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Social class origin is closely linked to individuals' labor market outcomes. This study examines the class ceiling—the earnings disadvantage that those from lower-class origins experience within higher-class occupations. We propose that job task segregation, i.e., the non-random selection into different task profiles within granular occupations, contributes to the class ceiling. We study these dynamics ...
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Social Science Research
139 (2026), 103406, 17 S.
| Wiebke Schulz, Philipp M. Lersch
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This paper explores the effect of COVID-19 infection rates on individuals’ risk preferences using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), a large population-wide ran¬dom sample. Exploiting county-level variation in a difference-in-differences design, we find that risk preferences remain unchanged: the effect is precisely estimated at 2.1% of a standard deviation (95% CI: [−0.4%, +4.6%]), ruling out economically ...
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Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2026-07-11]
| Daniel Graeber, Ulrich Schmidt, Carsten Schröder, Johannes Seebauer
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In 2001, Germany abolished public occupational disability insurance (ODI)—the second tier of its public DI system—for cohorts born after 1960. Using administrative data, we first document that, in the long run, overall DI inflows declined by roughly one-third. Second, using representative survey data, we document at best modest ODI insurance take-up responses in the private individual, risk-rated market, ...
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The Review of Economics and Statistics
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2026-05-14]
| Yaming Cao, Björn Fischer-Weckemann, Johannes Geyer, Nicolas Ziebarth
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In this paper, I examine behavioral responses to inheritance and gift taxes using administrative microdata from Brazil, in a context where taxpayers knew three months in advance that tax rates would increase. I document four findings. First, gifts surge by about 300% just before the reform takes effect. Second, estate filings fall by 30%, largely because small estates become exempt. Third, taxable ...
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Journal of Public Economics
261 (2026), 105720, 13 S.
| Gedeão Locks
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This paper examines the gaps in Germany’s data infrastructure for responding to crises, as revealed during COVID-19, and argues that linking the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with administrative health records would strengthen the country’s ability to generate equity-sensitive evidence during future health-related crises. Drawing on evidence from the RKI-SOEP study, we illustrate the added value of combining ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
(2026), im Ersch.[online first: 2026-07-13]
| Alexander Lepe, Ingo Kolodziej, Sabine Zinn
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This study investigates the R&D behavior of the world’s top R&D investors during the Great Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 crisis. Focusing on the resilience of corporate R&D activities, we explore two dimensions: stability and adaptability. Using two large datasets on the world’s leading R&D-investing companies covering the periods 2004–2010 and 2015–2021, thus including both crises, our analysis ...
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Journal of Industrial and Business Economics
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2026-06-19]
| Heike Belitz, Anna Lejpras
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This article examines origin- and gender-based disparities in labourmarket integration of refugees in Germany, comparing Ukrainian refugees with refugees from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Using longitudinal data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Survey and the IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP Ukrainian Refugee Survey, we trace labour-force participation (LFP) and employment rates during the first three ...
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2026-05-10]
| Jörg Hartmann, Yuliya Kosyakova
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Objectives Cumulative advantage is a central concept in life course research. Prior research has primarily focused on one outcome domain, overlooking the possibility that cumulative advantage could extend into other domains–what we refer to as diffusion of cumulative advantage. We build on and extend cumulative inequality theory to conceptualize diffusion and apply it to wealth and health, two domains ...
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The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
(2026), im Ersch. [online first:2026-06-27]
| Anastasia Lam, Philipp M. Lersch
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An influential survey by Joshua Knobe (2003) indicates that the cognitive process ascribing intentionality to an agent is mediated by the perceived moral worth of the action. To assess the external validity of the finding and to obtain more precise estimates of effect sizes, the present study replicates this canonical experiment with a large scale random sample of the German population (N = 2,295). ...
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Philosophical Psychology
(2026), im Ersch.[online first: 2026-06-03]
| Christoph Schmidt-Petri, Daniel Labarca-Pinto, Carsten Schröder
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BACKGROUND Parenting leave policies shape how caregiving and paid work can be reconciled around the time of childbirth. They have important implications for fertility, employment, and gender equality. Still, there are limited quantitative cross-country data capturing longterm policy changes that impact how long parents can temporarily be away from work to care for their children, and how leave can ...
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Demographic Research
543 (2026, Art. 31, S. 987-1008
| Sonja Spitzer, Adèle Lemoine, Zhanxiong Song, Claudia Reiter, Angela Greulich, Agneta Herlitz, Alžběta Bártová, Elisa Brini, Zuzana Dančíková, Dovilė Galdauskaitė, Libertad González, Evi Hatzivarnava-Kazassi, Helena Honkaniemi, Sol Pía Juárez, Rannveig Kaldager Hart, Ida Lykke Kristiansen, Anna Kurowska, Katre Pall, Barbara Pertold-Gebicka, Tatjana Rakar, Tapio Räsänen, Konstantina Rentzou, Pedro Romero Balsas, Eva-Maria Schmidt, Laurène Thil, Dora Tuda, Lili Vargha, Daniele Vignoli, Sander Wagner, Katharina Wrohlich