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The recent successes of populist radical right (PRR) parties have caused major upheavals across European political landscapes. Yet, the roots of their rising popularity continue to be widely debated. We contribute to these debates by advancing a thus far underexplored argument of rising rent burden as key to understanding contemporary PRR vote and nativist attitudes. Rising rents lie at the heart of ...
In:
Research & Politics
10 (2023), 2, 20531680231167680
| Alexander Held, Pauliina Patana
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Many countries subsidize low income employments or small jobs. These subsidies and their phasing out can generate labor market frictions and distort incentives. The German Minijob program subsidizes low income jobs. It generates a 'Minijob trap' with substantial bunching along the earnings distribution. Since 2003, the Midijob subsidy aims to reduce the Minijob-induced notch in the net earnings ...
In:
International Tax and Public Finance
(Online First) (2025),
| Anna Herget, Regina T. Riphahn
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We present experimental evidence that enabling access to universal early child care for families with lower socioeconomic status (SES) increases maternal labor supply. Our intervention provides families with customized help for child care applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment among lower-SES families. The treatment increases lower-SES mothers' full-time employment rates by ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2022,
(IZA DP No. 15814)
| Henning Hermes, Marina Krauß, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter, Simon Wiederhold
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We study socio-economic determinants of parental willingness to vaccinate themselves and their children against COVID-19 in Germany. We find that better educated parents are more likely to vaccinate both themselves as well as their children. Own experience with restrictions due to Corona measures are also positively related to vaccination willingness. Parents who vaccinate themselves and their children ...
2023,
(SSRN Working Paper)
| Valentin L. Hörnig, Sandra Schaffner, Hendrik Schmitz
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Single, separated mothers report lower levels of psychological well-being than partnered mothers. This study examines whether this penalty in well-being results from the burdens of single parenting or from the stress and strain of union dissolution. The data come from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Our sample consists of 1919 childless women and mothers who reported a union dissolution. We ...
In:
Journal of Family Studies
28 (2022), 4, 1272-1286
| Björn Huss, Matthias Pollmann-Schult
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People differ in their general tendency to endorse conspiracy theories (that is, conspiracy mentality). Previous research yielded inconsistent findings on the relationship between conspiracy mentality and political orientation, showing a greater conspiracy mentality either among the political right (a linear relation) or amongst both the left and right extremes (a curvilinear relation). We revisited ...
In:
Nature Human Behaviour
6 (2022), 3, 392-403
| Roland Imhoff, Felix Zimmer, Olivier Klein, João H. C. António, Maria Babinska, et al.
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Zuwanderer in Deutschland haben einen geringeren Arbeitsmarkterfolg als gebürtige Deutsche. Dieser Umstand betrifft nicht nur die Zuwanderer selbst, sondern hat auch Bestand in den nachfolgenden Generationen. Die Gründe für den geringeren Arbeitsmarkterfolg sind so vielfältig wie die Gruppe der Einwanderer selbst, die Ursache jedoch liegt häufig in einer unzureichenden beruflichen Integration. Die ...
2023,
| Kai Ingwersen
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This paper investigates the effects of the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany on the wages and employment of migrants. Migrants are an overrepresented group in the low-wage sector and can be expected to particularly benefit from a minimum wage. We combine a "differential trend adjusted difference-in-differences estimator" (DTADD) and descriptive evidence to evaluate the impact ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2022,
(IZA DP No. 15823)
| Kai Ingwersen, Stephan L. Thomsen
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Purpose: While the existence of a healthy migrant effect remains controversial, overweight and obesity are considered a global pandemic. Migrants seem to be affected more often, however most of the few existing studies did not differentiate a first-generation from a second-generation migration background and/or did not control common socio-demographic confounders. This study aims at examining the influence ...
In:
Annals of Epidemiology
76 (2022), 108-113
| Pia Jäger, Katharina Beyer, Kevin Claassen
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Purpose: Previous studies have used language proficiency, citizenship, labour indicators, educational outcomes and political rights as measures of migrants’ socio-cultural integration. However, little is known about the migrants’ participation in volunteering activities, music concerts, theatrical plays and artistic activities, among others, and how this is compared to the participation of natives, ...
In:
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal
42 (2023), 3, 416-433
| Eleftherios Giovanis, Sacit Hadi Akdede