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In this article, we introduce a new, highly flexible model to analyze distributions with heaps and censoring points, which we call the generalized Craggit model. Distributions with heaps and censoring points can be found in many social science applications. For example, such distributions can be the result of sequential or multistep rating processes. Our model is a combination of a Craggit model and ...
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MethodsX
7 (2020), 100868
| Volker Lang, Martin Groß
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This study examines the association between parental separations during childhood and economic wealth of adult children. We provide a new test of this relationship and address two unresolved debates in the literature concerning (1) the pathways linking parental separation and adult children’s wealth and (2) the relevance of the timing of exposure. We use data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics ...
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Social Forces
99 (2021), 3, 1176-1208
| Philipp M. Lersch, Janeen Baxter
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This study develops and applies a framework for analyzing variability in individuals’ occupational prestige trajectories and changes in average variability between birth cohorts. It extends previous literature focused on typical patterns of intragenerational mobility over the life course to more fully examine intracohort differentiation. Analyses are based on rich life course data for men and women ...
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American Sociological Review
85 (2020), 6, 1084-1116
| Philipp M. Lersch, Wiebke Schulz, George Leckie
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Few studies have examined birth order effects on personality in countries that are not Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD). However, theories have generally suggested that interculturally universal family dynamics are the mechanism behind birth order effects, and prominent theories such as resource dilutionwould predict even stronger linear effects in poorer countries. Here, ...
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European Journal of Personality
35 (2021), 2, 234-248
| Laura J. Botzet, Julia M. Rohrer, Ruben Arslan
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This paper investigates the effects of offshoring on individual job satisfaction and perceived risk of job loss. The authors merge microdata from the German Socio-economic Panel dataset (SOEP) with indicators of insertion in global value chains at the industry level for the period 2000–2013. They test two hypotheses. First, theauthors investigate whether workers in industries with higher offshoring ...
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Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal
14 (2020), 23, 1-32
| Santiago Budría, Juliette Milgram Baleix
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This paper investigates the connection between job satisfaction and comparison pay (defined as a person’s rank within a reference group) with SOEP Data. Based on work values and social networks, we argue that the existing literature neglects heterogeneities in individual job satisfaction as well as wage trajectories along the career path. Thus, previous studies based on survey data likely overestimate ...
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European Sociological Review
37 (2021), 2, 238-252
| Andreas Eberl, Matthias Collischon
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Modernization theorists’ ‘rising tide hypothesis’ predicted the continuous spread of egalitarian gender ideologies across the globe. We revisit this assumption by studying reunified Germany, a country that did not follow a strict modernization pathway. The socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR) actively fostered female employment and systematically promoted egalitarian ideologies before reunification ...
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European Sociological Review
36 (2020), 5, 814–828
| Christian Ebner, Michael Kühhirt, Philipp M. Lersch
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This paper investigates the relationship between work time arrangements and personal well-being in married and cohabiting couples. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP), we study how the number of hours worked by the survey respondents and their partners influenced their own well-being. We also investigate possible transmission mechanisms between the two variables, namely income, ...
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Journal of Family Research
32 (2020), 2, 249-273
| Daniele Florean, Henriette Engelhardt-Woelfler
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We present first evidence how individual risk preferences shape entrepreneurial investment among the very wealthy using novel survey data from the top of the wealth distribution, which have been added to the 2019 German Socio-economic Panel Study. The data include private wealth balance sheets, in particular the value of own private business assets, and a standard measure of risk tolerance. We find ...
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Empirical Economics
66 (2024), 735-761
| Frank M. Fossen, Johannes König, Carsten Schröder
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The noncognitive skill of conscientiousness has been linked to favourable labour market and health outcomes. But how is conscientiousness affected by events that happen in childhood? We investigate the effects of negative parental selection and economic and social upheaval on conscientiousness in adulthood using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). Our identification strategy exploits the ...
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Applied Economics
52 (2020), 51, 5595-5612
| Andrew Gill, Kristin J. Kleinjans