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Unemployment is a major challenge to individuals' development. An important personal resource to ameliorate the negative impact of unemployment may be perceived control, a general-purpose belief system. Little is known, however, about how perceived control itself changes with the experience of unemployment and what the antecedents, correlates, and consequences of such change in perceived control ...
In:
Journal of Vocational Behavior
93 (2016), April 2016, 103-116
| Frank J. Infurna, Denis Gerstorf, Nilam Ram, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner, Jutta Heckhausen
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We review research on the development of perceived control and its importance for a wide range of outcomes across the lifespan. To do so, this chapter is divided into four sections: (1) what is perceived control; (2) why is it important to study perceived control; (3) how does perceived control change across the lifespan; and (4) what leads to the development of perceived control. We conclude that ...
In:
Jule Specht ,
Personality Development Across the Lifespan
London: Elsevier
243-256
| Frank J. Infurna, Charles J. Infurna
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We attempted to replicate findings that “most people are resilient” following three events: spousal loss, divorce, and unemployment. We applied growth mixture models to the same longitudinal data set that has previously been used to assert that resilience is ubiquitous. When using identical model specifications as in prior studies, we found that resilient trajectories were most common, but the number ...
In:
Perspectives on Psychological Science
11 (2016), 2, 175-194
| Frank J. Infurna, Suniya S. Luthar
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To examine whether disability has an age-differential effect on life satisfaction across the adult life span and factors that promote maintenance of life satisfaction.We applied multilevel models to 4,372 (Mage = 60, SD = 14; 47% women) individuals from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study who experienced disability over the course of the study.Disability resulted in substantial and sustained declines ...
In:
The Journals of Gerontology: Series B
73 (2016), 5, 755-766
| Frank J Infurna, Maja Wiest
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Losing a spouse is among the most devastating events that may occur in people's lives. We use longitudinal data from 1,224 participants in the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) to examine (a) how life satisfaction changes with the experience of spousal loss; (b) whether socio-demographic factors and social and health resources moderate spousal loss-related changes in life satisfaction; ...
In:
Ageing and Society
37 (2017), 5, 899-934
| Frank J. Infurna, Maja Wiest, Denis Gerstorf, Nilam Ram, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner, Jutta Heckhausen
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This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile regression models by employing a regression of the (recentered) influence function (RIF) of the gross hourly wage on a rich set of explanatory variables. This approach ...
In:
Journal of Economic Inequality
19 (2021), 4, 825-854
| Kai Ingwersen, Stephan L. Thomsen
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This paper examines the effects of substantial changes in paid parental leave on child development and socio-economic development gaps. We exploit a German reform from 2007 that both expanded paid leave in the first year and removed paid leave in the second year following childbirth. Higher-income households benefited relatively more from the reform than low-income households. We use administrative ...
In:
Labour Economics
61 (2019), 101754
| Mathias Huebener, Daniel Kühnle, C. Katharina Spieß
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Policy-makers face a trade-off between the provision of higher levels of schooling and earlier labour market entries. A fundamental education reform in Germany tackles this trade-off by reducing high school by one year while leaving the total instructional time unchanged. Employing administrative data on all high school graduates in 2002-2013 in Germany, we exploit both temporal and regional variation ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2015,
(DIW Discussion Papers No. 1450)
| Mathias Huebener, Jan Marcus
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On January 1, 2017, the parental leave benefit will be celebrating its tenth anniversary. Although its implementation was fervidly debated, it has become a widely accepted family policy measure. Its impact on parental labor supply, the division oflabor between parents, fertility, and indicators that reflect the well-being of parents and children have been examined from a variety of perspectives. A ...
In:
DIW Economic Bulletin
6 (2016), 49, 571-578
| Mathias Huebener, Kai-Uwe Müller, C. Katharina Spieß, Katharina Wrohlich
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This paper provides evidence that low private contributions to highly subsidised day care constrain mothers from working longer hours. We study the effects of a reform that abolished day care fees in Germany on parental labour supply. The reform removed private contributions to highly subsidised day care in the year before children enter primary school. We exploit the staggered reform across states ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
180 (2020), December 2020, 510-543
| Mathias Huebener, Astrid Pape, C. Katharina Spieß