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Previous research has shown that social inequalities in the transition to higher education are a persistent phenomenon in Germany. Additionally, studies indicate that graduates from vocational schools are less likely to enter higher education, compared to their peers who graduated from general schools. However, research is scarce about how social background effects may differ for graduates from vocational ...
In:
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
17 (2025), 1, 7
| David Nika
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Free speech is essential for informed decision-making, government efficacy, and fostering innovation in liberal societies. But what promotes or hinders freedom of speech values? Exploiting the natural experiment of German separation and later reunification, we show that living under communism has had lasting effects on free speech opinions, and the convergence process has been slow. East Germans are ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
227 (2024),
| Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova
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Wealth inequality results from stratified access to accumulation opportunities, relating to differences in income, financial behavior, and transfers. Yet, it remains unclear whether these wealth accumulation channels differ in their perceived relevance for women and men along the wealth distribution. A deeper understanding of such perceptions is crucial for explaining attitudes toward inequality, shaping ...
OSF Preprints:
2025,
| Theresa Nutz, Nicole Kapelle, Daria Tisch
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In light of persistent regional inequalities in adaptive outcomes such as health, well-being, and related personality traits, psychological research is increasingly adopting a historical perspective to understand the deeper roots of these patterns. In this study, we examine the role of ancient cultures, specifically the impact of Roman civilization around two thousand years ago, on the macro-psychological ...
In:
Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology
8 (2025), 100214
| Martin Obschonka, Fabian Wahl, Michael Fritsch, Michael Wyrwich, P. Jason Rentfrow, Jeff Potter, Samuel D. Gosling
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Interviewers have long been identified as a source of error in face-to-face surveys. However, previous studies have typically focused on a single source of interviewer error and single-country cross-sectional surveys. We extend this literature by investigating interviewer errors from multiple dimensions in the Oesterreichische Nationalbank Euro Survey, a cross-national survey conducted annually in ...
In:
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society
(online first) (2025),
| Lukas Olbrich, Elisabeth Beckmann, Joseph W Sakshaug
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Background: Many refugees arrived in Germany in 2015 and 2016. At the same time, anti-refugee attitudes among Germans increased. This indicates an association between immigration and attitudes. Now, ten years later, renewed public concern about immigration - while not many immigrate to Germany - highlights the need to identify factors that shape attitudes towards refugees. Aim: Thus, I tested whether ...
Berlin:
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP),
2025,
(SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 1231)
| Alyna Paul
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Differences in educational trajectories between social backgrounds can only be partially explained by differences in cognitive abilities and are therefore considered educational inequalities. In this study, multiple constructs involved in the prediction of educational success were investigated in a joint approach to specify their unique contributions and to identify mechanisms associated with how socioeconomic ...
In:
Intelligence
113 (2025), 101970
| Lena Paulus, Frank M. Spinath, Elisabeth Hahn
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Background Understanding the trajectories of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) across different age cohorts and sociodemographic factors is crucial for promoting healthy aging. This study aims to examine the course of physical and mental HRQoL over a 16-year period in a nationwide sample of the German population. Methods Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel spanning from 2002 to 2018 (N = 4111; ...
In:
Social Science & Medicine
366 (2025), 117718
| C. Kasinger, L. Kriechel, S. Hahm, A. Reinwarth, B. Strauss, M. Beutel, E. Brähler, L. Altweck
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The COVID-19 pandemic constituted a global stressor confronting people with various challenges. We aimed to explore mental well-being trajectories from before (2015–2019) and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2021) and investigate the contribution of potentially protective factors to mental well-being response patterns. We analyzed data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the collaborative ...
In:
Current Psychology
(2025),
| Corinna Kausmann, Niels Michalski, Caroline Cohrdes
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Although women’s educational achievement and human capital have increased, the wage gap persists both in Germany and Turkey. Also, there are many differences in terms of labor market policies for both countries. This study will discuss the current situation within the framework of various wage gap theories and estimate the relationship between an extensive range of human capital, and economic and social ...
In:
Sage Open
15 (2025), 3,
| Fazıl Kayıkçı, Daniel Meyer, Rui Alexandre Cstanho, Fatma Çoban Kayıkçı, Sema Yılmaz