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Previous research has shown that social inequalities in the transition to higher education are a persistent phenomenon in Germany. Additionally, studies indicate that graduates from vocational schools are less likely to enter higher education, compared to their peers who graduated from general schools. However, research is scarce about how social background effects may differ for graduates from vocational ...
In:
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
17 (2025), 1, 7
| David Nika
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Free speech is essential for informed decision-making, government efficacy, and fostering innovation in liberal societies. But what promotes or hinders freedom of speech values? Exploiting the natural experiment of German separation and later reunification, we show that living under communism has had lasting effects on free speech opinions, and the convergence process has been slow. East Germans are ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
227 (2024),
| Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova
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Wealth inequality results from stratified access to accumulation opportunities, relating to differences in income, financial behavior, and transfers. Yet, it remains unclear whether these wealth accumulation channels differ in their perceived relevance for women and men along the wealth distribution. A deeper understanding of such perceptions is crucial for explaining attitudes toward inequality, shaping ...
OSF Preprints:
2025,
| Theresa Nutz, Nicole Kapelle, Daria Tisch
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In light of persistent regional inequalities in adaptive outcomes such as health, well-being, and related personality traits, psychological research is increasingly adopting a historical perspective to understand the deeper roots of these patterns. In this study, we examine the role of ancient cultures, specifically the impact of Roman civilization around two thousand years ago, on the macro-psychological ...
In:
Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology
8 (2025), 100214
| Martin Obschonka, Fabian Wahl, Michael Fritsch, Michael Wyrwich, P. Jason Rentfrow, Jeff Potter, Samuel D. Gosling
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Interviewers have long been identified as a source of error in face-to-face surveys. However, previous studies have typically focused on a single source of interviewer error and single-country cross-sectional surveys. We extend this literature by investigating interviewer errors from multiple dimensions in the Oesterreichische Nationalbank Euro Survey, a cross-national survey conducted annually in ...
In:
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society
(online first) (2025),
| Lukas Olbrich, Elisabeth Beckmann, Joseph W Sakshaug
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Background: Many refugees arrived in Germany in 2015 and 2016. At the same time, anti-refugee attitudes among Germans increased. This indicates an association between immigration and attitudes. Now, ten years later, renewed public concern about immigration - while not many immigrate to Germany - highlights the need to identify factors that shape attitudes towards refugees. Aim: Thus, I tested whether ...
Berlin:
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP),
2025,
(SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 1231)
| Alyna Paul
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Differences in educational trajectories between social backgrounds can only be partially explained by differences in cognitive abilities and are therefore considered educational inequalities. In this study, multiple constructs involved in the prediction of educational success were investigated in a joint approach to specify their unique contributions and to identify mechanisms associated with how socioeconomic ...
In:
Intelligence
113 (2025), 101970
| Lena Paulus, Frank M. Spinath, Elisabeth Hahn
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The energy crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine exposed the heightened vulnerability of low-income households to rising heating costs, particularly those in energy inefficient buildings. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this study examines the distributional impact of heating costs across income deciles and evaluates the effectiveness of policy interventions. We find ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2025,
(DIW Discussion Papers No. 2119)
| Sophie M. Behr, Merve Kucuk, Maximilian Longmuir, Karsten Neuhoff
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Die Armutsforschung arbeitet mit verschiedenen Messkonzepten und Datenquellen. Jonas Beste beleuchtet die am häufigsten verwendeten Ansätze auf Grundlage des Panels 'Arbeitsmarkt und soziale Sicherung' im Vergleich zu anderen Paneldaten. Er benennt Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede bei der Messung von Armut und beschreibt die verschiedenen Erscheinungsformen von Armut. Damit eröffnet er Einblick ...
2017,
| Jonas Beste
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Commuting is a fundamental aspect of employees’ daily routines and continues to evolve with technological advancements. Yet the effects of commuting on subjective well-being remain insufficiently investigated in the context of expanding digital connectivity. This paper examines the causal effects of changes in commuting distance on subjective well-being in an era of widespread mobile internet availability. ...
München:
CESifo,
2025,
(CESifo Working Paper No. 11784)
| Katharina Bettig, Valentin Lindlacher