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Desperate Housewives and Happy Working Mothers: Are Parent-Couples with Equal Income More Satisfied throughout Parenthood? A Dyadic Longitudinal Study

Are parent-couples with equal income more satisfied as their children grow up, than those who prioritize the father’s career (specialize)? For the first time, 384 German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study couples were categorized into life-course coupled earnings types, by tracing how earnings were divided within couples between the ages of 1 to 15 of their youngest child. Multivariate, multilevel analysis ...

Auswirkungen des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns: Schriftlichen Anhörung der Mindestlohnkommission

Studie: Homosexuelle Menschen erkranken häufiger an Depressionen

Diskriminierung macht krank. Eine Studie des DIW zeigt, inwiefern Schwule, Lesben sowie trans- und bisexuelle Menschen betroffen sind.

Subjektives Wohlbefinden und Sorgen (Kap. 12.1)

‘Grey zones’ within dependent employment: formal and informal forms of on-call work in Germany

This article aims to take stock of the various manifestations of on-call work in Germany. It is shown that formal on-call work is, by international standards, relatively strictly regulated in Germany, not least as the result of a 2019 reform of the law. Similar to other countries, however, other informal variants are used that lie outside the scope of the re-regulation or ‘normalisation’ of formal ...

How Threatening Are Transformations of Happiness Scales to Subjective Wellbeing Research?

Two recent papers argue that many results based on ordinal reports of happiness can be reversed with suitable monotonic increasing transformations of the associated happiness scale (Bond and Lang 2019; Schröder and Yitzhaki 2017). If true, empirical research utilizing such reports is in trouble. Against this background, we make four main contributions. First, we show that reversals are fundamentally ...

A typological approach of perceived resource fluctuations after job transitions in a representative panel study

Job and career transitions are unique experiences that vary within and between persons. One possible reason for the differential effects of transitions is that they can involve resource gains, losses, conservation, or a combination thereof. This study investigates perceived resource fluctuation patterns as possible reasons for differential health outcomes in a representative German panel study (n = ...

Auswirkungen der Coronapandemie nach Einkommens- und Bevölkerungsschichtung – eine Momentaufnahme (Kap. 14.4)

The Editor vs. The Algorithm: Returns to Data and Externalities in Online News

We run a field experiment to quantify the economic returns to data and informational ex-ternalities associated with algorithmic recommendation relative to human curation in the context of online news. Our results show that personalized recommendation can outperform human curation in terms of user engagement, though this crucially depends on the amount of personal data. Limited individual data or breaking ...

Essays on the Political Economy of Immigration

The thesis presents three essays dealing with political, social and economic aspects of international migration. In the second chapter (coauthored work with Prof. Lewis Davis, Union College, NY), we revisit the well-established salient relationship between rising immigrant population shares (IPS) and the success of far-right parties in the European countries. In particular, special attention is given ...