-
In this project, we analyze whether the arts can mitigate negative impacts of social distancing and isolation on mental health and wellbeing, ease the burden of closed day-care and school facilities on families, and preserve attitudes of solidarity and trust. Using the SOEP-CoV questionnaire, we examine whether experience with music enabled individuals and households to handle social isolation and ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2024,
(SOEPpapers 1211)
| Martina Metzger, Hans Walter Steinhauer, Jennifer Pédussel Wu
-
This paper examines the extent to which quality characteristics of early childhood education and care (ECEC) experienced at ages 4–6 influence externalizing problems at ages 6–8. Based on a random sample of 713 same-sex twins (55% female, 41% with a migration background) in 364 ECEC centers in Germany, the paper not only distinguishes between detailed ECEC quality characteristics but additionally investigates ...
In:
KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
76 (2024), 3, 547-572
| Bastian Mönkediek, Pia Schober, Martin Diewald, Harald Eichhorn, C. Katharina Spiess
-
This study examines the impact of local economic opportunity structures on mobility intentions and mobility behaviour subsequent to involuntary job loss in Germany. Previous research has demonstrated that job loss leads to an increased propensity for regional mobility; however, the role of the regional economy as a push factor and its influence on the decision to relocate remains unclear. The focus ...
In:
Review of Regional Research
(online first) (2025),
| Katrin Rickmeier
-
Despite ongoing debates on environmental justice, the link between selective residential migration and the unequal exposure to environmental hazards remains underexplored. Previous research has often relied on spatially aggregated data and focused on single-country analyses, limiting our understanding of broader patterns. We address this gap using longitudinal household-level data from the UK Household ...
In:
Social Forces
(online first) (2025),
| Tobias Rüttenauer, Felix Bader, Ingmar Ehler, Henning Best
-
Job changes often require workers to relocate. However, many workers are not isolated agents but live in couples who make location decisions jointly. When relocation occurs due to a job change by the "main" earner, the other partner becomes a "tied mover" who is likely to benefit less from the move; typically, the latter is the woman, and the "tied-mover penalty" then ...
SSRN:
2025,
| Christian Schluter, Carsten Schröder, Francesca Verga
-
Earnings inequality in Germany has increased dramatically. Measuring inequality locally at the level of cities annually since 1985, we find that behind this development is the rapidly worsening inequality in the largest cities, driven by increasing earnings polarisation. In the cross-section, local earnings inequality rises substantially in city size, and this city-size inequality penalty has increased ...
In:
The Journal of Economic Inequality
22 (2024), 3, 531-550
| Christian Schluter, Mark Trede
-
For the first time in 2020, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), an annual survey of private households, surveyed the donation behavior of a random sample of high net worth individuals that had been added in 2019. As a result of this sample, the volume of private donations increased from 9.7 to 10.3 billion euros in 2019, despite the fact that fewer individuals donated and the donation rate was lower (46.8 ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
45/46/2022 (2022), 283-292
| Karsten Schulz-Sandhof, Jürgen Schupp
-
This paper studies wage effects and job mobility as a result of skill mismatch in worker- occupation pairs. I develop a Roy model in which learning on the job induces workers to shift more time towards job-specific activities. Using a short task panel containing data on worker's time allocation of job tasks, I test the model's implications and present three main findings. First, workers who ...
Essen:
RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung,
2023,
(Ruhr Economic Papers No. 1021)
| Eduard Storm
-
For many attempts to inform evidence-based policymaking (or policy-makers in general) researchers have to rely on already available (instead of newly collected) data. These data have to be reliable, accessible (at best, without high hurdles, and with low or no fees to be paid) and findable. One way that helps to find suitable data that are easily accessible (and hopefully reliable) is to look at the ...
In:
AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv
18 (2024), 2, 279-287
| Joachim Wagner
-
A representative survey from August 2022 confirms public support for a universal basic income (UBI): Between 45 and 55 percent of respondents are in favor of a universal basic income and the unconditional financial security it promises. Two representative surveys from August 2022 investigate who exactly UBI supporters are and which UBI model they prefer. The surveys show that younger people in particular ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
21/2023 (2023), 143-150
| Marius R. Busemeyer, Adrian Rinscheid, Jürgen Schupp