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This article concerns itself with the effects of dismissal protection on personnel management behaviour within companies. The basis of the empirical analysis is 41 expert interviews conducted in 2006 as well as information available from a standardised survey of 750 personnel managers which was carried out in 2007. As a whole the effects of dismissal protection on personnel management are perceived ...
In:
Management revue
18 (2007), 3, 322-349
| Florian Schramm, Michael Schlese
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Berlin:
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin),
2001,
(Discussion Paper No. 244)
| Jörg-Peter Schräpler
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In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch (Proceedings of the "5th International Conference of German Socio-Economic Panel Study Users", ed. by Holst, Elke; Hunt, Jennifer and Schupp, Jürgen)
123 (2003), 1, 109-124
| Jörg-Peter Schräpler
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2004,
| Jörg-Peter Schräpler
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Many validation studies deal with item nonresponse and measurement error in earnings data. In this article, the author explores respondents’ motives for failing to reveal earnings using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The SOEP collects socioeconomic information from private households in the Federal Republic of Germany. The author explains the evolution of income nonresponse in the SOEP and ...
In:
Sociological Methods & Research
33 (2004), 1, 118-156
| Jörg-Peter Schräpler
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In:
Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv (ASTA)
86 (2002), 163-175
| Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
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In:
Weekly Report
1 (2005), 22, 149-152
| Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
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Despite the relatively extensive research on pay levels and the consequences of income disparities, little is known about which reference groups people choose for comparative evaluation of personal income and why different selection patterns emerge. The aim of this paper is to dig deeper for answers to the following three questions: (1) What are the most important reference groups for income comparisons? ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2010,
(SOEPpapers 333)
| Simone Schneider
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Income comparisons are among the key mechanisms used to explain satisfaction and happiness, among other outcomes. Yet progress on the questions of who people use as social referents and whether differential selection patterns exist can only be made based on valid and reliable measures of pay referents included in large-scale population surveys. The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) is pursuing ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2010,
(DIW Berlin Data Documentation 48)
| Simone Schneider, Jürgen Schupp
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Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people’s opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological dispositions. To test the empirical validity of this proposition, Gibbons and Buunk (1999) created an instrument ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2011,
(SOEPpapers 360)
| Simone Schneider, Jürgen Schupp