Jan P Heisig
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 910127 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jan P Heisig |
| NOMBRES | Jan P |
| APELLIDO | Heisig |
| FIRMA | HEISIG J P |
| AFILIACIONES | WZB Berlin Social Science Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8228-1907 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 401 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The democratic ideal under stress
To what extent do citizens support democratic rights and procedures in the face of major societal challenges? Drawing on a Dahlian ideal of democracy, we exploit the context of the Covid-19 pandemic to address this question with two preregistered survey experiments covering 9,000 respondents in six countries (Germany, Hungary, Japan, Poland, South Korea, and Spain). A conjoint experiment on preferences for pandemic policies reveals that citizens …
Genetic risks for depression and educational achievement in adolescence
Mental health problems, including depressive disorders, show strong and robust associations with labour market attainment and other stratification outcomes, but underlying processes remain unclear. We use a genetically informed design to examine associations between genetic liability to major depressive disorder and ninth-grade educational achievement. Using nearly 38,000 parent-child trios from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study linked …
Parental Health Shocks and Child Outcomes at Ages 17–25
Objective To investigate the impact of various parental health shocks, including parental death, on young adults' life satisfaction and mental health, personality traits, as well as NEET status (i.e., being neither in employment, education, nor training). Background Theoretical considerations and previous cross‐sectional studies suggest that parental health problems negatively affect child outcomes and may play an important role in the intergener…
Covid-19 infections in German long-term care facilities
We found evidence of individual, facility, and regional levels factors associated with COVID-19 infections among older adults in LTCFs. Future measures to combat infections, outbreaks, and pandemics should take an orchestrated multilevel approach
Future Caregiving Responsibilities, Employment Uncertainties, and Expected Childbearing Behavior
In societies experiencing declining birth rates, understanding factors that influence childbearing decisions is of interest. We used a factorial survey experiment to investigate how scenarios of future caregiving responsibilities toward aging parents and employment uncertainties shape the expected childbearing behavior of a fictitious couple. Respondents from the nationally representative German Socio-Economic Panel Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) ( …
Schools, childcare infrastructures, and mothers' time use and psychological well-being
Schools and childcare infrastructures are key in shaping parents' daily routines and well-being. Focusing on COVID-19 school disruptions, we examine how women's time use and psychological well-being changed as schools and childcare facilities closed and later reopened during the first wave of the pandemic in Denmark (April 1-June 26, 2020). Using data from a longitudinal opt-in online survey with Danish residents, we find that the reopening of sc…
What does successful university graduation signal to employers? A factorial survey experiment on sheepskin effects
Higher education graduates enjoy substantial labour market advantages over similar individuals who attended higher education but did not complete a degree. We use a hiring survey experiment with 335 German employers to explore possible explanations for these 'sheepskin effects', while addressing concerns about unobserved confounding in observational studies. Across 2680 hypothetical job applicants, employers were nearly 1.8 times more likely to i…
Imagining Life Beyond a Crisis
In this article we report evidence from a series of semi-structured interviews with a broad sample of people living in Denmark ( n = 21), about their perspectives on the future during the first months of the global Covid-19 pandemic. The thematic and discursive analyses, based on an abductive ontology, illustrate imaginings of the future along two vectors: individual to collective and descriptive to moral. On a descriptive and individual level, p…
Intersectional Inequalities in the Transition to Grandparenthood and Cognitive Functioning
This study highlights the importance of social determinants for understanding heterogeneities in older adults' level of cognitive functioning and its association with the transition to grandparenthood. Cumulative disadvantages negatively affect cognitive functioning, hence adopting an intersectional lens is useful to decompose inequalities and derive tailored interventions to promote equal healthy aging
Explaining the training disadvantage of less-educated workers
Less-educated workers have the lowest participation rates in job-related further training across the industrialized world, but the extent of their disadvantage varies. Using data on 28 high- and middle-income countries, we assess different explanations for less-educated workers' training disadvantage relative to intermediate-educated workers, with a focus on the role of labor market allocation (i.e. job tasks, other job features and firm characte…
No Evidence that Strict Educational Tracking Improves Student Performance through Classroom Homogeneity
