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Lifespan psychological and life course sociological research have long shown that spousal bereavement constitutes one of the most stressful life events in older adulthood that is often associated with marked declines in well-being. It is an open question though whether and how the well-being implications of spousal loss have changed over the past decades. To do so, we used multi-year within-person ...
In:
European Journal of Personality
(Online First) (2025),
| Urmimala Ghose, Michael D. Krämer, David Richter, Gert G. Wagner, Frank J. Infurna, Nilam Ram, Denis Gerstorf
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This paper aims at providing new evidence about the link between personal and functional distribution and top-shares composition. We apply a novel class scheme based on two key features of contemporary capitalism i.e., individuals/households receiving multiple types of incomes, and the role of managers. The empirical application in Germany, Spain, and Italy over the period 2000–2017 reveals two main ...
In:
The Journal of Economic Inequality
(online first) (2024),
| Luca Giangregorio, Davide Villani
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In 2015–16, Germany experienced a rapid and controversial increase in refugees that varied substantially across German districts. This increase provides unique leverage for analyzing how fractionalization, threat, and contact shape the consequences of immigration and ethnolinguistic heterogeneity. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel and local district-level administrative data on refugee shares, ...
In:
American Journal of Sociology
130 (2024), 3, 725-763
| Marco Giesselmann, David Brady, Tabea Naujoks
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To obtain a more complete understanding of the persisting gender earnings gap in Germany, this paper investigates both the cross-sectional and lifetime dimension of gender inequalities. Based on a dynamic microsimulation model, we analyse how gender differences accumulate over work lives to examine the lifetime dimension of the gender gap. We estimate an average gender gap in lifetime earnings of 51.5 ...
In:
LABOUR
38 (2024), 425-474
| Rick Glaubitz, Astrid Harnack-Eber, Miriam Wetter
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The transition to parenthood represents a turning point shaping couples’ arrangements for paid work and housework. Previous studies often examined these changes in isolation, rather than as interrelated trajectories reflecting diverse models of family division of labor. Drawing on data from different-sex couples from the 1984–2019 Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the 1984–2020 German Socio-Economic ...
In:
Advances in Life Course Research
60 (2024), 100611
| Wen Fan
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This paper examines the effects of the 2013 flood disaster in East Germany on subjective wellbeing. Merging geo-spatial flood data with longitudinal data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we use a panel event study design for the analysis. Our results show that those affected by the flood report a significant life satisfaction drop of 0.17 points on an 11-point scale, which is equivalent to a 2.5% ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2025,
(SOEPpapers 1224)
| Sachintha Fernando, Katharina Kolb, Christoph Wunder
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Previous research finds that recent immigrants are healthier than the native-born, while more established immigrants exhibit worse health, suggesting a process of unhealthy assimilation. However, previous literature is mostly based on cross-sectional data or on longitudinal analyses similarly failing to disentangle individual-level variation from between-individual confounding. Moreover, previous longitudinal ...
In:
Social Science & Medicine
351 (2024), June 2024, 116976
| Alessandro Ferrara, Carla Grindel, Claudia Brunori
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The German “Tax-Reform 2000” involved a strong reduction in the progressivity of labor income taxation. It led to a rise in overall labor income, but also increased income inequality. Utilizing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP. 2016. Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), Data for Years 1984–2016, Version 33) for the years 1998–2007, we employ a general equilibrium framework à la Antràs et al. ...
In:
German Economic Review
(online first) (2024),
| Benjamin Jung, Timo Walter
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The German “Tax-Reform 2000” involved a strong reduction in the progressivity of labor income taxation. It led to a rise in overall labor income, but also increased income inequality. Utilizing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP. 2016. Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), Data for Years 1984–2016, Version 33) for the years 1998–2007, we employ a general equilibrium framework à la Antràs et al. ...
In:
German Economic Review
25 (2024), 3, 209-239
| Benjamin Jung, Timo Walter
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Patient empowerment calls for an intensified participation of (informed) patients with more treatment opportunities to choose from. A growing body of literature argues that confronting consumers with too many opportunities can lead to a choice overload (CO) resulting in uncertainty that the selected alternative dominates all other options in the choice set. We examine whether there is a CO effect in ...
In:
International Journal of Health Economics and Management
24 (2024), 3, 357-373
| Helmut Herwartz, Christoph Strumann