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This paper examines the possible spillover effects of parental unemployment on the subjective well-being of 12- to 21-year-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their children’s life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal unemployment has adverse ...
In:
Review of Economics of the Household
(online first) (2025),
| Melanie Borah, Andreas Knabe, Christine Lücke
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This paper aims to understand the health effects of energy poverty in Germany using SOEP panel data from 2010 to 2020. Linear probability and fixed effects ordered logit models reveal a consistently negative relationship of three expenditures-based energy poverty indicators with general health: the odds ratio of being in better health decreases between about 6 % and 8 %. This association is stronger ...
In:
Energy Economics
145 (2025), 108376
| Martin Buchner, Miriam Rehm
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We analyse how educational aspirations and intentions of adult refugees in Germany are shaped by their foreign educational credentials and their previous occupational status. Because the allocation of medium-skilled jobs on the German labour market heavily relies on a variety of credentials, unlike in the countries of origin, where skills are usually acquired on the job but not formally certified, ...
In:
European Sociological Review
41 (2025), 4, 516–537
| Marvin Bürmann, Dorian Tsolak
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While the body of literature on the non-take-up of public aid has grown substantially in recent years, a notable gap remains in the literature of non-take-up rates for student aid programs, where research is still extremely limited. This paper examines the non-take-up rate of Germany's federal student aid program BAföG by creating a microsimulation based on data from the German Socio-Economic ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2025,
(SOEPpapers 1226)
| Alexander Eriksson Byström, María Sól Antonsdóttir
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In this study, we contribute to the literature about the effects of improving access to citizenship on integration outcomes. Hereby, we exploit exogenous variation from two citizenship reforms in Germany to estimate the effects of residency requirements on perceived discrimination, which is strongly linked to individual well-being, sense of belonging, and migration desires and decisions. We find that ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin; SOEP,
2025,
(SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 1223)
| Adriana R. Cardozo, Christopher Prömel
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Do unemployed people benefit from more free time, while consumption is the sole motive for employed people to accept a life with less available time? Does this apply equally to men and women? To inform ongoing policy debates on how to address the problem of unemployment, we provide a comprehensive discussion of the traditionally assumed trade-off between income and leisure in labor supply decisions, ...
In:
European Economic Review
171 (2025), 104879
| Adrian Chadi, Clemens Hetschko
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What kind of earnings mobility regime defines our society? Are individuals’ earnings trajectories primarily shaped by their social class position, or do trajectories vary within them? These unresolved questions lie at the heart of debates on social class and labor market rewards. To address them, we leverage employment relations theory and data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We use mixed effects ...
2025,
| Philipp Lersch, Nhat An Trinh, Caspar Kaiser
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Background: The labor market activities of immigrants are diverse and highly gendered. Few studies have examined these disparities by legal entry pathway in a multi-state framework that accounts for multiple entries to and exits from the market. Objective: We analyze immigrants’ timing and level of participation in training and labor market activities by gender, parity, and legal entry pathway. Methods: ...
In:
Demographic Research
53 (2025), 33, 1063–1100
| Chia Liu, Hill Kulu
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In this paper, we combine Census data with death records to examine the relationship between income inequality and race-specific mortality across 5,565 municipalities in Brazil. We find that overall income inequality is strongly associated with Non-White mortality but not with White mortality. To understand this disparity, we decompose the Gini coefficient and find that the racial income gap accounts ...
In:
World Development
202 (2026),
| Gedeão Locks, Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez
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How does the recent hike in interest rates translate into housing markets and shape preferences for government intervention? Homeownership constitutes the most typical form of private wealth accumulation. Yet, with the decade long period of low interest rates ending in 2022, higher financing costs decreased the affordability of ownership substantially. This paper analyzes implications for the political ...
In:
European Journal of Political Economy
(2025), 102714
| Hannah Loeffler