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The widely established health differences between people with greater economic resources and those with fewer resources can be attributed to both social causation (material factors affecting health) and health selection (health affecting material wealth). Each of these pathways may have different intensities at different ages, because the sensitivity of health to a lack of material wealth and the degree ...
In:
European Journal of Ageing
15 (2018), 4, 379-391
| Rasmus Hoffmann, Hannes Kröger, Eduwin Pakpahan
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Differences in mortality between groups with different socioeconomic positions (SEP) are well-established, but the relative contribution of different SEP measures is unclear. This study compares the correlation between three SEP dimensions and mortality, and investigates differences between gender and age groups (35–59 vs. 60–84). We use an 11% random sample with an 80% oversample of deaths from the ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
145 (2019), 1, 349-365
| Rasmus Hoffmann, Hannes Kröger, Lasse Tarkiainen, Pekka Martikainen
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This study examines the accumulation of personal wealth of husbands and wives and investigates the development of within-couple wealth inequalities over time in marriage. Going beyond previous research that mostly studied the marriage wealth premium using household-level wealth data and that conceptualized marriage as an instantaneous transition with uniform consequences over time, we argue that entry ...
In:
European Sociological Review
36 (2020), 4, 580-593
| Nicole Kapelle, Philipp M. Lersch
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We provide a new identification strategy to analyse the implications of religious affiliation on unhealthful behaviour by focusing on the link between religiousness and smoking. Our quasi-experimental research design exploits the exogenous dramatic fall in religious affiliation that took place in East Germany after the post-war separation. Our conditional difference-in-differences estimates on data ...
In:
SSM - Population Health
8 (2019), 100412
| Luca Nunziata, Veronica Toffolutti
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Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this article examines whether gender wage differentials occur due to differences in prototypical personality traits of women and men and provides the first application of a gender wage gap decomposition on the basis of a correlated random effects model. Main results show that agreeableness and openness are the most important personality ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1078)
| Sina Otten
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The spread of computer technology in West German industry during the 1980s and 1990s dramatically changed the demand for skilled and unskilled work in manufacturing. As a result the knowledge used in production was redefined and reformers pushed for radical reform in vocational and general education. In these decades a corporate agreement across trade unions, associations of employers and state bureaucracy ...
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German History
37 (2019), 3, 359-373
| Lutz Raphael
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Objectives The current study aimed at investigating the longitudinal association between obesity and sickness absence in women and men in Germany.Methods Data were derived from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) which is a nationally representative, longitudinal study of private households in Germany. We draw on data from 2002 to 2012. Information on self-rated body mass index has been collected ...
In:
BMJ Open
8 (2018), 6, e019839
| Katrin Christiane Reber, Hans-Helmut König, André Hajek
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This paper investigates how working from home affects employees’ work effort. Employees who have the possibility to work from home have a high autonomy in scheduling and organizing their work and are therefore assumed to have a higher intrinsic motivation. Thus, we expect working from home to positively influence work effort of employees. We introduce a theoretical model that analyzes whether intrinsic ...
In:
Schmalenbach Business Review
70 (2018), 1, 25-55
| Kira Rupietta, Michael Beckmann
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While general ethnic disadvantages are well documented, much less is known about coinciding disadvantages of ethnic origin and gender. Based on theoretical arguments of human capital theory, sociocultural approaches, labour market segmentation theory, and discrimination mechanisms, we investigate whether immigrant women experience more difficulties on the labour market than immigrant men, non-immigrant ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1072)
| Zerrin Salikutluk, Johannes Giesecke, Martin Kroh
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The subject of emigration from affluent countries, such as Germany, raises the question of who are more likely to leave their highly-industrialized countries known for high living standards, stable political scene and prosperous economy. Using the theory of postmaterialism (Inglehart, 1997) this paper explores emigration intentions of German nationals taking into account country’s specific socio-economic ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1066)
| Elena Samarsky