Education as a Positional Good? Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel.

Autor/in	Durst, Alessa K.
Titel	Education as a Positional Good? Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Bildung als Statussymbol? Befunde des deutschen Sozioökonomischen Panels.
Quelle	In: Social indicators research, 155 (2021) 2, S. 745-767 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300; 1573-0921
DOI	10.1007/s11205-021-02619-5
Schlagwörter	Bildungsniveau; Soziale Situation; Selbstbild; Zufriedenheit; Bildungsabschluss; Sozialer Status; Berufsprestige; Auswirkung
Abstract	"People care about their relative standing in society and therefore compare themselves to relevant others. Empirical findings suggest that there are concerns for relative standing for different goods and life domains such as income, cars, attractiveness, and supervisor's praise. Even education has been mentioned as having a (partially) positional character. However, there has been only small consideration of education as a positional good in the empirical literature so far. Based on the literature on positional concerns and the role of education on relative position, I use German panel data to investigate the relationship between education and life satisfaction beyond the effect education might have through other variables such as income, health, or occupational prestige. Additionally, I consider the possibility that the consumption of education is subject to positional concerns. I discover a positive relationship between education and life satisfaction, indicating that education has a consumption component. Moreover, the relationship depends on the distribution of particular levels of education, suggesting that education has a positional character." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2021/4