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Global and disaggregated measures of earnings mobility: Evidence from five European countries

This paper offers the first application of the local approximation method pioneered by Schluter and Trede (2003) for the Shorrocks mobility indices across the earnings distribution for a range of European Countries covering the main European social models: Denmark, Germany, Spain, the UK and Italy in the pre-accession EU (1994-2001). This insightful approach allows us to offer a global and disaggregate ...

Differences in Labour Supply and Income of Women in the Netherlands and the Federal Republic of Germany - A comparative analysis of the effect of taxes and social premiums (Dissertation)

Incentive and Action: Work and Income Decisions at the Intersection of the Labour Market and the Welfare State

The Stability and Change of PSM-Related Values Across Time: Testing Theoretical Expectations Against Panel Data

This article is a response to calls in prior research that we need more longitudinal analyses to better understand the foundations of PSM and related prosocial values. There is wide agreement that it is crucial for theory-building but also for tailoring hiring practices and human resource development programs to sort out whether PSM-related values are stable or developable. The article summarizes existent ...

Contextual effects on individual development of subjective well-being in the second half of life

Lifespan psychology and life course sociology have long acknowledged the role of context for individual functioning and development throughout life. Consistent with these conceptual notions, empirical studies show that various contextual factors influence development of individual-level outcomes. However, we know little about how contextual factors shape individual-level well-being and how well-being ...

Terminal decline in well-being differs between residents in East Germany and West Germany

Lifespan research has long been interested in how contexts shape individual development. Using the separation and later reunification of Germany as a kind of natural experiment we examine whether and how living and dying in the former East or West German context has differentially shaped late-life development of well-being. We apply multi-level growth models to annual reports of life satisfaction collected ...

How does availability of county-level healthcare services shape terminal decline in well-being?

Both lifespan psychology and life course sociology highlight that contextual factors influence individual functioning and development. In the current study, we operationalize context as county-level care services in inpatient and outpatient facilities (e.g., number of care facilities, privacy in facilities) and investigate how the care context shapes well-being in the last years of life. To do so, ...

Reassessing Intergenerational Mobility in Germany and the United States: The Impact of Differences in Lifecycle Earnings Patterns

Using longitudinal data on fathers and their children, this study compares the extent of intergenerational mobility in Germany and the United States and introduces an estimation strategy that corrects estimates of intergenerational earnings elasticities for a possible lifecycle bias. In contrast to previous studies, we find that the extent of intergenerational mobility is more limited in the US than ...

German attitudes to immigration linked to economic self-interest

Analyzing Second-Generation Trajectories from a Life Course Approach: What Mixed Methods Can Offer (Chapter 5)

The transition to adulthood is a phase marked by major life events and eventual turning points. This contribution addresses the methodological aspects related to the application of the life course approach for the study of the life trajectories of the children of immigrants in a cross-national comparative perspective. Since life trajectories are embedded in and determined by structural and institutional ...