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The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 resulted in a severe economic downturn and a stark temporary decline in fertility in East Germany. But did it also affect the fertility of future generations? In this paper, I investigate early motherhood – a marker of lifetime disadvantage – of those born in the years immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Using data from the German Socioeconomic ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
244 (2024), 1-2, 113-129
| Kristin J. Kleinjans
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Despite the abundance of empirical research on life satisfaction, disparities remain regarding its variation. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this study analyses to what extent biases in the design and implementation of life satisfaction surveys influenced the variation in life satisfaction. The study employs various methodological approaches, including distributional analysis, ...
2023,
(Research Square Preprint)
| Johannes Klement
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In this article, we introduce a methodology to measure employment precarity in cross-country research based on individual career data from national panel surveys. First, we propose a measure of employment precarity, which is comparable across countries differing in their institutions, legal regulations and practices concerning the organization of labor relations. To address the comparability issues ...
In:
Survey Research Methods
17 (2023), 3, 353-393
| Katarzyna Kopycka, Anna Kiersztyn, Zbigniew Sawiński, Stefan Bieńkowski, Viktoriia Sovpenchuk
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In recent years, refugee women’s experiences have received considerable attention in the academic discourse on immigrant labor market integration. Taking a dynamic perspective, we investigate gender differences in the labor market integration of refugees who arrived in Germany between 2013 and 2019. We examine refugees' trajectories in the early post-arrival period and explore a number of conditions ...
In:
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
87 (2023), 100842
| Yuliya Kosyakova, Zerrin Salikutluk, Jörg Hartmann
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Eine Erhebung, die das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP) während der Frühphase der SARS-CoV-2-Pandemie im Frühjahr 2020 durchführte, ergab, dass die wahrgenommenen Risiken einer SARS-CoV-2-Infektion eine massive Überschätzung der tatsächlichen Risiken darstellten. Dabei machten insgesamt 5783 Teilnehmer Angaben dazu (2,3% fehlende Werte), für wie wahrscheinlich sie es hielten, dass SARS-CoV‑2 bei ihnen ...
In:
Herz
48 (2023), 3, 239-242
| Bernd Kowall, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Fabian Standl, Andreas Stang
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This article studies wage mobility during the early career in West Germany and the United States. We examine the extent of intragenerational wage fluctuations, whether they structure into upward mobility trends or remain volatile variations, and whether mobility aligns with classical stratification dimensions (gender, social origin, and education). We highlight three main findings. First, intragenerational ...
In:
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
87 (2023), 100843
| Raffaele Grotti, Giampiero Passaretta
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In this paper we analyse the association between maternal well-being and child development at different ages. We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) which captures maternal life satisfaction and numerous cognitive and non-cognitive child development outcomes. We identify a strong positive association between mothers’ life satisfaction and their children’s development when these are ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2023,
(SOEPpapers 1189)
| Nabanita Datta Gupta, Jonas Jessen, C. Katharina Spieß
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We empirically analyze the heterogeneous welfare effects of unemployment insurance and social assistance. We estimate a structural life-cycle model of singles' and married couples' labor supply and savings decisions. The model includes heterogeneity by age, education, wealth, sex and household composition. In aggregate, social assistance dominates unemployment insurance; however, the opposite ...
In:
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
16 (2024), 2, 127-181
| Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse
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Decompositions make it possible to investigate whether gaps between groups in certain outcomes would remain if groups had comparable characteristics. In practice, however, such a counterfactual comparability is difficult to establish in the presence of lacking common support, functional-form misspecification, and insufficient sample size. In this article, the authors show how decompositions can be ...
In:
Sociological Methodology
53 (2023), 2, 344-365
| Maik Hamjediers, Maximilian Sprengholz
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Die Beteiligung der Erwerbspersonen ist für den ökologischen und digitalen Wandel entscheidend, denn ohne ihre Arbeitsleistung und ihr Know-how kann die doppelte Transformation nicht gelingen. Gleichzeitig entstehen im Wandel aber auch Ängste und Sorgen. Sie können dazu führen, dass sich die nötigen Anpassungsprozesse verzögern oder sogar verhindert werden. Denkbar ist aber auch, dass die Furcht vor ...
In:
IW-Trends
50 (2023), 3, 3-26
| Andrea Hammermann, Roschan P. Monsef