Objective and subjectively experienced financial inequalities in income and wealth and their consequences

客观和主观经历的收入和财富的金融不平等及其后果

• 批准号: 450775331
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Tobias Wolbring
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für Mikrosoziologie und Sozialpsychologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/450775331?language=en
• 关键词: Objective; subjectively; experienced; financial; inequalities

Social inequality is a major theme in the current societal and political discourse. In particular financial inequality – the gap between the rich and the poor – has drawn substantive interest in research and public debates alike. A host of research linked financial inequality to various social problems and negative outcomes. The dominant methodological approach in this research is to look at correlations between an objective measure of financial inequality, such as the Gini index, and outcomes across countries or regions. Despite abundant research theorizing and let alone actual data about the underlying mediators are rare. Relatedly it is unclear how objective levels of inequality that correlate with negative outcomes across societies are represented individually. After all, both from a social psychological and a sociological perspective it is usually not the objective situation that influences individuals but how the objective situation is subjectively represented. The proposed research aims to fill this gap by investigating a) whether and how subjective representations of inequality relate to the various mediators proposed in previous research (e.g. trust, status competition, perceived fairness), b) the causal role of subjective as well as objective levels of inequality. In addition to measuring the respective concepts we will go beyond correlational studies and experimentally manipulate individuals’ subjective representations of inequality. Moreover, we plan to experimentally vary objective financial inequality in economic games in order to assess its causal impact on assumed mediators. All studies allow to include various individual difference measures as potential moderators. Finally, we plan to link a large-scale survey for Germany – the Panel Study Labour Market and Social Security (PASS) – with rich administrative data on wages and employment histories and analyze the effects of objective and subjective inequality at the firm level as well as potential mediators on life satisfaction and health using longitudinal methods.

社会不平等是当前社会和政治讨论的一个主要主题。特别是金融不平等——富人和穷人之间的差距——引起了研究和公共辩论的实质性兴趣。大量研究将金融不平等与各种社会问题和负面结果联系起来。这项研究的主要方法是研究金融不平等的客观衡量标准（例如基尼指数）与不同国家或地区的结果之间的相关性。尽管有大量的研究理论，更不用说有关潜在中介因素的实际数据却很少。与此相关的是，目前还不清楚与整个社会的负面结果相关的不平等的客观水平是如何单独代表的。毕竟，无论是从社会心理学还是社会学的角度来看，影响个体的通常不是客观情境，而是客观情境的主观表征方式。拟议的研究旨在通过调查a）不平等的主观表征是否以及如何与先前研究中提出的各种调解因素（例如信任，地位竞争，感知公平）相关，b）主观和客观不平等水平的因果作用来填补这一空白。除了衡量各自的概念之外，我们还将超越相关研究，并通过实验操纵个人对不平等的主观表征。此外，我们计划通过实验改变经济博弈中的客观金融不平等，以评估其对假定调解者的因果影响。所有研究都允许将各种个体差异测量作为潜在的调节因素。最后，我们计划将德国的一项大规模调查——劳动力市场和社会保障小组研究（PASS）——与丰富的工资和就业历史行政数据联系起来，并利用纵向方法分析企业层面客观和主观不平等的影响以及对生活满意度和健康的潜在中介因素。