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The career mobility model suggests that overeducated workers are more prone to take up on-the-job training, to climb up the career ladder, or to leave to professions more suitable to their educational level. Our empirical analysis, using the German SOEP, confirms this theory for Germany. Comparing adequately qualified and overqualified workers in jobs that require the same level of formal qualification ...
In:
German Economic Review
21 (2020), 4, 493-514
| Christiane Roller, Christian Rulff, Michael M. Tamminga
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Current psychological theories on daily social interactions emphasize individual differences yet are underspecified regarding contextual factors. We aim to extend this research by examining how two context factors shape social interactions in daily life: how many relationships people maintain and how densely people live together. In Study 1, 307 German participants (M(age) = 39.44 years, SD(age) = ...
In:
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
127 (2024), 4, 920-935
| Yannick Roos, Michael D. Krämer, David Richter, Cornelia Wrzus
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Given the renewed scholarly interest in the crafts, this paper explores the nuances of crafts entrepreneurship through a personality-based approach. Our findings validate prior research on the general influence of broad and narrow personality traits on self-employment. However, our analysis also suggests that certain effects differ between crafts and non-crafts, most notably the role of the Big Five ...
In:
German Economic Review
(online first) (2025),
| Petrik Runst, Jörg Thomä
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This study quantifies the direct average net fiscal impact (ANFI) of migration in Germany, taking into account both indirect taxes and in-kind benefits such as health and education spending. Using a status quo approach with data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for 2018 and microsimulation techniques to impute both indirect taxes and in-kind benefits, our results show that migrants, especially ...
Essen:
Global Labor Organization (GLO),
2024,
(GLO Discussion Paper No. 1530)
| Hend Sallam, Michael Christl
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Objective: We analyse the employment patterns of childless first-generation migrants to Germany. In particular, we focus on the behaviour of female "marriage migrants". Marriage migrants are defined as individuals who married after their spouse had moved to Germany. Background: Demographic studies have illustrated that marriage migrants have particularly high childbirth rates upon arrival. ...
In:
Journal of Family Research
33 (2021), 2, 439-466
| Cristina Samper, Michaela Kreyenfeld
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We estimate the impact of technological innovation on regional labor market outcomes. Our identification strategy exploits pre-reunification complementarities in innovation between East and West Germany. We employ individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to analyze labor market out- comes. Individuals’ income in West German counties with pre-reunification complementarities increased ...
Portsmouth:
University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth Business School, Economics and Finance Subject Group,
2024,
(Working Papers in Economics & Finance 2024-07)
| Ali Sina Önder, Sascha Schweitzer, Olga Tcaci
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Increasing global policy interest in measuring and improving population wellbeing has prompted academic investigations into the dynamics of lifespan life satisfaction. Yet little research has assessed the complete adolescent age range, although it harbours developmental changes that could affect wellbeing far into adulthood. This study investigates how life satisfaction develops throughout the whole ...
In:
Royal Society Open Science
9 (2022), 8, 211808
| Amy Orben, Richard E. Lucas, Delia Fuhrmann, Rogier A. Kievit
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Exposure to childhood poverty increases the likelihood of adult poverty. However, past research offers conflicting accounts of cross-national variation in the strength of the intergenerational persistence of poverty and the mechanisms through which it is channeled. This study investigates differences in intergenerational poverty in the United States (U.S.), Australia, Denmark, Germany, and United Kingdom ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2023,
(IZA DP No. 16194)
| Zachary Parolin, Rafael Pintro Schmitt, Gøsta Esping Andersen, Peter Fallesen
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Climate change is one of the central challenges for contemporary societies. It is widely discussed as triggering “climate anxiety,” and as dampening the desire to reproduce, particularly among young people. Conversely, parenthood could affect people’s attitudes and behaviors toward the environment. Empirically, however, little is known about this potentially reciprocal relationship due to the lack ...
Rostock:
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research,
2023,
(MPIDR Working paper WP-2023-023)
| Steffen Peters, Erich Striessnig, Maria Rita Testa, Alessandra Trimarchi, Natalie Nitsche
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Previous research has documented that sexual orientation relates to educational attainment, and that it might do so differently for men and women. In this paper, we investigate to what extent sexual orientation moderates the relationship between social origin and educational attainment and whether the educational premium among LGB people might be concentrated among individuals from lower socioeconomic ...
In:
European Societies
27 (2025), 1, 144–170
| David Kasprowski, Diederik Boertien