At least half of all employees in Germany described their wages in all three survey years under consideration here - 2005, 2007, and 2009 - as just. Still, major changes occurred over this period in how people perceived their earnings. Data from the Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) Study show that...

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...

This paper describes the implementation of a factorial survey within the SOEP-Pretest of 2008 and investigates (1) respondents' comments about the vignettes, (2) interviewers' assessments of respondents comprehension and willingness to answer, and (3) response behavior regarding response time,...

Die Erwartungen der Menschen nach dem Mauerfall vor 25 Jahren und der Wiedervereinigung 1990 waren enorm. Die Regierung versprach, innerhalb weniger Jahre ,,blühende Landschaften" zu schaffen. Die Euphorie der Wiedervereinigung kam nicht nur durch den Wunsch zustande, endlich wieder ein Land...

Rund 25 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall sind wesentlich mehr Menschen in Ostdeutschland mit ihrem Einkommen unzufrieden als in Westdeutschland. Im Jahr 2013 bewerten rund 44 Prozent der Beschäftigten in Ostdeutschland ihr Einkommen als ungerecht, in Westdeutschland war es etwa jeder dritte...

Almost twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, far more eastern Germans are unhappy with their income than western Germans. In 2013, around 44 percent of employed eastern Germans rated their earnings as unjust compared with approximately one-third in western Germany. Although the...

People's expectations after the fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago and of reunification in 1990 were huge. The government promised to create "flourishing landscapes" within a few years. The euphoria of reunification came not only through the desire to finally become one country and one nation...

The rise in female labor market participation and the growth of "atypical" employment arrangements has, over the last few decades, brought about a steadily decreasingpercentage of households in which the man is the sole breadwinner, and a rising percentage of dual-earner households. Against this...

The article discusses the conflict of goals between fair compensation for performance and equitable support based on 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...

Seit dem Gerichtsurteil zu den sachlich ungerechtfertigten Prämienzahlungen an das ehemalige Top-Management der Mannesmann AG werden Fragen der Entlohnungsgerechtigkeit in der Öffentlichkeit breit diskutiert. Hintergrund sind stark gestiegene Spitzengehälter von Managern in einer Zeit...