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In times of polycrisis, such as COVID-19, the Russian war against Ukraine, and inflation, fear and uncertainties challenge many people. While the impact of the pandemic on subjective well-being was thoroughly studied, the medium-term effects and impacts of more recent crises are still to be observed. Based on the first five waves of the bi-annual (and once tri-annual) large-scale panel FReDA, we show ...
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Social Indicators Research
180 (2025), 3,
| Lisa Kriechel, Martin Bujard, Ansgar Hudde
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As a result of the Russo-Ukrainian war, several million Ukrainians fled, more than one million to Germany. Until now, most studies on mental health of Ukrainian refugees are cross-sectional and there is a clear need to observe their well-being. We employed five waves of the IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP (later BiB/FReDA) Survey on Ukrainian Refugees in Germany analyzing affective balance, starting shortly ...
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Journal of Happiness Studies
27 (2025), 1, 13
| Lisa Kriechel, Nadja Milewski, Martin Bujard
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European countries are struggling with the largest inflows of asylum seekers since World War II, with ongoing debates about how best to promote asylum seeker integration. This article presents evidence from Germany which suggests asylum seekers feel more welcome when living in counties with more foreign-born residents. This relationship is stronger when asylum seekers and foreign-born residents have ...
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West European Politics
48 (2025), 1, 84–110
| Eroll Kuhn, Rahsaan Maxwell
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Commuting to work can negatively affect people's well-being. This paper analyzes the effect of commuting distance on subjective well-being for employees under different work time regimes. The analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for 2003–2021. The causal effect of commuting distance is identified by quasi-experimental changes for employees who experience firm ...
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Bulletin of Economic Research
(online first) (2025),
| Marco Kühne
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This paper investigates the size and direction of the interrelationships between two important aspects of integration of refugees in Austria: labour market integration and social integration. Labour market integration is captured in terms of being in paid employment, as compared to being unemployed or inactive, whereas social integration distinguishes between social networks and their ethnic composition ...
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European Journal of Population
41 (2025), 1, 6
| Michael Landesmann, Sandra M. Leitner
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The application of reduced VAT rates in the EU generally aims to alleviate the regressivity of consumption taxation. However, while these measures generate redistribution across income groups, they also do so within income groups, leading to arbitrary redistribution among households with similar incomes but different consumption patterns. Using the Analysis of Gini (ANOGI) decomposition, we evaluate ...
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Economics Letters
254 (2025), 112425
| Federica Lanterna, Mattia Ricci
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In many countries, temporary work (including fixed-term and casual employment contracts) is negatively associated with fertility. Yet, the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain poorly understood. This study investigates several mediating pathways (wages, financial satisfaction, short tenure, and subjective job insecurity) through which temporary work influences the transition to first birth ...
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Demography
62 (2025), 5, 1607–1633
| Inga Laß, Irma Mooi-Reci, Martin Bujard, Mark Wooden
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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
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The new German federal government coalition is planning a significant tax break for workers of retirement age: the active pension (Aktivrente). With the active pension, workers who have reached the statutory retirement age may earn up to 2,000 euros a month tax-free, a move that the government is hoping will motivate more pensioners to work longer to counteract the skilled worker shortage. Microsimulation ...
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DIW Weekly Report 25+26/2025
DIW Weekly Report 25+26/2025
| Stefan Bach, Hermann Buslei, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Joris Pieper
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Motivated by research on gender identity norms and the distribution of the woman’s share in a couple’s total labor income, we consider additive regression models for densities as responses with scalar covariates. To preserve nonnegativity and integration to one under vector space operations, we formulate the model for densities in a Bayes Hilbert space, which allows to not only consider continuous ...
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The Annals of Applied Statistics
19 (2025), 1, 680–700
| Eva-Maria Maier, Almond Stöcker, Bernd Fitzenberger, Sonja Greven