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Objectives The current study aimed at investigating the longitudinal association between obesity and sickness absence in women and men in Germany.Methods Data were derived from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) which is a nationally representative, longitudinal study of private households in Germany. We draw on data from 2002 to 2012. Information on self-rated body mass index has been collected ...
In:
BMJ Open
8 (2018), 6, e019839
| Katrin Christiane Reber, Hans-Helmut König, André Hajek
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This paper investigates how working from home affects employees’ work effort. Employees who have the possibility to work from home have a high autonomy in scheduling and organizing their work and are therefore assumed to have a higher intrinsic motivation. Thus, we expect working from home to positively influence work effort of employees. We introduce a theoretical model that analyzes whether intrinsic ...
In:
Schmalenbach Business Review
70 (2018), 1, 25-55
| Kira Rupietta, Michael Beckmann
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While general ethnic disadvantages are well documented, much less is known about coinciding disadvantages of ethnic origin and gender. Based on theoretical arguments of human capital theory, sociocultural approaches, labour market segmentation theory, and discrimination mechanisms, we investigate whether immigrant women experience more difficulties on the labour market than immigrant men, non-immigrant ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1072)
| Zerrin Salikutluk, Johannes Giesecke, Martin Kroh
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The subject of emigration from affluent countries, such as Germany, raises the question of who are more likely to leave their highly-industrialized countries known for high living standards, stable political scene and prosperous economy. Using the theory of postmaterialism (Inglehart, 1997) this paper explores emigration intentions of German nationals taking into account country’s specific socio-economic ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1066)
| Elena Samarsky
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The paper addresses the impact of digital health technologies on social inequalities in health. We set focus on mobile health technologies (mHealth) and analyse whether (a) usage of such technologies differs by educational level and (b) whether their usage moderate social inequalities in health satisfaction. We first develop a theoretical model in order to establish potential associations between social ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1079)
| Tim Sawert, Julia Tuppat
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This study examines migration and reunification processes among recent male and female refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria in Germany. Specifically, we analyse different types of spousal migration practices (joint arrival versus arriving alone) and the probability of reunification with the left-behind partner after one year of geographic separation, and to what extent this is shaped by socio-economic ...
In:
Zeitschrift für Familienforschung -Journal of Family Research
31 (2019), 3, 303-332
| Elisabeth K. Kraus, Leonore Sauer, Laura Wenzel
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The aim of this brief report was to replicate the meta-analytic findings concerning the relationship between Big-Five personality and political orientation reported in Sibley, Osborne, and Duckitt (2012) in a sample of N = 29,015 participants from four panels involving representative German samples. We replicated the expected significant correlations for Openness to Experience (r = −0.07; 95% CI [−0.10, ...
In:
Journal of Research in Personality
80 (2019), June 2019, 78-83
| Florian Krieger, Nicolas Becker, Samuel Greiff, Frank M. Spinath
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In this study, we argue that the long arm of childhood that determines adult mortality should be thought of as comprising an observed part and its unobserved counterpart, reflecting the observed socioeconomic position of individuals and their parents and unobserved factors shared within a family. Our estimates of the observed and unobserved parts of the long arm of childhood are based on family-level ...
In:
Demography
55 (2018), 1, 295-318
| Hannes Kröger, Rasmus Hoffmann, Lasse Tarkiainen, Pekka Martikainen
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Survey interviewers can negatively affect survey data by introducing variance and bias into estimates. When investigating these interviewer effects, research typically focuses on interviewer sociodemographics with only a few studies examining the effects of characteristics that are not directly visible such as interviewer attitudes, opinions, and personality. For the study at hand, self-reports of ...
In:
Sociological Methods & Research
52 (2023), 1, 299-334
| Simon Kühne
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This article examines heterogeneity in the effect of unemployment on social participation. Whereas existing studies on this relationship essentially estimate mean effects, we use quantile regression methods to provide a broader and more complete picture. To account for the potential endogeneity of job loss, we estimate quantile treatment effects (on the treated) based on entropy balancing and focus ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1077)
| Lars Kunze, Nicolai Suppa