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Performance pay is of growing importance to the wage structure as it applies to a rising share of employees. At the same time wage dispersion is growing continuously. This leads to the question of how the growing use of performance pay schemes is related to the increase in wage inequality? German SOEP data for the years 1984 to 2009 confirm the large increase in the application of performance pay schemes. ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2012,
(SOEPpapers 476)
| Katrin Sommerfeld
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2013,
| Bettina Sonnenberg
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People’s involvement in social groups and networks constitutes a resource for societies and individuals. More specifically, involvement represents the basis upon which social integration takes place and provides access to material and non-material goods considered to be rewarding for individuals. Despite substantial research suggesting that unemployment triggers social exclusion and social isolation, ...
Wiesbaden:
Springer VS,
2014,
| Bettina Sonnenberg
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It is still unclear to what extent time allocation retrospectively reported in questionnaires reflects people’s actual behavior. Addressing this research gap, we analyze the congruence of time use information assessed through retrospective questionnaires and through experience sampling methodology. Participants completed standard survey questions on time allocation. In addition, a mobile-phone-based ...
In:
Social Science Research
41 (2012), 5, 1037–1052
| Bettina Sonnenberg, Michaela Riediger, Cornelia Wrzus, Gert G. Wagner
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Objective :The aim of this study was to quantify the magnitude of lifetime costs of overweight and obesity by socioeconomic status (SES). Methods: Differential Costs (DC)-Obesity is a new model that uses time-to-event simulation and the Markov modeling approach to compare lifetime excess costs of overweight and obesity among individuals with low, middle, and high SES. SES was measured by a multidimensional ...
In:
Obesity
25 (2017), 9, 1603-1609
| Diana Sonntag, Marc N. Jarczok, Shehzad Ali
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New and emerging technologies pose a serious challenge for the future of employment. As machines learn to accomplish increasingly complex production tasks, the concern arises that automation will wipe out a great number of jobs. This paper investigates the relationship between the risk posed by the automation of jobs and individual-level occupational mobility using a representative German household ...
In:
Foresight and STI Governance
11 (2017), 3, 37-48
| Alina Sorgner
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Often, a person will become an entrepreneur only after a period of dependent employment, suggesting that occupational choices precede entrepreneurial choices. We investigate the relationship between occupational choice and self-employment. The findings suggest that the occupational choice of future entrepreneurs at the time of labor market entry is partly guided by a taste for skill variety, the prospect ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2013,
(SOEPpapers 533)
| Alina Sorgner, Michael Fritsch
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In:
International Journal of Manpower
21 (2000), 3-4, 206-226
| Asunción Soro-Bonmati
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The present research tested whether the Big Five personality dimensions - extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience - moderate the effects of income on life satisfaction. The authors analyzed data from three large-sample, nationally representative, longitudinal studies: the British Household Panel Survey, the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, and the Household ...
In:
Social Psychological and Personality Science
4 (2013), 1, 46-53
| Christopher J. Soto, Maike Luhmann
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Cambridge:
University of Cambridge, Microsimulation Unit,
2008,
(EUROMOD Working Paper No. EM 10/08)
| Amedeo Spadaro