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The aims of lifelong learning: Age-related effects of training on wages and job security

This study analyses the effects of training participation on wages and perceived job security for employees of different ages. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, results indicate that only younger workers benefit from training by an increase in wages, whereas older employees’ worries about losing their job are reduced. This observation can also be explained by the fact that goals of ...

Self-rated health and sickness-related absence: The modifying role of civic participation

In this study, we examined civic participation as an effect modifier between self-rated health and absence from work. Building on the theoretical framework of social exchange, we use German data to test a conceptual model relating self-rated health to sickness-related absence, as well as the interaction between self-rated health and civic participation. We used the 1996 wave of the German Socio-Economic ...

Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty: Using Long-Term Panel Data

We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and panel data. We use long-term panel data from Germany and apply di erent regression models, based on household covariates and previous-year equivalence income, to classify a household as vulnerable or not. Predictive performance is assessed using the Receiver Operating Characteristics ...

Number of Close Friends and Their Links to Life Satisfaction Over the Great Recession in Germany

The present study tested if worries about the economy was associated with life satisfaction and if this association was mediated by individuals’ self-reported number of close friends. A longitudinal mediation model was employed across three time points with data from the beginning of the recession in 2008, the midst of the recession in 2011, and the recovery phase in 2013. A diverse sample of German ...

Owner-Occupied Housing in Germany: The Impact of Housing Policy on Household Tenure and Relocation Choice (Dissertation)

Application of Hazard Models to Estimation of Unemployment Duration in Germany and Poland

An Attempt to Classify Satisfaction Changes: Methodological and Content Aspects of a Longitudinal Problem

Germany After Unification: Still a Twofold Society

Income Distribution in East Germany in the First Five Years after the Fall of the Wall

Living Standards in Retirement: Accepted International Comparisons are Misleading

Accepted international assessments of living standards in retirement rely on comparing social pension incomes. These assessments conclude that European countries with contributory pension schemes provide retirees with higher living standards than liberal Anglo-American regimes in which many citizens rely on flat rate old age pensions. Comparisons based solely on pension incomes are potentially misleading ...