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Refugees are increasingly succeeding in integrating into the German labour market. However, according to an analysis based on the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees, women benefit significantly less than men from these advances.
In:
IAB-Forum, 2022-07-15
(2022),
| Yuliya Kosyakova, Lidwina Gundacker, Zerrin Salikutluk, Parvati Trübswetter
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Objective: This article investigates the role of social connections - kin proximity, premigration friends, and exposure to intra- and interethnic contacts in the host country - in the division of routine housework in refugee couples in Germany. Background: Although social connections are established as an influential factor in the economic and societal integration of newcomers, the role of such connections ...
In:
Journal of Family Research
34 (2022), 2, 802-822
| Yuliya Kosyakova, Nevena Kulic
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Against the backdrop of rising support for right- and left-wing populist parties in Europe, a long-standing argument has been that the more vulnerable strata of society are deprived by structural economic change as well as increasing social inequality and express their grievances by voting for radical and populist parties. Previous research has tested the thesis either based on cross-sectional data ...
In:
European Sociological Review
38 (2022), 1, 138-152
| Jörg Hartmann, Karin Kurz, Holger Lengfeld
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This paper studies the long-term impact of a paid parental leave reform in former East Germany in 1986 on maternal physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a maximum of twelve months. I use representative survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and a difference-in-differences design in a quasi-experimental ...
München:
CESifo,
2023,
(CESifo Working Paper No. 10308)
| Katharina Heisig
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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.