This essay takes the intrusion of the term 'risk management' into the social policy discourse as a 'moral opportunity' to reconsider the balance between solidarity and individual responsibility. The argument is developed in three stages: first, the psychology of intuitive beliefs and choices...

Zunehmend ist von Risikomanagement die Rede. Für die Befürworter ist der Be-griff ein Hilfsmittel, um Managementtechniken aus der Betriebs- oder Finanzwirtschaft auch in die Sozial- und Arbeitsmarktpolitik zu übertragen; für die Kritiker ist der Begriff ein trojanisches Pferd, um neoliberale...

Statistische Daten sind im allgemeinen - gemessen an idealtypischen Erhebungsbedingungen - nicht fehlerfrei, insbesondere können sie durch die Art, wie sie erhoben werden, beeinflusst werden ("Erhebungsartefakte"). Interviewereffekte spielen in diesem Zusammenhang in der Literatur eine...

In the past there have been many empirical studies dealing with the behavior of respondents in interview situations. Most of these refer to data from surveys and describe an interview situation where respondents and interviewer meet only once. The advantage of this study is the possibility of...

Many validation studies deal with item-nonresponse and measurement error in earnings data. In this paper we explore motives of respondents for the failure to reveal earnings using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). GSOEP collects socio-economic information of private households in the...

To the best of our knowledge, most of the few methodological studies which analyze the impact of faked interviews on survey results are based on "artificial fakes" generated by project students in a "laboratory environment". In contrast, panel data provide a unique opportunity to identify data...