert G. Wagner, Ulman Lindenberger, Jutta Heckhausen, Nilam Ram
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Multilevel models with persons nested in countries are increasingly popular in cross-country research. Recently, social scientists have started to analyze data with a three-level structure: persons at level 1, nested in year-specific country samples at level 2, nested in countries at level 3. By using a country fixed-effects estimator, or an alternative equivalent specification in a random-effects ...
In:
Sociological Methodology
111 (2019), 166-190
| Marco Giesselmann, Alexander Schmidt-Catran
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Objective: Missed events are defined as the nonoccurrence of expected major life events within a specified time frame. We examined whether missed events should be studied in research on growth by exploring the role of missed events for changes in subjective well-being (SWB) and the Big Five personality traits. Method: The samples were selected from two nationally representative panel studies, the German ...
In:
Journal of Personality
89 (2021), 1, 113-131
| Maike Luhmann, Susanne Buecker, Till Kaiser, Mira Beermann