In a recent contribution to this journal, Esser and Seuring (2020) draw on data from the National Educational Panel Study to attack the widespread view that tracking in lower secondary education exacerbates inequalities in student outcomes without improving average student performance. Exploiting variation in the strictness of tracking across 13 of the 16 German federal states (e. g., whether teacher recommendations are binding), Esser and Seurin…
Multilevel Analysis with Few Clusters
Quantitative comparative social scientists have long worried about the performance of multilevel models when the number of upper-level units is small. Adding to these concerns, an influential Monte Carlo study by Stegmueller (2013) suggests that standard maximum-likelihood (ML) methods yield biased point estimates and severely anti-conservative inference with few upper-level units. In this article, the authors seek to rectify this negative assess…
Explaining wage differentials by field of study among higher education graduates
Rejoinder to Daniel Stegmueller's Comments
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The Educational System and the Ethnic Skills Gap among the Working-Age Population
Research shows that children of immigrants, the 'second generation,' have comparatively high educational aspirations. This 'immigrant optimism' translates into ambitious educational choices, given the second generation's level of academic performance. Choice-driven (comprehensive) education systems, which allow the children of immigrants to follow their ambitions, are therefore regarded as facilitating their structural integration. The authors fo…
Cross-national differences in social background effects on educational attainment and achievement
We use PIAAC data to study the relationship between parental education and educational success among adults from 23 advanced economies. We consider educational success in terms of both educational attainment (formal qualifications) and educational achievement (competencies) and in both absolute and relative terms (i.e. as the individual’s rank in the distribution of educational success). Parental education effects are stronger for educational att…
Why You Should Always Include a Random Slope for the Lower-Level Variable Involved in a Cross-Level Interaction
Mixed-effects multilevel models are often used to investigate cross-level interactions, a specific type of context effect that may be understood as an upper-level variable moderating the association between a lower-level predictor and the outcome. We argue that multilevel models involving cross-level interactions should always include random slopes on the lower-level components of those interactions. Failure to do so will usually result in severe…
Lack of skills or formal qualifications? New evidence on cross-country differences in the labor market disadvantage of less-educated adults
Ethnic inequality in retirement income
Previous research unequivocally shows that immigrants are less successful in the labour market than the native-born population. However, little is known about whether ethnic inequality persists after retirement. We use data on 16 Western European countries from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC, 2004–2013) to provide the first comparative study of ethnic inequalities among the population aged 65 and older. We …
Adding Scars to Wrinkles? Long-run Effects of Late-Career Job Loss on Retirement Behavior and Personal Income
Despite a growing interest in the effects of job loss, research on its consequences for older workers and their economic situation in retirement remains scant. Using 30 years of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we examine the incidence and consequences of job loss at ages 50 to 64, following displaced workers for up to 10 years after displacement. We implement a difference-in-differences design and compare displaced workers with …
The Costs of Simplicity
Context effects, where a characteristic of an upper-level unit or cluster (e.g., a country) affects outcomes and relationships at a lower level (e.g., that of the individual), are a primary object of sociological inquiry. In recent years, sociologists have increasingly analyzed such effects using quantitative multilevel modeling. Our review of multilevel studies in leading sociology journals shows that most assume the effects of lower-level contr…
Secondary Education Systems and the General Skills of Less- and Intermediate-educated Adults
We investigate the impact of external differentiation and vocational orientation of (lower and upper) secondary education on country variation in the mean numeracy skills of, and skills gaps between, adults with low and intermediate formal qualifications. We use data on 30- to 44-year-olds in 18 countries from the 2011-12 round of the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies. We find that higher levels of external differenti…
Changing Welfare States
List of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations 1. The Adaptive Capacities of Welfare States 2. The New Politics of the Welfare State Revisited 3. Challenges to Twenty-First Century Social Policy Provision 4. Welfare Recalibration as Social Learning 5. Three Waves of Transformative Welfare State Change 6. Welfare Recalibration in Motion 7. Welfare Performance at a Glance 8. Escaping the Double Bind of Social Europe 9. Stress-Testing Welfare …
Getting more unequal
Verarmungsrisiken nach kritischen Lebensereignissen in Deutschland und den USA
Why You Should Always Include a Random Slope for the Lower-Level Variable Involved in a Cross-Level Interaction
