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This study analyses travellers’ behavioural responses to two temporal measures implemented by the German government: the reduction in public transport prices, making it almost fare-free, and a decrease in fuel taxes to the minimum level permitted by European law. Based on a panel dataset of GPS-tracked trips collected before and during the price intervention from a representative sample of 276 individuals, ...
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Economics of Transportation
41 (2025), 100382
| Maria Fernanda Guajardo Ortega, Heike Link
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Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature investigates these non-pecuniary costs of unemployment and stresses the importance of social norms, especially for men. We add to this literature by showing that norm non-compliance may equally inflate the non-pecuniary loss of well-being for unemployed women. Using German panel data, we use ...
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Labour Economics
95 (2025), 102752
| Tom Günther, Jakob Conradi, Clemens Hetschko
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This study explores the diversity in the personality profiles of solopreneurs in high- and non-high-tech sectors during the initial business phase, driven by the need to determine whether sector specific personality traits are crucial for entrepreneurial success. Utilizing the Big Five personality traits (BFPT), we analyze data on 4,470 solopreneurs from the IAB/ZEW Start-up Panel (2018 and 2019 waves). ...
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Society and Economy
47 (2025), 2, 129–152
| Wolfgang Hagenauer, Harald T. Zipko
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Green transition policies set long-term targets to reduce carbon emissions and other pollutants, posing a threat to workers in polluting occupations and communities reliant on them. Can far-right parties attract voters who anticipate losing from the green transition? We explore this in Germany, which has ambitious green policies and a large workforce in polluting occupations. The far-right AfD started ...
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American Political Science Review
(2025), 1–23
| Vincent Heddesheimer, Hanno Hilbig, Erik Voeten
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Increasing population ageing and demographic change are accompanied by greater diversity among later age cohorts. This phenomenon is evident with regard to the specific aspect of sexual and gender diversity. In recent decades, an increasing number of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, and other sexual and gender minority (LGBT*) people who have lived through periods with different levels of social acceptance ...
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KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
77 (2025), 4, 911–935
| Robert Heidemann, Lisa de Vries, Zaza Zindel, Ralf Lottmann
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Background While the number of descendants of voluntary and forced migrants rises, disparities in early childhood development (ECD) between these groups remain underexplored. Methods Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (2004-2021; N = 1826), which includes a representative sample of refugees in Germany, we compared developmental outcomes across five domains (communication, daily skills, ...
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European Journal of Public Health
35 (2025), 1
| Valeriia Heidemann, Sabine Zinn, Louise Biddle
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This study investigates the impact of an increase in paid parental leave from six to twelve months on children’s long-term outcomes. Our setting—former East Germany—is characterized by high maternal labor market participation and a universal supply of standardized childcare. It thus mitigates identification issues such as selection into the labor market and provides a clear counterfactual to maternal ...
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Labour Economics
96 (2025), 102740
| Katharina Heisig, Larissa Zierow
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In the face of workforce shortages and transformation challenges, private-sector workers are valuable recruitment targets for public employers. However, little is still known about the drivers of career transitions across sectors. This study utilizes panel data from Germany to explore extrinsic, intrinsic, and prosocial values of private-to-public sector switchers vis-à-vis workers who change employers ...
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Public Management Review
(online first) (2025), 1–36
| Sandra Henninger, Rick Vogel
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Amid the Ukrainian displacement crisis, private hosting of refugees in Europe has surged, yet its impact on integration remains understudied. This research examines the short- to medium-term effects of private hosting on Ukrainian refugee integration in Germany. Using data from one of the largest non-profit platforms that matches private hosts with refugees, we compare the multidimensional integration ...
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Nature Human Behaviour
9 (2025), 2249–2260
| Mathis Herpell, Moritz Marbach, Niklas Harder, Alexandra Orlova, Dominik Hangartner, Jens Hainmueller
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Socio-economic contexts and spatial effects have received increasing attention at the intersection of sociology and education. This research group has laid substantial groundwork in this emerging field of research by developing concepts and methodological techniques for analysing spatial contexts, by collecting and preparing relevant contextual data that can be linked with survey data, and by measuring ...
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Sabine Weinert, Gwendolin Josephine Blossfeld, Hans-Peter Blossfeld ,
Education, Competence Development and Career Trajectories: Analysing Data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)
Cham: Springer International Publishing
249–270
| Steffen Hillmert, Andreas Hartung, Katarina Weßling