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This paper explores the empirical relationship between local economic conditions, social capital, and individual characteristics on the one hand and satisfaction with democracy on the other hand, using detailed information from the German Socio-Economic Panel. In contrast to previous literature, we focus on economic conditions at the state level instead of the national one. We find that local economic ...
In:
Economics of Governance
25 (2024), 3, 335-377
| Tim Friehe, Christian Pfeifer
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Informal childcare care by grandparents, other relatives or friends is an important source of support in many Western countries, including Germany. Yet the role of this type of care is often overlooked in accounts of social policies supporting families with children, which tend to focus on formal childcare. This article examines whether the large formal childcare expansion occurring in Germany in the ...
In:
Social Policy & Administration
(online first) (2024),
| Ludovica Gambaro, Clara Schäper, C. Katharina Spiess
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The German Social Cohesion Panel (SCP) is a probability-based self-administered longitudinal study in a mixed-mode design (PAPI and CAWI) that is jointly carried out by the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The aim of the study is to capture the diversity of social cohesion in Germany from multiple perspectives, particularly regarding the extent to ...
2024,
(OSF Preprints)
| Jean-Yves Gerlitz, Julian B. Axenfeld, Carina Cornesse, Olaf Groh-Samberg, Martin Kroh, Holger Lengfeld, Stefan Liebig, Lara Minkus, Jost Reinecke, David Richter, Nils Teichler, Richard Traunmüller, Sabine Zinn
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Lifespan psychological and life course sociological research have long shown that spousal bereavement constitutes one of the most stressful life events in older adulthood that is often associated with marked declines in well-being. It is an open question though whether and how the well-being implications of spousal loss have changed over the past decades. To do so, we used multi-year within-person ...
In:
European Journal of Personality
(Online First) (2025),
| Urmimala Ghose, Michael D. Krämer, David Richter, Gert G. Wagner, Frank J. Infurna, Nilam Ram, Denis Gerstorf
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This paper aims at providing new evidence about the link between personal and functional distribution and top-shares composition. We apply a novel class scheme based on two key features of contemporary capitalism i.e., individuals/households receiving multiple types of incomes, and the role of managers. The empirical application in Germany, Spain, and Italy over the period 2000–2017 reveals two main ...
In:
The Journal of Economic Inequality
(online first) (2024),
| Luca Giangregorio, Davide Villani
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In 2015–16, Germany experienced a rapid and controversial increase in refugees that varied substantially across German districts. This increase provides unique leverage for analyzing how fractionalization, threat, and contact shape the consequences of immigration and ethnolinguistic heterogeneity. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel and local district-level administrative data on refugee shares, ...
In:
American Journal of Sociology
130 (2024), 3, 725-763
| Marco Giesselmann, David Brady, Tabea Naujoks
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To obtain a more complete understanding of the persisting gender earnings gap in Germany, this paper investigates both the cross-sectional and lifetime dimension of gender inequalities. Based on a dynamic microsimulation model, we analyse how gender differences accumulate over work lives to examine the lifetime dimension of the gender gap. We estimate an average gender gap in lifetime earnings of 51.5 ...
In:
LABOUR
38 (2024), 425-474
| Rick Glaubitz, Astrid Harnack-Eber, Miriam Wetter
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The transition to parenthood represents a turning point shaping couples’ arrangements for paid work and housework. Previous studies often examined these changes in isolation, rather than as interrelated trajectories reflecting diverse models of family division of labor. Drawing on data from different-sex couples from the 1984–2019 Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the 1984–2020 German Socio-Economic ...
In:
Advances in Life Course Research
60 (2024), 100611
| Wen Fan
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This paper examines the effects of the 2013 flood disaster in East Germany on subjective wellbeing. Merging geo-spatial flood data with longitudinal data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we use a panel event study design for the analysis. Our results show that those affected by the flood report a significant life satisfaction drop of 0.17 points on an 11-point scale, which is equivalent to a 2.5% ...
DIW Berlin,
2024,
| Sachintha Fernando, Katharina Kolb, Christoph Wunder
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Previous research finds that recent immigrants are healthier than the native-born, while more established immigrants exhibit worse health, suggesting a process of unhealthy assimilation. However, previous literature is mostly based on cross-sectional data or on longitudinal analyses similarly failing to disentangle individual-level variation from between-individual confounding. Moreover, previous longitudinal ...
In:
Social Science & Medicine
351 (2024), June 2024, 116976
| Alessandro Ferrara, Carla Grindel, Claudia Brunori