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Based on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Socio-economic Panel, we study the class mobility of three concurrent generations in the U.S. and Germany. We find that, in both countries, the grandfathers’ class is directly associated with their grandchildren's social position. We propose three possible mechanisms which could explain the observed multigenerational mobility patterns. ...
In:
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
35 (2014), March 2014, 35-52
| Florian R. Hertel, Olaf Groh-Samberg
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This paper quantifies the impact of the Hartz reforms on matching efficiency, using monthly SOEP gross worker flows (1983-2009). We show that, until the early 2000s, close to 60% of changes in the unemployment rate are due to changes in the inflow rate (job separation). On the contrary, since the implementation of the reforms in the mid-2000s, the importance of the outflow rate (job finding) has been ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2013,
(SOEPpapers 532)
| Matthias S. Hertweck, Oliver Sigrist
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This article decomposes fluctuations in the German unemployment rate into changes in inflows (job separation) and outflows (job finding). For this purpose, we construct and examine monthly labour market transition rates from the West German sample of the SOEP (and the CPS) for the period 1984–2009. We explicitly take account of the low level of labour market transition rates in Germany. Our article ...
In:
Oxford Economic Papers - New Series
67 (2015), 4, 1078-1095
| Matthias S. Hertweck, Oliver Sigrist
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In the last 20 years, German policy makers have reformed the pension system and the labor market with the aim of prolonging working life. As a consequence, older workers’ employment rate and average retirement age rose. In addition to the actual behavior of today’s retiree cohorts, the reforms also influence the expected retirement age of future pensioners, the development of which will be investigated ...
In:
Societies
8 (2018), 3, 50
| Moritz Hess
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The article analyzes the question of whether career politicians differ systematically from the general population in terms of their attitudes toward risk. A written survey of members of the 17th German Bundestag in late 2011 identified their risk attitudes, and the survey data was set in relation to respondents to the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the survey year 2009 (2002 through 2012). ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2013,
(SOEPpapers 546)
| Moritz Heß, Christian von Scheve, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
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Political representatives frequently make decisions with far-reaching implications for citizens and societies. Most of these decisions are choices in situations in which the probabilities of gains and losses are hard to estimate. Although decision-making is crucial to politics, existing research has hardly ever addressed the political representation of traits that notably influence decision-making. ...
In:
Palgrave Communications
4 (2018), Article No. 60,
| Moritz Heß, Christian von Scheve, Jürgen Schupp, Aiko Wagner, Gert G. Wagner
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Free-riding potentially limits the effectiveness of profit sharing in motivating workers. While reciprocity can mitigate this problem, it need not be uniformly productive. We show that the probability of receiving profit sharing takes an inverse U-shape as detailed individual survey measures of reciprocity increase. This is consistent with moderate but not extreme reciprocity stimulating productivity. ...
In:
Journal of Labor Research
35 (2014), 2, 205-225
| Thomas Cornelissen, John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn
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CEO compensation that is perceived to be excessive regularly causes agitation in the population. Using German data, we show that perceiving CEO pay to be unfair has economic repercussions in terms of lower work morale.
In:
Economics Letters
110 (2011), 1, 45-48
| Thomas Cornelißen, Oliver Himmler, Tobias Koenig
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It is standardly assumed that individuals react to perceived unfairness or norm violations in precisely the same area or relationship where the original offense has occurred. However, grievances over being exposed to injustice may have even broader consequences and also spill over to other contexts, causing non-compliant behavior there. We present evidence that such “fairness spillovers” can incur ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
90 (2013), June 2013, 164-180
| Thomas Cornelißen, Oliver Himmler, Tobias Koenig
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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) we study whether being individually affected by downward wage rigidity has an effect on layoffs, quits and intra-firm mobility. Within a structural empirical model we estimate the individual extent of wage rigidity. This is expressed by the wage sweep-up, which measures by how much individual wage growth increases through the effect of downward ...
In:
Empirical Economics
34 (2008), 2, 205-230
| Thomas Cornelißen, Olaf Hübler