Mixed-effects multilevel models are often used to investigate cross-level interactions, a specific type of context effect that may be understood as an upper-level variable moderating the association between a lower-level predictor and the outcome. We argue that multilevel models involving cross-level interactions should always include random slopes on the lower-level components of those interactions. Failure to do so will usually result in severe…
Multilevel Analysis with Few Clusters
Quantitative comparative social scientists have long worried about the performance of multilevel models when the number of upper-level units is small. Adding to these concerns, an influential Monte Carlo study by Stegmueller (2013) suggests that standard maximum-likelihood (ML) methods yield biased point estimates and severely anti-conservative inference with few upper-level units. In this article, the authors seek to rectify this negative assess…
Who Does More Housework
This article studies the relationship between household income and housework time across 33 countries. In most countries, low-income individuals do more housework than their high-income counterparts; the differences are even greater for women's domestic work time. The analysis shows that the difference between rich and poor women's housework time falls with economic development and rises with overall economic inequality. I use a cross-national re…
The Costs of Simplicity
Context effects, where a characteristic of an upper-level unit or cluster (e.g., a country) affects outcomes and relationships at a lower level (e.g., that of the individual), are a primary object of sociological inquiry. In recent years, sociologists have increasingly analyzed such effects using quantitative multilevel modeling. Our review of multilevel studies in leading sociology journals shows that most assume the effects of lower-level contr…
Secondary Education Systems and the General Skills of Less- and Intermediate-educated Adults
We investigate the impact of external differentiation and vocational orientation of (lower and upper) secondary education on country variation in the mean numeracy skills of, and skills gaps between, adults with low and intermediate formal qualifications. We use data on 30- to 44-year-olds in 18 countries from the 2011-12 round of the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies. We find that higher levels of external differenti…
Cross-national differences in social background effects on educational attainment and achievement
We use PIAAC data to study the relationship between parental education and educational success among adults from 23 advanced economies. We consider educational success in terms of both educational attainment (formal qualifications) and educational achievement (competencies) and in both absolute and relative terms (i.e. as the individual’s rank in the distribution of educational success). Parental education effects are stronger for educational att…
Getting more unequal
Lack of skills or formal qualifications? New evidence on cross-country differences in the labor market disadvantage of less-educated adults
Destabilisierung und Destandardisierung, aber für wen? Die Entwicklung der westdeutschen Arbeitsplatzmobilität seit 1984
Ethnic inequality in retirement income
Previous research unequivocally shows that immigrants are less successful in the labour market than the native-born population. However, little is known about whether ethnic inequality persists after retirement. We use data on 16 Western European countries from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC, 2004–2013) to provide the first comparative study of ethnic inequalities among the population aged 65 and older. We …
Verarmungsrisiken nach kritischen Lebensereignissen in Deutschland und den USA
Explaining wage differentials by field of study among higher education graduates
Explaining the training disadvantage of less-educated workers
Less-educated workers have the lowest participation rates in job-related further training across the industrialized world, but the extent of their disadvantage varies. Using data on 28 high- and middle-income countries, we assess different explanations for less-educated workers' training disadvantage relative to intermediate-educated workers, with a focus on the role of labor market allocation (i.e. job tasks, other job features and firm characte…
The Educational System and the Ethnic Skills Gap among the Working-Age Population
Research shows that children of immigrants, the 'second generation,' have comparatively high educational aspirations. This 'immigrant optimism' translates into ambitious educational choices, given the second generation's level of academic performance. Choice-driven (comprehensive) education systems, which allow the children of immigrants to follow their ambitions, are therefore regarded as facilitating their structural integration. The authors fo…
Adding Scars to Wrinkles? Long-run Effects of Late-Career Job Loss on Retirement Behavior and Personal Income
Despite a growing interest in the effects of job loss, research on its consequences for older workers and their economic situation in retirement remains scant. Using 30 years of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we examine the incidence and consequences of job loss at ages 50 to 64, following displaced workers for up to 10 years after displacement. We implement a difference-in-differences design and compare displaced workers with …
No Evidence that Strict Educational Tracking Improves Student Performance through Classroom Homogeneity
