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This article explores the nexus between risk tolerance and altruism. Using information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find a statistically and economically significant positive correlation between risk tolerance and proxies for altruism conditional on a long covariate vector.
In:
Applied Economics Letters
(online first) (2025), 1-5
| Tim Friehe, Christian Pfeifer
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Remote work has become integral to contemporary work life, necessitating a detailed examination of its effects on employees? sense of community and support ? key factors influencing knowledge sharing, team performance, and well-being at work. To this end, this study examines how the adjustments made to working arrangements and workplace communication during and after the COVID-19 pandemic have affected ...
In:
Behaviour & Information Technology
(2025), 1-14
| Kaisa Pekkala, Reetta Oksa, Atte Oksanen
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OBJECTIVE: Diabetes is associated with lower labour force participation. The proportion of people having diabetes is higher among people with a low socio-economic position. We aimed to describe socio-economic differences in the association between diabetes and labour force participation in Germany. METHODS: Based on repeated cross-sectional data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, the probability ...
In:
Ger Med Sci
23 (2025),
| Malwina M. Mackowiak, Ralph Brinks, Annika Hoyer, Ute Linnenkamp, Katharina Piedboeuf-Potyka, Markus Neuhäuser, Oliver Kuss, Thaddäus Tönnies
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Der Sozialbericht 2024 - Ein Datenreport für Deutschland (bisher: Datenreport. Ein Sozialbericht für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland) wird herausgegeben von der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung zusammen mit dem Statistischen Bundesamt, dem Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung und dem Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel des Deutschen ...
Bonn:
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb),
2025,
(Reihe Zeitbilder)
| Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) (Hrsg.) Statistisches Bundesamt (Hrsg.)
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Background Populations experiencing precarity face heightened mental health inequities, especially during crises. In this regard, it is established that socio-economic status (SES) and social isolation are critical factors influencing mental health outcomes, which interact syndemically. Understanding their interrelated mechanisms is crucial for developing effective public health strategies to support ...
In:
SSM - Population Health
31 (2025), 101822
| Victoria Touzel, Doreen Reifegerste, Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Louise Biddle
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The current work relies on G-SOEP to study the effects of import competition on fertility choices. This phenomenon has been addressed by using a single-observation dataset following the seminal paper of Autor et al. (2014). The results show a negative and significant effect on the choice of childbearing.Moreover, the trade exposure measure has been computed by aggregating the Lander and, in a second ...
2025,
| Giulia Ulivieri
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This article compares the promotion prospects of East Germans in leadership and elite positions. It starts from the observation that East Germans have lower chances of reaching leadership positions, although these have converged with those of West Germans in younger birth cohorts. Theoretical considerations on the distinction between leadership and elite positions, along with empirical findings based ...
In:
Zeitschrift für Soziologie
54 (2025), 2, 224-237
| Lars Vogel
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Social science research gives rise to what we call the ?refugee mobility puzzle?: While restrictions on the freedom of residence limit refugees? socio-economic integration, those who do not face such restrictions often move to areas with high unemployment that similarly hinder their labor market prospects. This study addresses a central element of this puzzle: What draws refugees to high unemployment ...
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
51 (2025), 5, 1075-1097
| Jonas Wiedner, Merlin Schaeffer
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Data quality is known to be compromised when respondents cognitively shortcut the survey response process. This satisficing behavior leads to inaccurate and unreliable responses that are hard to compensate after data collection. Thus, detecting and understanding surrvey satisficing is crucial for developing and implementing effective preventive measures in longitudinal data collection contexts. We ...
OSFPreprints:
2025,
| Julia Witton, Carina Cornesse
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DIW focus / 2025
The integration chances of refugees in their host country are critically shaped by the contextual conditions of the location to which they are assigned upon arrival. Several research groups have developed algorithmic tools to optimize refugee-location matching, with the overall aim of improving refugees’ integration outcomes. These tools are used in a highly sensitive context and thus their design, ...
2025| Christoph Kern, Jakob Kappenberger, Frederic Gerdon, Clara Strasser Ceballos, Daria Szafran, Florian Rupp, Ruben L. Bach