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Child and adolescent refugees: Living situations among refugee families in Germany

Kinder und Jugendliche nach der Flucht: Lebenswelten von geflüchteten Familien in Deutschland

Sexual Orientation, Workplace Authority and Occupational Segregation: Evidence from Germany

An extensive body of research has documented the relationship between sexual orientation and income, but only a few studies have examined the effects of sexual orientation on workplace authority. This article investigates the probability of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people having (high-level) workplace authority and the effects of occupational gender segregation. It analyses four waves of data ...

The health advantage of volunteering is larger for older and less healthy volunteers in Europe: a mega-analysis

There is a vast literature on the health benefits associated with volunteering for volunteers. Such health advantages are likely to vary across groups of volunteers with different characteristics. The current paper aims to examine the health advantages of volunteering for European volunteers and explore heterogeneity in the association between volunteering and health. We carry out a mega-analysis on ...

Re-Partnering and Single mothers' Mental Health and Life Satisfaction Trajectories

Single mothers are a particularly disadvantaged group in terms of their mental health and life satisfaction. While it is plausible that re-partnering could compensate for these disadvantages by providing social, emotional, and financial resources, the evidence is inconclusive. Using annual panel data from Germany (1984-2020) and the United Kingdom (1991-2020), this study examines the life satisfaction ...

Erwerbsverläufe von Personen mit allgemeiner Hochschulreife: Auf den Abschluss kommt es an - Universität im Vergleich zu anderen Hochschulen

Junge Menschen mit allgemeiner Hochschulreife haben beim Erwerbseinstieg einen kurzzeitigen Startvorteil, wenn sie ihr Studium nicht an einer Universität, sondern an einer anderen Hochschule abschließen. Im weiteren Erwerbsverlauf müssen aber Personen mit einem anderen Hochschulabschluss im Vergleich zu denen mit Universitätsabschluss mit Einkommens- und Statusnachteilen rechnen. Nach Geschlecht betrachtet ...

Taxes, subsidies and gender gaps in hours and wages

Using microdata from 17 OECD countries, this paper documents a negative cross-country correlation between gender gaps in market hours and wages. We find that the cross-country differences in market hours are mostly accounted for by female market hours and the size of the sector that produces close substitutes to home production. We quantify the role played by taxes and family care subsidies on the ...

How do my earnings compare? Pay referents and just earnings

Comparisons are crucial in shaping evaluations of one’s own position. Following this notion, we investigated the role of historical, financial, partner, occupational, and regional pay referents in predicting the just gross hourly earnings in a representative sample of German workers. Looking at this broad range of pay referents, we find that higher reference earnings were generally associated with ...

Modernization Losers’ Revenge? Income Mobility and Support for Right- and Left-Wing Populist Parties in Germany

Against the backdrop of rising support for right- and left-wing populist parties in Europe, a long-standing argument has been that the more vulnerable strata of society are deprived by structural economic change as well as increasing social inequality and express their grievances by voting for radical and populist parties. Previous research has tested the thesis either based on cross-sectional data ...

The Long-Term Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Maternal Health and Subjective Well-Being

This paper studies the long-term impact of a paid parental leave reform in former East Germany in 1986 on maternal physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a maximum of twelve months. I use representative survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and a difference-in-differences design in a quasi-experimental ...