In a recent contribution to this journal, Esser and Seuring (2020) draw on data from the National Educational Panel Study to attack the widespread view that tracking in lower secondary education exacerbates inequalities in student outcomes without improving average student performance. Exploiting variation in the strictness of tracking across 13 of the 16 German federal states (e. g., whether teacher recommendations are binding), Esser and Seurin…
Destabilisierung und Destandardisierung, aber für wen? Die Entwicklung der westdeutschen Arbeitsplatzmobilität seit 1984
Destabilization and Destandardization
We use the Socio-Economic Panel to study how the job-shift patterns of West German workers changed between 1984 and 2008, analyzing trends separately by gender, education, labor force experience, firm size, and sector. We document a considerable reduction in the rate of within-firm job changes, especially for men in large companies and with limited labor force experience, which we interpret as evidence of a decline of internal labor markets and i…
Who Does More Housework
This article studies the relationship between household income and housework time across 33 countries. In most countries, low-income individuals do more housework than their high-income counterparts; the differences are even greater for women's domestic work time. The analysis shows that the difference between rich and poor women's housework time falls with economic development and rises with overall economic inequality. I use a cross-national re…
Verarmungsrisiken nach kritischen Lebensereignissen in Deutschland und den USA
Changing Welfare States
List of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations 1. The Adaptive Capacities of Welfare States 2. The New Politics of the Welfare State Revisited 3. Challenges to Twenty-First Century Social Policy Provision 4. Welfare Recalibration as Social Learning 5. Three Waves of Transformative Welfare State Change 6. Welfare Recalibration in Motion 7. Welfare Performance at a Glance 8. Escaping the Double Bind of Social Europe 9. Stress-Testing Welfare …
Getting more unequal
Secondary Education Systems and the General Skills of Less- and Intermediate-educated Adults
We investigate the impact of external differentiation and vocational orientation of (lower and upper) secondary education on country variation in the mean numeracy skills of, and skills gaps between, adults with low and intermediate formal qualifications. We use data on 30- to 44-year-olds in 18 countries from the 2011-12 round of the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies. We find that higher levels of external differenti…
Adding Scars to Wrinkles? Long-run Effects of Late-Career Job Loss on Retirement Behavior and Personal Income
Despite a growing interest in the effects of job loss, research on its consequences for older workers and their economic situation in retirement remains scant. Using 30 years of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we examine the incidence and consequences of job loss at ages 50 to 64, following displaced workers for up to 10 years after displacement. We implement a difference-in-differences design and compare displaced workers with …
The Costs of Simplicity
Context effects, where a characteristic of an upper-level unit or cluster (e.g., a country) affects outcomes and relationships at a lower level (e.g., that of the individual), are a primary object of sociological inquiry. In recent years, sociologists have increasingly analyzed such effects using quantitative multilevel modeling. Our review of multilevel studies in leading sociology journals shows that most assume the effects of lower-level contr…
Ethnic inequality in retirement income
Previous research unequivocally shows that immigrants are less successful in the labour market than the native-born population. However, little is known about whether ethnic inequality persists after retirement. We use data on 16 Western European countries from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC, 2004–2013) to provide the first comparative study of ethnic inequalities among the population aged 65 and older. We …
Cross-national differences in social background effects on educational attainment and achievement
We use PIAAC data to study the relationship between parental education and educational success among adults from 23 advanced economies. We consider educational success in terms of both educational attainment (formal qualifications) and educational achievement (competencies) and in both absolute and relative terms (i.e. as the individual’s rank in the distribution of educational success). Parental education effects are stronger for educational att…
Why You Should Always Include a Random Slope for the Lower-Level Variable Involved in a Cross-Level Interaction
Mixed-effects multilevel models are often used to investigate cross-level interactions, a specific type of context effect that may be understood as an upper-level variable moderating the association between a lower-level predictor and the outcome. We argue that multilevel models involving cross-level interactions should always include random slopes on the lower-level components of those interactions. Failure to do so will usually result in severe…
Lack of skills or formal qualifications? New evidence on cross-country differences in the labor market disadvantage of less-educated adults
Rejoinder to Daniel Stegmueller's Comments
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
