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Refereed essays Web of Science
This study investigates how atypical employment (i.e., part-time, temporary work, mini-jobs) affects workers' ability to accumulate financial assets and exposes them to asset poverty in Germany. Asset poverty occurs when household financial resources (e.g., bank deposits and stock equity) are insufficient to live at the income poverty line for three months. Previously, studies on labour market processes ...
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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
85 (2023), 100803, 11 S.
| Claudia Colombarolli, Philipp M. Lersch
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Positive assortative mating may be a driver of wealth inequalities, but this relationship has not yet been examined. We investigate the association between assortative mating and wealth inequality within and between households drawing on data from the United States Survey of Income and Program Participation and measuring current, individual-level wealth for newly formed couples (N = 3936 couples). ...
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Social Forces
102 (2023), 2, S. 454–474
| Philipp M. Lersch, Reinhard Schunck
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Employment among mothers has been rising in recent decades, although mothers of young children often work fewer hours than other women do. Parallel to this trend, approval of maternal employment has increased, albeit not evenly across groups. However, differences in attitudes remain unexplored despite their importance for better understanding mothers’ labour market behaviour. Meanwhile, the employment ...
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Comparative Population Studies
48 (2023), S. 339-368
| Ludovica Gambaro, C. Katharina Spiess, Katharina Wrohlich, Elena Ziege
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Do changes in religiosity beget changes in personality, or do changes in personality precede changes in religiosity? Existing evidence supports longitudinal associations between personality and religiosity at the between-person level, such that individual differences in personality predict subsequent individual differences in change in religiosity. However, no research to date has examined whether ...
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
125 (2023), 2, S. 421-436
| Madeline R. Lenhausen, Ted Schwaba, Jochen E. Gebauer, Theresa Entringer, Wiebke Bleidorn
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Refereed essays Web of Science
To phase out fossil fuels, energy systems must shift to renewable electricity as the main source of primary energy. In this paper, we analyze how electrification can support the integration of fluctuating renewables, like wind and PV, and mitigate the need for storage and thermal backup plants. Using a cost-minimizing model for system planning, we find substantial benefits of electricity demand in ...
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Energy
278 (2023), 127832, 12 S.
| Leonard Göke, Jens Weibezahn, Mario Kendziorski
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The rise of digitisation will cause a major upheaval in the manufacturing industries, bringing changes to traditional industrial location patterns as well. In order to understand the direction these structural changes are taking, this paper analyses the start-up activity in the industrial sector. The frontrunners are metropolitan regions and in particular major cities such as Berlin or Munich. Furthermore, ...
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Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal
16 (2023), 4, S. 385-395
| Martin Gornig
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Climate Friendly Materials Platform
The cost of recycling raw materials remains high despite the technological advancements in the field. End-of-life waste recycling is less cost-effective compared to landfill or incineration and its economic feasibility shows large variation according to material type rending secondary recycled materials uncompetitive to primary materials. Eliminating these barriers in the way of circularity and...
16.12.2022| Jessica Richter (The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), Lund University), Timo Gerres (Universidad Pontificia Comillas), Svenja Grummt (Umweltbundesamt (UBA)), Peter Stemmerman (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)), Klaus Jacob (Freie Universität Berlin), Aleksander Sniegocki (Reform Institute), Elise Bernhard (Berlin Recycling GmbH), Boris Jankowiak (Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe), Karsten Neuhoff, Xi Sun, Merve Küçük, Sophie M. Behr
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Policymakers widely use tax-based incentives to spur investment and stimulate economic growth. Tax policy has been at the center of emergency measures during the Covid-19 pandemic, and it is now as countries face a significant deterioration in public finances. Yet, empirical tax research is still in disagreement on how taxes affect business investment. We investigate the effect of local business...
15.02.2023| Charlotte Bartels
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Mehrere thematische Analysen von empirica im Verlauf der letzten 15 Jahre (u.a. zur Kriminalitätsfurcht, Kindergesundheit, Einsamkeit) haben gezeigt, dass neben individuellen Merkmalen – insbesondere sozialen Merkmalen – auch räumliche/nachbarschaftliche Einflussfaktoren auf das Wohlbefinden oder die Gesundheit von Menschen festgestellt werden können. Insbesondere die SOEP-Zusatzstichprobe zur...
22.02.2023| Timo Heyn und Jan Grade, empirica Institut
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
This paper investigates the unique ways in which individuals assimilate new information into their beliefs about stock returns and examines the consequences of heterogeneous information processing on savings and investment decisions. Utilizing two exogenous information treatments from 2017 and 2018 surveys of German households, I discover that individuals' short-term return expectations shift by...
10.05.2023| Sebastian Becker