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This article examines the evolution of the gender wealth gap in Germany during the first decade of the XXI century. This period is characterized by an increase in labour supply of women and change in occupational structure due to numerous reforms undertaken by the government. We use the Firpo, Fortin, Lemieux detailed decomposition technique throughout the wealth distribution to identify the main factors ...
In:
B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
24 (2024), 4, 1045–1071
| Eva Sierminska, Daniela Piazzalunga, Markus Grabka
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Background: If a new job is located in a different region from the place of residence, individuals or households can choose between moving or commuting. However, so far mobility alternatives and their drivers remain under-researched from a comparative perspective. Objective: We investigate the determinants of the mobility choices of individuals who have taken a distant job (50 km or more), considering ...
In:
Demographic Research
50 (2024), 33, 967-1004
| Thomas Skora, Heiko Rüger, Knut Petzold
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This study investigates the impact of sexual orientation on earnings in the German labour market. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel survey from the year 2020, I analyse wage differentials between heterosexual and non-heterosexual workers. The findings reveal that nonheterosexual men earn approximately 7.7%less than their heterosexual counterparts, while lesbian or bisexual women experience a ...
2024,
| Jiayi Song
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Background. Quantifying spatial access to care—the interplay of accessibility and availability—is vital for healthcare planning and understanding implications of services (mal-)distribution. A plethora of methods aims to measure potential spatial access to healthcare services. The current study conducts a systematic review to identify and assess gravity model-type methods for spatial healthcare access ...
In:
International Journal of Health Geographics
22 (2023), 1, 34
| Barbara Stacherl, Odile Sauzet
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How do increasing economic risk cleavages amongst natives shape growing negativity towards immigration? Group conflict theory suggests that tension between immigrant and native groups arises as a reaction to the actual or perceived loss of economic privilege by the majority group members. Yet, such an economically rooted formation of sentiments towards immigration is widely debated. This article aims ...
In:
Migration Studies
(online first) (2024),
| Elif Naz Kayran
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In this paper, we ask whether the main cause of asylum migration, that is, violence in the home country, still affects the life satisfaction of refugees even after they reach a safe country. We combine individual-level survey data on refugees in Germany with country-level data on terror fatalities. The timing of the survey interviews generates exogenous variation in the intensity of recent terror activity ...
In:
World Development
146 (2021), 105562
| Sekou Keita, Paul Schewe
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Do life-course transitions in adulthood shape political orientations? One framework suggests that life events expose people to new information, allowing actors to assess their political beliefs and preferences in response to these social experiences. An alternative framework suggests that the link between one's life-course position and personal politics may be ambiguous, and early experiences ...
In:
Sociological Science
11 (2024), 907-933
| Turgut Keskintuerk
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Many countries rely on short-time work to prevent mass layoffs in economic crises. Despite serving to protect jobs, short-time work may trigger job insecurity perceptions, which may impair employee well-being. Moreover, past experiences of unemployment may increase susceptibility to job insecurity in response to short-time work. Drawing on Conservation of Resources (COR) Theory, Appraisal Theory and ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
25 (2024), 6, 72
| Katharina Klug, Claudia Bernhard-Oettel, Magnus Sverke
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Who makes it to the top? We use the leading, socio-economic survey in Germany supplemented by extensive data on the rich to answer this question. We identify the key predictors for belonging to the top 1 percent of income, wealth, and both distributions jointly. Although we consider many, only a few traits matter: Entrepreneurship and self-employment in conjunction with a sizable inheritance of company ...
In:
The Review of Income and Wealth
71 (2025), 2, e70015
| Johannes König, Christian Schluter, Carsten Schröder
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We analyze socioemotional skills’ role for destination-language proficiency among recent refugees in Germany. While socioemotional skills have been shown to predict educational outcomes, they have been overlooked for immigrants’ language acquisition. We extend a well-established model of destination-language proficiency and assume that socioemotional skills’ effects manifest through the channels of ...
London:
Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London,
2021,
(CReAM Discussion Paper Series No. 20/20)
| Yuliya Kosyakova