The Educational System and the Ethnic Skills Gap among the Working-Age Population
Research shows that children of immigrants, the 'second generation,' have comparatively high educational aspirations. This 'immigrant optimism' translates into ambitious educational choices, given the second generation's level of academic performance. Choice-driven (comprehensive) education systems, which allow the children of immigrants to follow their ambitions, are therefore regarded as facilitating their structural integration. The authors fo…
Multilevel Analysis with Few Clusters
Quantitative comparative social scientists have long worried about the performance of multilevel models when the number of upper-level units is small. Adding to these concerns, an influential Monte Carlo study by Stegmueller (2013) suggests that standard maximum-likelihood (ML) methods yield biased point estimates and severely anti-conservative inference with few upper-level units. In this article, the authors seek to rectify this negative assess…
Explaining wage differentials by field of study among higher education graduates
No Evidence that Strict Educational Tracking Improves Student Performance through Classroom Homogeneity
In a recent contribution to this journal, Esser and Seuring (2020) draw on data from the National Educational Panel Study to attack the widespread view that tracking in lower secondary education exacerbates inequalities in student outcomes without improving average student performance. Exploiting variation in the strictness of tracking across 13 of the 16 German federal states (e. g., whether teacher recommendations are binding), Esser and Seurin…
Imagining Life Beyond a Crisis
In this article we report evidence from a series of semi-structured interviews with a broad sample of people living in Denmark ( n = 21), about their perspectives on the future during the first months of the global Covid-19 pandemic. The thematic and discursive analyses, based on an abductive ontology, illustrate imaginings of the future along two vectors: individual to collective and descriptive to moral. On a descriptive and individual level, p…
Intersectional Inequalities in the Transition to Grandparenthood and Cognitive Functioning
This study highlights the importance of social determinants for understanding heterogeneities in older adults' level of cognitive functioning and its association with the transition to grandparenthood. Cumulative disadvantages negatively affect cognitive functioning, hence adopting an intersectional lens is useful to decompose inequalities and derive tailored interventions to promote equal healthy aging
Explaining the training disadvantage of less-educated workers
Less-educated workers have the lowest participation rates in job-related further training across the industrialized world, but the extent of their disadvantage varies. Using data on 28 high- and middle-income countries, we assess different explanations for less-educated workers' training disadvantage relative to intermediate-educated workers, with a focus on the role of labor market allocation (i.e. job tasks, other job features and firm characte…
Future Caregiving Responsibilities, Employment Uncertainties, and Expected Childbearing Behavior
In societies experiencing declining birth rates, understanding factors that influence childbearing decisions is of interest. We used a factorial survey experiment to investigate how scenarios of future caregiving responsibilities toward aging parents and employment uncertainties shape the expected childbearing behavior of a fictitious couple. Respondents from the nationally representative German Socio-Economic Panel Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) ( …
Schools, childcare infrastructures, and mothers' time use and psychological well-being
Schools and childcare infrastructures are key in shaping parents' daily routines and well-being. Focusing on COVID-19 school disruptions, we examine how women's time use and psychological well-being changed as schools and childcare facilities closed and later reopened during the first wave of the pandemic in Denmark (April 1-June 26, 2020). Using data from a longitudinal opt-in online survey with Danish residents, we find that the reopening of sc…
What does successful university graduation signal to employers? A factorial survey experiment on sheepskin effects
Higher education graduates enjoy substantial labour market advantages over similar individuals who attended higher education but did not complete a degree. We use a hiring survey experiment with 335 German employers to explore possible explanations for these 'sheepskin effects', while addressing concerns about unobserved confounding in observational studies. Across 2680 hypothetical job applicants, employers were nearly 1.8 times more likely to i…
The democratic ideal under stress
To what extent do citizens support democratic rights and procedures in the face of major societal challenges? Drawing on a Dahlian ideal of democracy, we exploit the context of the Covid-19 pandemic to address this question with two preregistered survey experiments covering 9,000 respondents in six countries (Germany, Hungary, Japan, Poland, South Korea, and Spain). A conjoint experiment on preferences for pandemic policies reveals that citizens …
Economics (16 obras) · Demographic economics (13 obras) · Psychology (13 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (8 obras) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (8 obras) · Labour economics (8 obras) · Economic growth (6 obras) · Geography (6 obras) · Inequality (6 obras)