-
This article documents the number of target persons participating in the panel surveys of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) as well as the number of respondents who temporarily dropout and of those leaving the panel (attrition). NEPS comprises panel surveys with six mutually exclusive starting cohorts covering the complete life span. Sample sizes, numbers of participants and temporary as ...
In:
AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv
14 (2020), 2, 163-206
| Sabine Zinn, Ariane Würbach, Hans Walter Steinhauer, Angelina Hammon
-
By focusing on a period of a major public childcare expansion in Germany, this study investigates whether higher levels of childcare coverage for under-threes have been positively associated with employment among mothers with different educational backgrounds. Both standard economic labour theories and sociological theories presume that the effect of public childcare provision varies with mothers’ ...
In:
Journal of European Social Policy
30 (2020), 3, 370-385
| Gundula Zoch
-
The contemporaneous association of socioeconomic status (SES) with health is well-established, whereas much less is known about the health-related effects of social mobility (i.e., movements across different SES). This study investigates the impact of SES in childhood and adulthood on health satisfaction across the life course. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and education as ...
In:
Social Science & Medicine
242 (2019), December 2019, 112603
| Nadia Steiber
-
In the last decade, the call for improved estimates of lesbians, gay men and bisexual (LGB) populations has grown steadily. This is related to the increasing visibility of same-sex unions and the rapidly evolving changes in the legal and normative institutional frameworks regarding same-sex relationships in Western countries. The aim of this article is to present the sampling strategy and discuss the ...
In:
Journal of Official Statistics
35 (2019), 4, 753-776
| Stephanie Steinmetz, Mirjam Fischer
-
The prospects for the next generation—whether young people, regardless of their backgrounds, have equal chances of social success—pose a momentous problem for modern societies. Inequality of opportunity, often reflected by social immobility, is a threat to the egalitarian promise and the stability of your society. This work argues that social capital transmission plays an important role for the chances ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
142 (2019), 2, 855-885
| Fabian Stephany
-
The testing of measurement invariance (MI) across different cultural backgrounds for short screeners of mental health has been mostly neglected. Therefore, we examined MI in the most common mental health screeners worldwide used to assess the psychological indicators of health among migrants and refugees: the Short-Form-12 Health Survey (SF-12) for health-related quality of life and the Patient Health ...
In:
Psychological Assessment
32 (2020), 7, 690-697
| Ana N. Tibubos, Hannes Kröger
-
The article addressed the impact of a transition to two flexible working time arrangements, employee- and employer-oriented, on subjective well-being (measured by job satisfaction and satisfaction with leisure time) from a longitudinal perspective. The study investigated which of three patterns of well-being, i.e., stability, recovery, or chronic strain/long-term improvement, are associated with these ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
19 (2018), 6, 1727-1748
| Ekaterina Uglanova, Jan Dettmers
-
Flextime, or Flexitime, leads to greater worker satisfaction and well-being, but evidence shows increased working-time autonomy also leads to a greater risk of burnout and overload. The aim of this study is to estimate the effects of working-time arrangements with differing levels of autonomy on job and leisure satisfaction as well as subjective health. It uses working excessive hours as the threshold ...
In:
German Journal of Human Resource Management
32 (2018), 3-4, 177-194
| Julia Seitz, Thomas Rigotti
-
This study addresses the much-discussed issue of the relationship between health and income. In particular, it focuses on the relation between mental health and household income by using generalized additive models of location, scale and shape and thus employing a distributional perspective. Furthermore, this study aims to give guidelines to applied researchers interested in taking a distributional ...
In:
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
16 (2019), 20, 4009
| Alexander Silbersdorff, Kai Sebastian Schneider
-
This article focuses on scholarly discourse on the science-policy interface, and in particular on questions regarding how this discourse can be understood in the course of history and which lessons we can learn. We aim to structure the discourse, show kinships of different concepts, and contextualize these concepts. For the twentieth century we identify three major phases that describe interactions ...
In:
Publications : Open Access Scholarly Publishing Journal
7 (2019), 4,
| Nataliia Sokolovska, Benedikt Fecher, Gert G. Wagner