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This paper investigates the impact of severe health shocks on labor supply decisions and domestic production within German households. We draw from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), focusing on individuals aged 25 to 55 at the time of their first observed health shock. After the health shock, we find that affected individuals suffer a persistent loss in annual gross labor income of around 4,000 ...
In:
Journal of Health Economics
101 (2025), 102992
| Giovanni Di Meo, Onur Eryilmaz
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Women's earnings inequality persists, despite policy efforts to reduce discrimination and gender bias. Gender gaps in earnings, however, are a function of hours worked as well as wage rates, and reflect gendered short and long work hour patterns. Within households, how partners exchange time is a crucial driver of hours worked yet this is rarely incorporated into analysis of gender earning gaps. ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
179 (2025), 2, 1073–1100
| Tinh Doan, Liana Leach, Lyndall Strazdins
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In den meisten deutschen Bundesländern ist aufgrund fehlender Daten unklar, ob und ab wann Fehltage in der Schule ein ernstzunehmendes Problem mit Blick auf die Leistungen von Schüler*innen sind. In England hingegen sind genauere Analysen möglich – Fehltage von Schüler*innen werden dort als ein großes Problem betrachtet. Diese Studie vergleicht erstens die Entwicklung der Fehltage in England und Berlin ...
In:
DIW Wochenbericht
34 (2025), 511-518
| Jascha Dräger, Markus Klein, Edward Sosu
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Fehr, Mollerstrom and Perez-Truglia (2022) studied individual preferences for policies addressing global inequality by conducting a two-year, face-to-face survey experiment on a representative sample of Germans from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). They found that Germans systematically underestimated their true place in the global income distribution; that these misperceptions were persistent; and ...
Institute for Replication (I4R),
2025,
(I4R Discussion Paper Series No. 228)
| Erwan Dujeancourt, Francesca Foliano, Olle Hammar
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This thesis studies the determinants of interethnic relationships between non-migrants and migrants. Theoretically, the thesis builds on the idea that three mechanisms might influence the patterns of relationship formation: opportunities, preferences, and third parties. The introductory part of the thesis reviews the literature in the field. Building on this review, I develop a research agenda. Three ...
2025,
| Philipp Eisnecker
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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 ...
In:
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 ...
In:
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 ...
In:
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 ...
In:
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 ...
In:
European Journal of Population
41 (2025), 1, 6
| Michael Landesmann, Sandra M. Leitner