Using cultural and structural indicators to explain measurement noninvariance in gender role attitudes with multilevel structural equation modeling
Publication date: Available online 16 July 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Daniel Seddig, Vera LomazziAbstractThe current study explores the reasons for noninvariance of the measurements of gender role attitudes across countries. While previous studies have shown that noninvariance is a problem for comparative research and pointed out methods to alleviate the risks of drawing invalid conclusions, none has so far tried to explain why measurements of gender role attitudes are nonequivalent. Therefore, we use multilevel structural equation modeling to exploring measurement invariance and explain its absence. We ...
Source: Social Science Research - July 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
.Status and collaboration: The case of pro bono network inequalities in corporate law
Publication date: Available online 3 July 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Diego F. Leal, Anthony Paik, Steven A. BoutcherAbstractWe examine how status shapes intersectoral collaboration between large US corporate law firms and public interest legal organizations (PILOs). We draw from status theories to derive competing hypotheses about the status processes that generate organizational collaboration within this network. Supporting a status-signaling hypothesis, high-status law firms tend to collaborate with similarly high-status pro bono organizations. This gives rise to a highly unequal playing field where a ...
Source: Social Science Research - July 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A time-sensitive analysis of the work-crime relationship for young men
Publication date: Available online 12 July 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Angela Wang LeeAbstractTheories of the work-crime relationship suggest that employment reduces crime by offering routines, income, and supervision. However, selection into and out of jobs could also explain the negative association between work and crime: people may start working when they are already offending less and stop working when they are already offending more. To evaluate these possibilities, I model month-to-month, within-person changes in offending during the periods surrounding job transitions. Using data from the Pathways...
Source: Social Science Research - July 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Source: Social Science Research - July 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Trends in the demographic composition of poverty among working families in Germany and in Israel, 1991–2011
Publication date: Available online 4 July 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Asaf Levanon, Evgeny Saburov, Markus Gangl, Jan BrülleAbstractWhile the working poverty rate in advanced economies is about 7%, the demographic composition of the working poor varies considerably across countries. Providing an in-depth look at the demographic composition of working poverty, this paper builds on a typology of three major antecedents of poverty among workers – age, household structure, and minority status - and documents their changing association with the likelihood of poverty in Germany and Israel for a 21-year span ...
Source: Social Science Research - July 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Asymmetric issue evolution in the American gun rights debate
Publication date: Available online 4 July 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Mark A. ConleyAbstractIssue Evolution is a rare form of voter realignment where a single issue drives massive partisan shifts. These types of realignment occurred regarding race relations in post-war America, and regarding reproductive rights beginning in the mid-1980s. The current American gun rights debate meets the requisite conditions for issue evolution: longevity, salience, and ease of acquisition. Opposition to gun rights requires organization, attention, and political activity, whereas visible support for gun rights can be as si...
Source: Social Science Research - July 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The effect of informal caregiving on social capital investments
Publication date: Available online 5 July 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Andreas EberlAbstractSocial capital is a resource derived from a person's social network and is important for various outcomes. Social capital declines over time and requires investments to avoid further declines or to increase the stock. However, certain life events can negatively affect social capital. This paper analyzes how informal caregiving, defined as unpaid assistance to persons who cannot perform the usual activities of daily living without help, affects social capital investments. Drawing on the German Socio-Economic Panel (G...
Source: Social Science Research - July 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Unravelling the relationship between parental resources and disability pension in young adulthood
This article analyses how parental income and education are associated with offsprings' disability pension in young adulthood (19–27 years) among 1980–1985 birth cohorts using Finnish register data. The results of discrete-time event history analysis demonstrate that parental income and education have contrasting impacts. High parental income is found to decrease, and parental education to increase, the probability of offspring having disability pension, although mainly among offspring with compulsory education. Further, young adults with high parental resources are better off two years after their first disability pen...
Source: Social Science Research - July 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Barring progress: The influence of paternal incarceration on families’ neighborhood attainment
In this study, we use the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 3288) to investigate the relationships between paternal incarceration and the neighborhood outcomes of the children of incarcerated fathers and their mothers. Specifically, we examine whether children whose fathers are currently and/or have recently been incarcerated experience more residential instability, live in more socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods, and/or live in less socially cohesive neighborhoods. We find that paternal incarceration is associated with moving more frequently, greater socioeconomic neighborhood disadvantage, an...
Source: Social Science Research - July 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Explaining attitudes toward minority groups with human values in Germany - What is the direction of causality?
Publication date: Available online 3 July 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Marcus EisentrautAbstractThis paper examines the reciprocal relations between values and attitudes toward minorities over a period of fourteen months in 2015 and 2016. A representative sample of the adult population in Germany completed four waves of a panel study in which attitudes and values were each measured two times. Reciprocal relations over time between Schwartz's (1992) higher-order value of conservation and the value of universalism as well as attitudes toward four different minorities (Muslims, refugees, foreigners, Sinti/Rom...
Source: Social Science Research - July 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The social integration of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals: Exploring the role of the municipal context
Publication date: Available online 3 July 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Mirjam M. Fischer, Matthijs Kalmijn, Stephanie SteinmetzAbstractThis paper examines possible differences between lesbians, gay men and bisexuals (LGBs) compared to heterosexuals with respect to their integration into the residential neighbourhood. By means of a multi-level analysis, we examine if there is a gap in social integration between LGBs compared to heterosexuals, and if so, to what extent municipality characteristics can account for variations in this gap. Specifically, we test a cultural hypothesis (i.e., how liberal or conser...
Source: Social Science Research - July 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Status and collaboration: The case of pro bono network inequalities in corporate law
Publication date: Available online 3 July 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Diego F. Leal, Anthony Paik, Steven A. BoutcherAbstractWe examine how status shapes intersectoral collaboration between large US corporate law firms and public interest legal organizations (PILOs). We draw from status theories to derive competing hypotheses about the status processes that generate organizational collaboration within this network. Supporting a status-signaling hypothesis, high-status law firms tend to collaborate with similarly high-status pro bono organizations. This gives rise to a highly unequal playing field where a ...
Source: Social Science Research - July 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Information on biodiversity and environmental behaviors: A European study of individual and institutional drivers to adopt sustainable gardening practices
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Source: Social Science Research - July 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Marketization and anti-immigrant attitudes in cross-national perspective
This study builds upon an evolving research agenda by assessing the utility of three predictors of anti-immigrant attitudes: a “marketized mentality,” its aggregated level analogue – a “marketized anomic culture,” and an institutional imbalance characterized by the dominance of the economy over other social institutions. Drawing upon Institutional Anomie Theory (IAT), a macro-sociological theory originally advanced to explain crime, previous research has reported that persons who strongly embrace market-based values are prone to be prejudiced to legitimize the exclusion of groups that do not conform to the priori...
Source: Social Science Research - July 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Lack of skills or formal qualifications? New evidence on cross-country differences in the labor market disadvantage of less-educated adults
Publication date: Available online 2 July 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Jan Paul Heisig, Maurice Gesthuizen, Heike SolgaAbstractWe use PIAAC data on the literacy and numeracy skills of 49,366 25-to-54-year-olds in 27 countries to shed new light on cross-national variation in the labor market disadvantage of less-educated adults (i.e., those who have not completed upper secondary education). Our empirical analysis focuses on the occupational status gap between less-educated adults and those with a degree at the upper secondary level and yields three main findings. First, individual-level differences in liter...
Source: Social Science Research - July 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
