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This chapter discusses how labour market trends in Germany since the mid-1990s have affected workers in middle-income households. It sets off by looking at the types of jobs carried out by middle-income workers, analysing changes in occupations and sector of employment and discussing the role of rising female labour force participation. It then provides evidence on the share of middle-income workers ...
In:
OECD ,
Is the German Middle Class Crumbling? Risks and Opportunities
Paris: OECD Publishing
56-88
| Valentina S. Consiglio, Sebastian Königs, Horacio Levy
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This chapter examines short-term income dynamics in Germany since the mid-1990s. It first focuses on the mobility patterns of people in the middle-income group over a four-year interval, looking at trends in their risks of sliding out of the middle, and of experiencing poverty, and their opportunities of rising out towards the top. It then looks at changes in the upward mobility into the middle-income ...
In:
OECD ,
Is the German Middle Class Crumbling? Risks and Opportunities
Paris: OECD Publishing
89-101
| Valentina S. Consiglio, Sebastian Königs
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We investigate the consistency of prosocial behaviors in response to changes in the institutional setting of a lab-in-the-field experiment involving primary school students in El Salvador. Students play variants of the dictator game allowing the option to take and with relative unequal initial endowments. We exploit within-subject variation and find that children are sensitive to the enlargement of ...
Milan:
Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano,
2021,
(Development Studies Working Paper N. 478)
| Jacopo Bonan, Sergiu Burlacu, Arianna Galliera
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We present new descriptive evidence on the immigrant-native gap in risk and time preferences in Germany, one of immigrants’ most preferred destination countries. Using the recent waves of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) dataset, we find that the immigrant-native gap in risk preferences has widened for recent immigration cohorts, especially around the time of the 2015 European Refugee Crisis. We attribute ...
In:
Journal of Population Economics
36 (2023), April 2023, 743-778
| Sumit S. Deole, Marc O. Rieger
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Auf der Grundlage eines Einstellungsitems im sozio-ökonomischen Panel, das die individuelle Besorgtheit um den Schutz der Umwelt misst, analysiert der Beitrag die Entwicklung der Umweltsorgen in Deutschland für den Zeitraum 1984–2019. Die Analysen sind hauptsächlich deskriptiver Natur. Es wird ausgewählten Erwartungen und Annahmen nachgegangen, die zum einen in historischen Rückblicken auf die neuere ...
In:
Zeitschrift für Soziologie
50 (2021), 5, 322-337
| Jörg Hartmann, Peter Preisendörfer
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Vaccination has been critical to reducing infections and deaths during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. While previous studies have investigated attitudes toward taking a vaccine, studies on the determinants of COVID-19 vaccination behavior are scant. We examine what characteristics, including socioeconomic and non-economic factors, are associated with vaccination behavior for COVID-19 ...
In:
Vaccines
9 (2021), 12, 1505
| Toshihiro Okubo, Atsushi Inoue, Kozue Sekijima
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Considering soaring wealth inequalities in older age, this research addresses the relationship between family life courses and widening wealth differences between individuals as they age. We holistically examine how childbearing and marital histories are associated with personal wealth at ages 50–59 for Western Germans born between 1943 and 1967. We propose that deviations from culturally and institutionally-supported ...
In:
European Journal of Population
38 (2022), 1, 59-92
| Nicole Kapelle, Sergi Vidal
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Drawing on cumulative advantage/disadvantage and conservation of resources theories, I investigated changes in economic, social, and personal resources and in subjective well-being (SWB) of workers as they stayed continuously employed or continuously unemployed. I considered age, gender, and SES as potential amplifiers of inequality in resources and SWB. Using 28 yearly waves from the German Socio-Economic ...
In:
PLOS ONE
16 (2021), 12, e0261794
| Maria K. Pavlova
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Public debates and current research on “digitalization” suggest that digital technologies could profoundly transform the world of work. While broad claims are common in these debates, empirical evidence remains scarce. This calls for reliable data for empirical research and evidence-based policymaking. We implemented a data module in the Socio-Economic Panel to gather information on digitalization ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
242 (2022), 5-6, 691-705
| Alexandra Fedorets, Stefan Kirchner, Jule Adriaans, Oliver Giering
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Depression contributes to disability more than any other mental disorder and is associated with a reduced health-related quality of life. However, the impact of depression on the social environment is relatively unknown. The current study determined differences in the health-related quality of life between co-living household members of depressed persons and persons in households without depression. ...
In:
Applied Research in Quality of Life
17 (2022), 4, 2087-2100
| Judith Dams, Thomas Grochtdreis, Hans-Helmut König