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This article compares the promotion prospects of East Germans in leadership and elite positions. It starts from the observation that East Germans have lower chances of reaching leadership positions, although these have converged with those of West Germans in younger birth cohorts. Theoretical considerations on the distinction between leadership and elite positions, along with empirical findings based ...
In:
Zeitschrift für Soziologie
54 (2025), 2, 224-237
| Lars Vogel
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Social science research gives rise to what we call the ?refugee mobility puzzle?: While restrictions on the freedom of residence limit refugees? socio-economic integration, those who do not face such restrictions often move to areas with high unemployment that similarly hinder their labor market prospects. This study addresses a central element of this puzzle: What draws refugees to high unemployment ...
In:
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
51 (2025), 5, 1075-1097
| Jonas Wiedner, Merlin Schaeffer
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Data quality is known to be compromised when respondents cognitively shortcut the survey response process. This satisficing behavior leads to inaccurate and unreliable responses that are hard to compensate after data collection. Thus, detecting and understanding surrvey satisficing is crucial for developing and implementing effective preventive measures in longitudinal data collection contexts. We ...
OSFPreprints:
2025,
| Julia Witton, Carina Cornesse
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Food banks are returning to the spotlight as their use increases due to the coronavirus pandemic and the influx of Ukrainian refugees to Germany. The current discussion is focused on whether the food banks can handle the increasing number of users as well as the financial and organizational challenges that come with them. Until now, however, no robust, empirical data on food bank use has been available. ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
39/2022 (2022), 239-244
| Markus M. Grabka, Jürgen Schupp
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Background: Individuals generally see doctors to get physically well, with potential benefits but also costs. We investigate ostracism (feeling ignored and excluded) as one possible factor for frequently seeing doctors. Aims: We test three different conceptual accounts: (1) Ostracism may impact health through stress and social pain processes (i.e., sickness account). (2) Seeing doctors may satisfy ...
In:
European Journal of Health Psychology
(online first) (2024),
| Christiane M. Büttner, Fanny Lalot, Selma C. Rudert, Rainer Greifeneder
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Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people face frequent discrimination, maltreatment, and violence for transgressing gender roles upheld in heteronormative societies. Ostracism (i.e., being excluded and ignored) is likely another, understudied form of discrimination against sexual minorities. In a multi-method approach using a nationally representative panel (N = 4104) and experience sampling data (N ...
In:
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
(online first) (2024), 01461672241240675
| Christiane M. Büttner, Selma C. Rudert, Sven Kachel
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Surveys are an indispensable source of data for applied economic research; however, their reliance on self-reported information can introduce bias, especially if core variables such as personal income are misreported. To assess the extent and impact of this misreporting bias, we compare self-reported wages from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with administrative wages from social security records ...
arXiv:
2024,
| Marco Caliendo, Katrin Huber, Ingo E. Isphording, Jakob Wegmann
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We investigate the long-term effects of the introduction of the German minimum wage in 2015 and its subsequent increases on regional employment. Using comprehensive survey data, we are able to measure the regional bite of the minimum wage in 2014, just before its introduction, as well as in 2018, before it was raised substantially in several steps. The introduction mainly affected the labour market ...
In:
Labour Economics
92 (2025), 102648
| Marco Caliendo, Rebecca Olthaus, Nico Pestel
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We study the mating patterns of non-heterosexual individuals, who represent a significant and increasing portion of the population, particularly among the youth. We estimate a multidimensional matching model of the marriage market where partner's gender is endogenously chosen conditional on the agent's sexual orientation, and is subject to trade-offs that depend on both the agents' preferences ...
IZA,
2024,
(IZA DP No. 17420)
| Edoardo Ciscato, Marion Goussé
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This thesis assesses the potential effects of migration on the sending country, focusing on the impacts of migration on human capital stocks and human capital formation. Over the last century, the number of global migrants has increased substantially. The size of this migration and the skills make-up of those migrating is likely to have wide reaching economic impacts on not just the countries where ...
2022,
| Mory Charles Clark