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Balancing parenthood and employment can be challenging and distressing, particularly for single mothers. At the same time, transitioning to employment can improve the financial situations of single mothers and provide them with access to social networks, which can have beneficial effects on their health and well-being. Currently, however, it is not well understood whether the overall impact of employment ...
In:
Social Science Research
114 (2023), 102906
| Mine Kühn, Christian Dudel, Martin Werding
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On average, temporary jobs are far less stable than permanent jobs. This higher instability could potentially lower workers’ incentives to relocate towards the workplace, thereby resulting in longer commutes. However, surprisingly few studies have investigated the link between temporary employment and commuting length. Building on the notion that individuals strive to optimize their utility when deciding ...
In:
Transportation
51 (2024), 1, 1467-1491
| Inga Laß, Thomas Skora, Heiko Rüger, Mark Wooden, Martin Bujard
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Why is the empirical evidence for birth-order effects on human psychology so inconsistent? In contrast to the influential view that competitive dynamics among siblings permanently shape a person's personality, we find evidence that these effects are limited to the family environment. We tested this context-specific learning hypothesis in the domain of risk taking, using two large survey datasets ...
In:
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
1531 (2024), 1, 60-68
| Tomás Lejarraga, Daniel D. Schnitzlein, Sarah C. Dahmann, Ralph Hertwig
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Do changes in religiosity beget changes in personality, or do changes in personality precede changes in religiosity? Existing evidence supports longitudinal associations between personality and religiosity at the between-person level, such that individual differences in personality predict subsequent individual differences in change in religiosity. However, no research to date has examined whether ...
In:
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
125 (2023), 2, 421-436
| Madeline R. Lenhausen, Ted Schwaba, Jochen E. Gebauer, Theresa M. Entringer, Wiebke Bleidorn
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Positive assortative mating may be a driver of wealth inequalities, but this relationship has not yet been examined. We investigate the association between assortative mating and wealth inequality within and between households drawing on data from the United States Survey of Income and Program Participation and measuring current, individual-level wealth for newly formed couples (N = 3936 couples). ...
In:
Social Forces
102 (2023), 2, 454-474
| Philipp M. Lersch, Reinhard Schunck
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The COVID-19 crisis had severe social and economic impact on the life of most citizens around the globe. Individuals living in single-parent households were particularly at risk, revealing detrimental labour market outcomes and assessments of future perspectives marked by worries. As it has not been investigated yet, in this paper we study, how their perception about the future and their outlook on ...
In:
Frontiers in Sociology
8 (2023),
| Bernd Liedl, Nina-Sophie Fritsch, Cristina Samper Mejia, Roland Verwiebe
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Immigrants bring contemporary demographic changes to the destination country through their contributions to diversity, and future population. In this study, we examine the partnership and fertility trajectories for individuals with Turkish, Russian, Kazak, Polish, and Southern European backgrounds born between 1970 and 1999. We adopt a life course perspective using event history techniques on retrospective ...
In:
International Migration Review
(online first) (2023),
| Chia Liu, Hill Kulu
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Lange Zeit galt der öffentliche Dienst als attraktiver Arbeitgeber für Menschen, die eine sichere und langfristige Beschäftigung mit klar definierten Karriereperspektiven anstrebten. Als Konsequenz der Reformen ab den 1990er Jahren wurde jedoch häufig diagnostiziert, dass der öffentliche Dienst an Attraktivität eingebüßt habe. Weitgehend unerforscht ist jedoch, ob die Beschäftigten im öffentlichen ...
In:
Zeitschrift für Sozialreform
69 (2023), 1, 1-30
| Paul Severin Löwe, Peter Valet
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This article presents the new linked employee-employer study of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP-LEE2), which offers new research opportunities for various academic fields. In particular, the study contains two waves of an employer survey for persons in dependent work that is also linkable to the SOEP, a large representative German annual household panel (SOEP-LEE2-Core). Moreover, SOEP-LEE2 includes ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
(online first) (2023),
| Wenzel Matiaske, Torben D. Schmidt, Christoph Halbmeier, Martina Maas, Doris Holtmann, Carsten Schröder, Tamara Böhm, Stefan Liebig, Alexander S. Kritikos
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This paper explores dynamics of family life events in Germany using discrete time event history analysis based on SOEP data. We find that higher educational attainment, better income level, and marriage emerge as salient protective factors mitigating the risk of mortality; better education also reduces the likelihood of first marriage whereas, lower educational attainment, protracted period, and presence ...
Frankfurt (Main):
Leibniz Institute for Financial Research (SAFE),
2023,
(SAFE Working Paper No. 399)
| Raimond Maurer, Sehrish Usman