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This paper documents the process of linking the records of all bachelor’s and master’s graduates of the Nuremberg Institute of Technology between 2010 and 2020 with administrative labor market biography data from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). The success rate of the linkage was 98%, which is well above the average of previous linkage projects with IAB data. We only find negligible differences ...
SSRN:
2024,
| Manfred Antoni, Timon K. Drewes, Hans-Dieter Gerner, Robert Jäckle, Stefan Schwarz
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In surveys, attempts are increasingly made to link survey data with register, geospatial and/or social media data on an individual level. Usually, this requires informed consent to the data linkage. Respondents must agree to the linking of their survey answers to other datasets, and researchers are obligated to inform them sufficiently. In contrast to other countries, few attempts at obtaining informed ...
In:
Survey Methods: Insights from the Field
(online first) (2023),
| Johann Bacher, Johannes Kepler
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The German government is planning to reform Hartz IV by replacing it with a simpler and more accessible system known as Bürgergeld. Using a random-based survey of eight job centers in North Rhine-Westphalia, this Weekly Report considers the perspectives of the long-term unemployed: What do they think about the reforms? How do they perceive their situation? What are their daily lives like? The findings ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
29/30/31/2022 (2022), 183-192
| Fabian Beckmann, Rolf G. Heinze, Jürgen Schupp
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The availability of social media data is growing and represents a new data source for economic research. This paper presents a detailed study on the use of data from a career-oriented social networking platform for measuring employee flows and employer networks. The employment data are exported from user profiles and linked to the Mannheim Enterprise Panel (MUP). The linked employer-employee (LEE) ...
Mannheim:
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW),
2023,
(ZEW Discussion Paper No. 23-041)
| Patrick Breithaupt, Hanna Hottenrott, Christian Rammer, Konstatin Römer
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This study investigates the impact of child-related absence from work on the income of working mothers and fathers, addressing a significant research gap in sociology and labour economics. While previous research has established that gender and parenthood significantly influence income levels, the consequences of caring for a sick child-a common and unpredictable responsibility-remain inadequately ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin; SOEP,
2025,
(SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 1219)
| Ayhan Adams, Katrin Golsch
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How do students’ earnings expectations differ by being the first in their family to attend university (FiF) and how do they affect field of study choice? We leverage unique survey and administrative data to document sizable gaps in expected earnings between FiF and non-FiF students. Our data can explain two-thirds of this gap, with the largest share attributable to field of study choice. We show that ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin; SOEP,
2025,
(SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 1221)
| Katharina Adler, Fabian Kosse, Markus Nagler, Johannes Rincke
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This paper investigates whether individuals’ relative (status or positional) concerns are associated with their transitions from paid employment or inactivity to self-employment. The conjecture is that stress and anxiety arising from socio-economic comparisons may be motivating factors for individuals to establish their own businesses. We examine this using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) dataset, ...
In:
Small Business Economics
(online first) (2025),
| Alpaslan Akay, Levent Yilmaz
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Overeducated workers are more productive and have higher wages in comparison to their adequately educated coworkers in the same jobs. However, they have lower wages than their similarly educated peers who are in correctly matched jobs. This study examines the hypotheses that overeducated workers sort into performance pay jobs as an adjustment mechanism and that performance pay enhances their wages. ...
In:
Education Economics
(online first) (2025), 1-21
| Mehrzad B. Baktash
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Transitioning into young adulthood often brings about significant changes in personality traits. However, the reasons behind these personality changes remain unclear. This study integrates insights from research on personality development and the psychology of social class to study how the construction of one’s social class identity in young adulthood might trigger changes in personality traits (i.e., ...
In:
Social Psychological and Personality Science
(online first) (2025),
| Anatolia Batruch, Manon A. van Scheppingen
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Earnings are often top-coded (right-censored) in administrative registers. The censoring threshold in the case of Germany is the limit value for social security contributions, leading to a substantial fraction of censoring: For example, about 12 % of male workers in West Germany are affected, rising to above 30 % for highly educated prime-aged workers. This missing right tail of the earnings distribution ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
(online first) (2025),
| Mattis Beckmannshagen, Johannes König, Isabella Retter, Christian Schluter, Carsten Schröder, Yogam Tchokni