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For a long-time, public sector employees have been described as “pathologically” risk averse. Research suggests that a high level of risk aversion in the public sector workforce may lead to undesirable consequences such as hindering reforms and innovations. It is therefore important to understand the factors and mechanisms that could change the level of risk aversion in the public sector. Nevertheless, ...
2022,
| Po Chiu Ivan Lee
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This paper investigates the persistence and determinants of second job holding in Germany, especially marginal second jobs, following a legislative change allowing extensive dispensation of marginal second jobs from taxes and social security contributions. I document an upward trend in second job holding driven in particular by women. Moreover I find strong evidence for the persistence of second job ...
Lüneburg:
Leuphana University Lüneburg, Institute of Economics,
2022,
(University of Lüneburg Working Paper Series in Economics No. 416)
| Philipp Lentge
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Prior literature finds stability in personal culture, such as attitudes and values, in individuals’ life courses using short-running panel data. This work has concluded that lasting change in personal culture is rare after formative early years. This conclusion conflicts with a growing body of evidence for changes in personal culture after significant life course transitions, drawing on long-running ...
In:
American Sociological Review
88 (2023), 2, 220-251
| Philipp M. Lersch
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In this study, we argue that parents’ class position may influence the type and timing of their offspring's investments in financial assets. These investments may facilitate net worth accumulation beyond direct transfers, contributing to the intergenerational reproduction of social positions. We test these expectations using retrospective life history and prospective panel data for 14 countries ...
In:
Acta Sociologica
66 (2023), 2, 210–230
| Philipp M Lersch, Olaf Groh-Samberg
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The assumption that economic resources are equally shared within households has been found to be untenable for income but is still often upheld for wealth. In this introduction to the special issue “Wealth in Couples”, we argue that within-household inequality in wealth is a pertinent and under-researched area that is ripe for development. To this end, we outline the relevance of wealth for demographic ...
In:
European Journal of Population
38 (2022), 4, 623-641
| Philipp M. Lersch, Emanuela Struffolino, Agnese Vitali
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Die meisten kennen sie gut, die Zeitfresser im Alltag: Manche von ihnen rächen sich auf lange Sicht.
In:
Frankfurter Allgemeine online, 2023-02-28
(2023),
| Ina Lockhart
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Self-continuity, the sense that one’s personal past, present, and future selves are meaningfully connected, is unique to human beings. Self-continuity varies across individuals with higher levels conveying benefits for mental health and well-being, physical health and health-related behaviors, as well as financial planning and moral choices (for a review see Hershfield, 2019). From a developmental ...
In:
Innovation in Aging
4 (2020), Suppl 1, 390-391
| Corinna Loeckenhoff, Denis Gerstorf
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On their journeys to and through Europe, refugees and other migrants are commonly subjected to violence in its multifaceted forms. We argue that these “journeys of violence” are a direct effect of a fundamentally uneven and asymmetric global mobility regime that creates frictions and fragmentations in the European border space and beyond. Our argument is based on: (1) a state-of-the-art literature ...
In:
Comparative Population Studies
47 (2022), 211-232
| Rahel Lorenz, Benjamin Etzold
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Existing research on housing cost burden focuses on its evolution over time. Few empirical studies, meanwhile, investigate changes in housing cost burden as a function of age. Literature is also scarce on how people's housing cost burden is affected by the act of retiring. In order to fill this research gap, we examine how the burden of housing costs tends to change after retirement and how the ...
In:
Ageing & Society
45 (2025), 1, 1–30
| Alberto Lozano Alcántara, Laura Romeu Gordo, Heribert Engstler, Claudia Vogel
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Der Begriff „Einsamkeit“ ist in der deutschen Alltagssprache unscharf definiert und wird für unterschiedliche Phänomene verwendet. Für eine wissenschaftliche und politische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema ist es daher notwendig, diesen Begriff klar zu definieren und von anderen, verwandten Konzepten abzugrenzen. Diese Expertise gibt zunächst einen Überblick über die in der heutigen sozialwissenschaftlichen ...
Frankfurt/Main:
ISS Kompetenznetzwerk Einsamkeit,
2022,
(KNE Expertise 1)
| Maike Luhmann