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Relations to family and friends are a key dimension of an individual’s social integration and, by extension, are crucial for the social cohesion of societies. Based on that principle, this study explores the effects of unemployment on close personal relations and asks whether negative effects of unemployment are primarily explicable as financial losses or social aspects of identity. This analytical ...
In:
KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
75 (2023), Suppl 1, 357–386
| Carlotta Giustozzi
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Using panel data from 1985 to 2019, we provide the first comprehensive investigation of the relationship between trade union membership and job satisfaction in Germany. Cross-sectional analyses reveal a negative correlation, while fixed effects estimates indicate an insignificant relationship. This is also true if we incorporate information on collective bargaining coverage or the existence of works ...
In:
Labour Economics
78 (2022), October 2022, 102238
| Laszlo Goerke, Yue Huang
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This paper examines possible spillover effects of parental unemployment on the subjective wellbeing of 12- to 21-year-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their children’s life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal unemployment has negative ...
Munich:
CESifo,
2023,
(CESifo Working Paper No. 10776)
| Melanie Borah, Andreas Knabe, Christine Lücke
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Abstract Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study began in 2009, and built on and incorporated its predecessor the British Household Panel Survey. It is the largest survey of its kind in the world and provides rich opportunities for economic research and policy analysis. In this introduction to a symposium on Understanding Society, we review the main features of the study, how it ...
In:
Fiscal Studies
44 (2023), 4, 317-340
| Michaela Benzeval, Thomas F. Crossley, Edith Aguirre
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This paper investigates the causal effect of education on life satisfaction, exploring effect heterogeneity along employment status. We use exogenous variation in compulsory schooling requirements and the build-up of new, academically more demanding schools, shifting educational attainment along the entire distribution of schooling. Leveraging plant closures and longitudinal information, we also address ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2023,
(SOEPpapers 1192)
| Alexander Bertermann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
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Existing studies on contextual health effects struggle to account for compositional bias, limiting causal interpretation. We use refugee dispersal in Germany as a natural experiment to study the effect of area-level socioeconomic deprivation on mental and physical health, while considering the potential mediating role of neighbourhood characteristics. Refugees subject to dispersal (n = 1466) are selected ...
In:
SSM - Population Health
25 (2024), 2024, 101596
| Louise Biddle, Kayvan Bozorgmehr
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Abstract We analyze the extent to which occupational identity is conducive to worker well-being. Using a unique survey data set of individuals working in the German skilled crafts and trades (2017–2018, n = 757), we use a novel occupational identity measure that captures identity more broadly than just referring to organizational identification and social group membership, but rather comprises personal ...
In:
Kyklos
75 (2022), 2, 184-235
| Martin Binder, Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg
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Generalized trust represents an important regional resource for a firm. It increases human capital, fosters frequent interaction and information sharing, and lowers transaction costs. We provide empirical evidence on the impact of generalized trust among people on firm innovation in German regions. Our observation period ranges from 2004 to 2018. A trust measure is generated by using survey data from ...
In:
Research Policy
52 (2023), 8, 104813
| Thore Sören Bischoff, Ann Hipp, Petrik Runst
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Existing research suggests adverse short-term health effects of economic crises during early life, yet, the long-term health effects for children and adolescents exposed to economic crises are still understudied. We investigated the early-adult health implications of experiencing the post-reunification economic crisis in East Germany in the early 1990s during infancy, childhood and adolescence. Using ...
In:
Comparative Population Studies
48 (2023),
| Lara Bister, Jeroen Spijker, Fanny Janssen, Tobias Vogt
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Resilience describes successful adaptation in the face of adversity, commonly inferred from trajectories of well-being following major life events. Alternatively, resilience was conceptualised as a psychological trait, facilitating adaptation through stable individual characteristics. Both perspectives may relate to individual differences in how stress is regulated in daily life. In the present study, ...
In:
Stress and Health
39 (2023), 1, 59-73
| Elisabeth S. Blanke, Florian Schmiedek, Stefan Siebert, David Richter, Annette Brose