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Indicators of Social Isolation: A Comparison Based on Survey Data from Germany

The paper presents a data-based comparison of three indicators of social isolation that are frequently used in contemporary social research: (a) low frequency of social contact with friends, relatives, and neighbors (social contact indicator); (b) absence of a discussion network (discussion network indicator); (c) absence of social support (support indicator). All three indicators are in line with ...

Recall – A way to mitigate adverse effects of unemployment on earnings across occupations?

We examine the reemployment earnings of workers reemployed by a former employer (known as recall) across different occupations. We first ask whether recalls represent a flexibilization strategy that mitigates adverse unemployment effects on workers’ earnings. And second, whether there are any differences in post-unemployment earnings of recalled workers across different occupations. The article contributes ...

Dynamic modeling of fertility and labor market participation of married and cohabiting women

We model jointly fertility and participation decisions of the women who live in couple using a dynamic model. We analyze, for the period going from 1994 to 2001, the labor supply and the fertility decision of married or cohabiting women in France, Spain, Germany, United-Kingdom and Denmark. We estimate a dynamic bivariate probit model with random effects using the ECHP (European Community household ...

Need for conclusive evidence that positive and negative reciprocity are unrelated

Poverty Changes for Single Parent Households -An Application of Dominance Relations-

Buffering income loss due to unemployment: Family and welfare state influences on income after job loss in the United States and western Germany

This article analyzes how the family and the welfare state influence household income trajectories after job loss in the United States and in western Germany. Drawing on panel data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), I study the income buffering effects of the family and the welfare state in the short an in the long run after job loss. I demonstrate ...

Job loss among rich and poor in the United States and Germany: Who loses more income?

This article compares household income losses after involuntary job loss between household income quintiles in the United States and Germany. I argue that income trajectories after job loss vary between social strata in country-specific ways because of differences in the labor market, the family and the welfare state. Using panel data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the German Socio-Economic ...

Couples’ Strategies after Job Loss in West Germany and the United States – The Added Worker Effect and Linked Life Courses

In couple households, income losses due to men’s displacements may be offset by an increase in women’s earnings, the so called “Added Worker Effect” (AWE). I argue that previous research largely neglected the variation of the AWE due to intra-household characteristics. Following the idea of “linked life courses”, intra-household processes have an influence on the AWE and that this influence is structured ...

The Impact of Losing Your Job: Unemployment and Influences from Market, Family, and State on Economic Well-Being in the US and Germany

Losing a job has always been understood as one of the most important causes of downward social mobility in modern societies. And it’s only gotten worse in recent years, as the weakening position of workers has made returning to the labor market even tougher. The Impact of Losing Your Job builds on findings from life course sociology to show clearly just what effects job loss has on income, family life, ...

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