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Income inequality is a central topic for the social sciences. Work on it is often motivated by the idea that inequality implies some welfare loss. Yet, the size of this loss remains an open question. A definite answer would be crucial for economic policy-making. The goal of this paper is to show that the evidential foundations of this debate can be advanced with survey data on wellbeing. For this purpose, ...
Oxford:
University of Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre,
2023,
(University of Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre Working Paper 2302)
| Caspar Kaiser
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Utilizing the German residential allocation and residency obligation policies, which can be regarded as a natural experiment, we investigate the causal effect of the local supply of language courses on refugees' labor market integration. By restricting refugees? initial and post-arrival regional mobility, these policies allow us to circumvent the potential problems of initial and post-arrival ...
In:
European Societies
25 (2023), 1, 1-36
| Agnieszka Kanas, Yuliya Kosyakova
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The literature argues that linguistic enclaves negatively affect immigrants? language proficiency by reducing their exposure and incentives to learn destination language. This negative association may, however, be spurious, arising due to the self-selection of immigrants into regions with larger enclaves. Exploiting the natural experiment of the German residential policy, this paper analyses the influence ...
In:
Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
(online first) (2022),
| Agnieszka Kanas, Yuliya Kosyakova, Ehsan Vallizadeh
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Emerging evidence has highlighted the important role of local contexts for integration trajectories of asylum seekers and refugees. Germany's policy of randomly allocating asylum seekers across Germany may advantage some and disadvantage others in terms of opportunities for equal participation in society. This study explores the question whether asylum seekers that have been allocated to rural ...
In:
Frontiers in Sociology
7 (2022), 941775
| Samir Khalil, Ulrich Kohler, Jasper Tjaden
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Refugees are increasingly succeeding in integrating into the German labour market. However, according to an analysis based on the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees, women benefit significantly less than men from these advances.
In:
IAB-Forum, 2022-07-15
(2022),
| Yuliya Kosyakova, Lidwina Gundacker, Zerrin Salikutluk, Parvati Trübswetter
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Objective: This article investigates the role of social connections - kin proximity, premigration friends, and exposure to intra- and interethnic contacts in the host country - in the division of routine housework in refugee couples in Germany. Background: Although social connections are established as an influential factor in the economic and societal integration of newcomers, the role of such connections ...
In:
Journal of Family Research
34 (2022), 2, 802-822
| Yuliya Kosyakova, Nevena Kulic
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Against the backdrop of rising support for right- and left-wing populist parties in Europe, a long-standing argument has been that the more vulnerable strata of society are deprived by structural economic change as well as increasing social inequality and express their grievances by voting for radical and populist parties. Previous research has tested the thesis either based on cross-sectional data ...
In:
European Sociological Review
38 (2022), 1, 138-152
| Jörg Hartmann, Karin Kurz, Holger Lengfeld
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This paper studies the long-term impact of a paid parental leave reform in former East Germany in 1986 on maternal physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a maximum of twelve months. I use representative survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and a difference-in-differences design in a quasi-experimental ...
München:
CESifo,
2023,
(CESifo Working Paper No. 10308)
| Katharina Heisig
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The recent successes of populist radical right (PRR) parties have caused major upheavals across European political landscapes. Yet, the roots of their rising popularity continue to be widely debated. We contribute to these debates by advancing a thus far underexplored argument of rising rent burden as key to understanding contemporary PRR vote and nativist attitudes. Rising rents lie at the heart of ...
In:
Research & Politics
10 (2023), 2, 20531680231167680
| Alexander Held, Pauliina Patana
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Many countries subsidize low income employments or small jobs. These subsidies and their phasing out can generate labor market frictions and distort incentives. The German Minijob program subsidizes low income jobs. It generates a 'Minijob trap' with substantial bunching along the earnings distribution. Since 2003, the Midijob subsidy aims to reduce the Minijob-induced notch in the net earnings ...
In:
International Tax and Public Finance
(Online First) (2025),
| Anna Herget, Regina T. Riphahn