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The Social Comparison Scale: Testing the Validity, Reliability, and Applicability of the IOWA-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM) on the German Population
Schneider, Simone; Schupp, Jürgen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people's opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological...
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Measuring the Selection of Pay Referents: A Methodological Analysis of the Questions on Pay Referents in the 2008 and 2009 SOEP Pretest Modules
Schneider, Simone; Schupp, Jürgen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Income comparisons are among the key mechanisms used to explain satisfaction and happiness, among other outcomes. Yet progress on the questions of who people use as social referents and whether differential selection patterns exist can only be made based on valid and reliable measures of pay...
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Gerechtigkeitsprobleme im Wohlfahrtsstaat: Besteuerung, wohlfahrtsstaatliche Transfers und die Gerechtigkeit des eigenen Erwerbseinkommens
Liebig, Stefan; Schupp, Jürgen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
need in modern welfare states, which is a subject of controversy in various disciplines. It answers the question of the … extent to which this policy problem of modern welfare states, which is an issue at the macrosocial level, also creates … respect to the fairness of earnings and what effect welfare state interventions have. An important result of the analyses is …
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Die Bewertung von Erwerbseinkommen: methodische und inhaltliche Analysen zu einer Vignettenstudie im Rahmen des SOEP-Pretest 2008
Sauer, Carsten; Auspurg, Katrin; Hinz, Thomas; Liebig, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
In the 2008 Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) Pretest, the factorial survey method was tested for the first time for use in the SOEP longitudinal study. In this paper, we describe the construction and application of the vignette module, which has its origins in the field of justice research and...
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