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Empirically identifying the causal effect of social capital on immigrants’ economic prospects is a challenging task due to the non-random residential sorting of immigrants into locations with greater opportunities for prior or co-ethnic connections. Our study addresses this selection-bias issue by using a natural-experimental dataset of refugees and other immigrants who were exogenously allocated to ...
In:
Comparative Migration Studies
10 (2022), 1, 15
| Klarita Gërxhani, Yuliya Kosyakova
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We use the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984-2008 to identify the sources of this apparent „polarization“ among unskilled men. We start by confirming that earnings inequality among low-skilled men has grown substantially (measured as earnings over a given three-year period in order to minimize effects of short-term fluctuations). Drawing on economic and sociological theories, we then discuss potential ...
Berlin:
2012,
| Johannes Giesecke, Jan Paul Heisig, Heike Solga
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has profoundly transformed numerous facets of both private and professional life. Understanding how people evaluate AI is crucial for predicting its future adoption and addressing potential barriers. However, existing instruments measuring attitudes towards AI often focus on specific technologies or cross-domain evaluations, while domain-specific measurement instruments ...
In:
Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans
3 (2025), March 2025, 100106
| Timo Gnambs, Jan-Philipp Stein, Markus Appel, Florian Griese, Sabine Zinn
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The empirical literature on the relationship between age and well-being is characterised by an unusually persistent series of disagreements over data, method, and interpretation. Previous attempts to advance the discussion have involved different scholars’ specific prescriptions, which were often in near total contradiction to other scholars’ attempts to do the same. Instead, we use specification curve ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2025,
(SOEPpapers 1235)
| Kausik Chaudhuri, Alan Piper
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Personality traits have been confirmed to be associated with mental health, but their influence on the trajectories of depressive symptoms among middle-aged and older adults in China is not well understood. This study seeks to identify distinct trajectories of depressive symptoms and explore their relationship with the Big Five personality traits in China.
In:
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
(2025),
| Weichao Chen, Wanren Wang, Xiaoyan Wang
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This paper examines the stability of self-control over time using nationally-representative longitudinal data from Australia. We track the same individuals between 2019 and 2023, a period encompassing one of the most disruptive global crisis in recent history: the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite these extraordinary circumstances, self-control remained remarkably stable: its mean and distribution were unchanged, ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2025,
(IZA DP No. 18270)
| Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Anthony Lepinteur, Giorgia Menta
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Since the turn of the twenty-first century, subnational regions have become increasingly polarized with regard to anti-immigration attitudes. However, the reasons behind geographical changes over time are unclear. We argue that regional labor market risks are a key and overlooked factor driving residential choices and subsequent attitudinal change. We rely on georeferenced panel data from the German ...
In:
British Journal of Political Science
55 (2025),
| Denis Cohen, Sergi Pardos-Prado
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The rise of the knowledge economy draws workers towards concentrated skill clusters and creates political conflicts between urban high-opportunity areas and rural and suburban areas of lower dynamism. We advance the existing literature with a dynamic perspective by studying the political consequences of a structural pull into destinations that are typically more progressive than the places of origin. ...
In:
British Journal of Political Science
55 (2025),
| Valentina Consiglio, Thomas Kurer
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While the structural disadvantage and discrimination migrants face are well-documented, migrants’ perceptions of meritocracy and equality of opportunity remain underexplored. This study addresses this gap using a mixed-methods approach, combining data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), the European Social Survey (ESS), and in-depth qualitative interviews and group discussions (N = 47). Quantitative ...
OSF Preprints:
2026,
| Margherita Cusmano
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Sakibphobia—proposed by S M Nazmuz Sakib—posits an irrational aversion, resentment, and discriminatory bias toward people perceived as “more successful”. We empirically position this theory within established social–psychological constructs: malicious vs. benign envy (BeMaS), social comparison orientation (INCOM), and downstream counterproductive social behaviors (e.g., workplace incivility). We identify ...
In:
Advances in Sociology, Psychology & Human Behavior
2 (2026), 1, 1–5
| Susmita Das, Farhana Siddiqui, Nafija Alam Omi, Israth Jahan Sonda, Lubbabah Sugra Siddiqi Tamanna, Mousumi Begum