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Family Policies and Single Parent Poverty in 18 OECD Countries, 1978-2008

In this study, we examined to what extent family policies differently affect poverty among single-parent households and two-parent households. We distinguished between reconciliation policies (tested with parental leave and the proportion of unpaid leave) and financial support policies (tested with family allowances). We used data from the Luxembourg Income Study Database, covering 514,019 households ...

The Relation between Religiosity and Muslims' Social Integration: A Two-Wave Study of Recent Immigrants in Three European Countries

Does their degree of religiosity affect how successfully recent Muslim migrants integrate socially into the host society in terms of their social contacts with the majority population and their ethno-religious group? And/or do these co-ethnic and interethnic social contacts affect the religiosity of Muslim migrants over time? On the basis of a two-wave study among recent migrants in Germany, the Netherlands ...

Stepping Off the Hedonic Treadmill: Latent Class Analyses of Individual Differences in Response to Major Life Events

Theorists have long maintained that people react to major life events but then return to a set-point of subjective well-being. Although evidence now indicates substantial inter-individual variability in these reactions, prior research has been limited by its use of average trajectories. In this study, we used latent growth mixture modeling to identify specific patterns of individual variation in response ...

Ideology, Family Policy and Gender Economic Inequality: Different Models, Different Tradeoffs

Winners and Losers: The Consequences of Welfare State Policies for Gender Wage Inequality

Cross-national studies of the impact of welfare states on gender inequality tend to overlook socioeconomic divisions among women. This paper challenges the implicit assumption that welfare states have uniform effects on the labour market attainments of all women, arguing that the impact of state intervention is necessarily conditioned by women’s relative advantage or disadvantage in the labour market. ...

The Prevalence of Welfare-State Policies and Gender Socioeconomic Inequality: A Comparative Analysis

A Class Perspective on Gender Inequalitiy: How Welfare States Shape the Gender Pay Gap

Beyond the Employment Agency: The Effect of Social Capital on the Duration of Unemployment

This paper relates an individual’s social capital and the length of unemployment spells of the very same individual. For this purpose, we analyze several facets of an agent’s social activities as determinants of her social capital. Social activities lead to social interactions within organizational settings, which build up social capital at the group level. Via social interactions an exchange of knowledge ...

Does Education Affect Attitudes Towards Immigration? Evidence from Germany

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting the staggered implementation of a compulsory schooling reform in West Germany, this article finds that an additional year of schooling lowers the probability of being very concerned about immigration to Germany by around six percentage points (20 percent). Furthermore, our findings imply significant spillovers from maternal education to ...

Early Career Experiences and Later Career Success: An International Comparison