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According to Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data, inequality in gross monthly earnings in Germany increased significantly between 1993 and 2003 and has been stagnating at a high level since 2008. As this Weekly Report shows, the increase is not being driven by higher hourly wage inequality, but rather by working hours: In recent years, employees with a high hourly wage work more than previously compared ...
DIW Wochenbericht 12 (2022), 32, 195| Mattis Beckmannshagen, Carsten Schröder
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Purpose: Countries have implemented various migration policies targeting the migrants' economic and political integration and social inclusion. However, little is known about the impact of migration policies on migrants' participation in socio-cultural activities and their link with well-being. The first aim of this study is to explore the effect of the Migration Act of 2000 in Germany on participation ...
In:
Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences
(online first) (2022),
| Eleftherios Giovanis
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Contemporary societies are not only “risk societies”, but also insurance societies. While the shift of systemic risks from the community to the individual is a distinctive trait of modernity, research on the consequences of this process has focused almost exclusively on welfare state responses aimed at re-collectivizing societal risks. Individual-level reactions associated with the need for a private ...
In:
The British Journal of Sociology
(online first) (2022),
| Sinisa Hadziabdic, Sebastian Kohl
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Purpose: Cross-sectional studies found high levels of depression and anxiety symptoms, and loneliness during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Reported increases were lower in longitudinal population-based findings. Studies including positive outcomes are rare. This study analyzed changes in mental health symptoms, loneliness, and satisfaction. Methods: Respondents of the German Socio-Economic ...
In:
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
(online first) (2022),
| Nora Hettich, Theresa M. Entringer, Hannes Kröger, Peter Schmidt, Ana N. Tibubos, Elmar Braehler, Manfred E. Beutel
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Einstellungsverhalten, Entlohnung und Beschäftigungsperspektiven in neu gegründeten Betrieben: In der Volkswirtschaftslehre wird das Unternehmertum als treibende Kraft hinter dem Prozess kreativer Zerstörung betrachtet, die Innovationen in den Markt einführt, ineffiziente Betriebe verdrängt, und so den Grundstein für das Wachstum der Wirtschaft legt. Ein wesentlicher Bestandteil unternehmerischen Handelns ...
2022,
| Lisa Hölscher
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Kinder wachsen und verändern sich ganz offensichtlich im Laufe der Zeit, aber nicht nur sie. Menschen verändern sich über ihre gesamte Lebensspanne. Empirisch belegt ist, dass sich auch die Persönlichkeit von Erwachsenen (d.h.: Offenheit für Erfahrungen, Gewissenhaftigkeit, Extraversion, Verträglichkeit, Neurotizismus) und ihr soziales Leben (z.B.: Größe des sozialen Netzwerks) bis ins hohe Alter verändern. ...
2022,
| Julia Sander
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Public opinion climates on immigrants are subject to certain dynamics. This study examines two mechanisms for such dynamics in Western EU member states for the 2002–2018 period. First, the impact of cohort replacement and, second, the impact of periodic threat perceptions, namely, changing macroeconomic conditions and shifts in immigration rates. To date, empirical research on anti-immigrant sentiments ...
In:
International Journal of Comparative Sociology
62 (2021), 4, S. 281–310
| Katja Schmidt
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We analyse the causal effect of education on patience (also known as time preference) and risk willingness using the German compulsory schooling reform, which took effect in West Germany after World War II. This reform increased compulsory schooling from 8 years to 9 years. We use two-stage least squares to obtain causal effects. In line with the literature, the results show a positive effect of education ...
In:
Applied Economics
(online first) (2022),
| Beatrice Baaba Tawiah
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This doctoral thesis contributes to research on over-time trends in the intergenerational transmission of inequality in two major European societies. Paper 1 entitled ‘Intergenerational Class Mobility of Labour Market Entrants in Germany and the UK since the 1950s’ shows that absolute mobility between parents’ social class and their children’s first social class has continuously changed. Still, increases ...
2021,
| Nhat An Trinh
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There is a vast literature on the determinants of subjective wellbeing. Yet, standard regression models explain little variation in wellbeing. We here use data from Germany, the UK, and the US to assess the potential of Machine Learning (ML) to help us better understand wellbeing. Compared to traditional models, ML approaches provide moderate improvements in predictive performance. Drastically expanding ...
Oxford:
Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School (INET Oxford),
2022,
(INET Oxford Working Paper No. 2022-11)
| Ekaterina Oparina, Caspar Kaiser, Niccolò Gentile, Alexandre Tkatchenko, Andrew E. Clark, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Conchita D'Ambrosio