Middle class' perceptions and evaluations of institutional incomplementarities in the employment system, labour market, social policy and firm-internal pay schemes

在此，我请求延长一个即将到期的关于中产阶级主观地位不安全感的项目。它的主要假设是，中产阶级对劳动力市场、社会政策和公司内部薪酬计划的制度变化对其地位造成的客观威胁反应特别敏感。为了验证这一理论，我们对3.262名劳动力进行了计算机辅助网络调查。作为其中的一部分，我们开发了三种创新的测量工具：衡量主观地位不安全感的指数，间接模拟行为后果的情景，以及衡量关于再互补的想法的准实验小插图设计。我们最重要的结果是，与上层和下层阶级相比，中产阶级成员对准实验模拟的地位威胁的反应具有更高的地位不安全感。这些初步发现支持了中产阶级特别敏感的论点。与此同时，我们发现了一些线索，即受访者认为，在失业的情况下，开放的劳动力市场和高社会保障的结合在功能上等同于制度现状。在延伸阶段，我们希望加深对客观地位威胁、主观地位不安全感和社会分层之间关系的分析。我们特别想测试的是，随着时间的推移，地位的不安全感是如何波动或持续的，以及制度和家庭特定背景下的变化是如何影响这一点的。为此，我们希望使用来自后续调查的数据，其中来自第一波的73%的受访者参与了调查。在最初的项目设计中没有想到这第二波。这是由于方法上的原因，我们将调查方式从电话调查改为在线调查的结果。这项后续调查为我们提供了一个主要的机会来研究就业环境的变化对不安全感的影响。此外，我们想分析成功应对过去的地位威胁事件是否有助于个体对地位不安全感的恢复力的发展。最后，我们想要确定，在劳动力市场和社会政策领域，关于再互补的想法以何种方式可以追溯到某些正义观念，以及将个人纳入社会网络是否可以减少甚至增加地位不安全感。

Hereby I request an extension of an expiring project about the subjective status insecurity of the middle class. Its leading assumption is that the middle class reacts especially sensitive to objective threats to their status that are caused by institutional changes in the labour market, in social policy, and in firm-internal pay schemes. To test this thesis, we have conducted a computer-assisted web survey among 3.262 individuals that are part of the labour force. As part of this, we have developed three innovative measurement tools: an index for measuring subjective status insecurity, scenarios with indirect modelling of behavioural consequences, and a quasi-experimental vignette design to measure ideas about re-complementarisation. Our most important result is that members of the middle class react to the quasi-experimentally modelled threat to status with higher status insecurity than members of the upper and lower classes. These preliminary findings support the thesis of a particular sensitivity of the middle class. At the same time, we find clues that the respondents see the combination of an open labour market and high social security in the case of unemployment as functionally equivalent to the institutional status quo.During the extension phase, we want to deepen the analyses of the connection between an objective threat to status, subjective status insecurity, and social stratification. We particularly want to test how volatile or persistent status insecurity is over time and how changes in the institutional and household-specific context affect this. For this, we want to use data from a follow-up survey in which 73 percent of the respondents from the first wave participated. This second wave was not intended in the original project design. It is the result of a change in the mode of our survey from a telephone to an online survey due to methodological reasons. This follow-up survey offers us the major opportunity to examine the effect of changes in the employment context on feelings of insecurity.In addition, we want to analyse if the successful coping with a status-threatening event in the past can contribute to the development of resilience towards status insecurity in individuals. Finally, we want to determine in what way ideas about re-complementarisation in the field of labour market and social policy can be traced back to certain ideas of justice, and if the inclusion of an individual in social networks can reduce or even increase status insecurity.