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Young people with disability face significant barriers to stable employment. Yet, little is known about how early labor market experiences shape their long-term mental health. This study examines associations between early career insecurity and subsequent mental health trajectories, focusing on disability status as a key axis of inequality. We use nationally representative longitudinal data from the ...
In:
SSM - Population Health
34 (2026),
| Sophia Fauser, Irma Mooi-Reci, Marissa Shields, Zoe Aitken, Anne Kavanagh
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The late 1980s and 1990s marked a transformative period in Germany, characterised by rapid structural change and labour market disruptions in the industrial sector. In this context, continuing vocational education and training (CVET) was widely promoted as a policy tool to support workers in adapting and to mitigate risks of unemployment. Despite these expectations, the effectiveness of CVET in reducing ...
In:
Journal of Adult and Continuing Education
(online first) (2026),
| Jonas Fey
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We investigate the role of industrial relations for working from home during and after the COVID19 pandemic in Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 2020 to 2023 and a special COVID sample (SOEP-CoV) for 2020 and 2021, we examine how collective bargaining and plant-level co-determination are associated with the incidence and frequency of working from home. Controlling ...
Trier:
University of Trier, Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union (IAAEU),
2026,
(IAAEU Discussion Paper Series in Economics No. 04/2026)
| Laszlo Goerke, Markus M. Grabka, Viola Hilbert, Yue Huang
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More than a decade ago, refugee immigration prominently returned to Europe’s political agendas, sparking interest in the factors shaping refugees’ economic and societal participation. Adopting a life course perspective, this study addresses the conflicting views in sociology of migration on the importance of pre-migration capital for refugees’ post-migration trajectories. While some argue that human ...
In:
Advances in Life Course Research
68 (2026), 100741
| Lidwina Gundacker
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This article examines origin- and gender-based disparities in labour-market integration of refugees in Germany, comparing Ukrainian refugees with refugees from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Using longitudinal data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Survey and the IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP Ukrainian Refugee Survey, we trace labour-force participation (LFP) and employment rates during the first ...
In:
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
(2026), 1–26
| Jörg Hartmann, Yuliya Kosyakova
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This study investigates regional differences in pay fairness perceptions among employees in eastern and western Germany from 2009 to 2023. Using longitudinal data from the Socio-Economic Panel study, the analysis reveals substantial initial disparities: Employees in eastern Germany perceive their gross earnings as more unfair than employees in western Germany do. Over time, however, these regional ...
In:
KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
78 (2026), 2, 413–429
| Jule Adriaans, Carsten Sauer
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Objective: This article investigates for different cohorts how earnings inequalities evolve with the duration of cohabiting couples’ relationships and after childbirth. Background: Germany has undergone a paradigm shift in its family policies and so presents ideal contextual conditions to examine whether institutional change is reflected in a decrease in within-couple inequality overall and across ...
In:
Journal of Family Research
38 (2026), 309–329
| Martina Dieckhoff, Vanessa Gash, Antje Mertens, Laura Romeu-Gordo
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Social media usage by children and young people is an increasingly controversial topic. The focus is on risks, opportunities, and possible regulations. Politicians from all relevant parties are now open to a social media ban up to a certain age; the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs has set up a commission of experts. Based on a short survey in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), conducted in September ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
15 (2026), 10, 79–88
| Jörg Dollmann, Christian Hunkler, Nicolas Legewie, Julian Axenfeld, Andreas Franken, Felix von Heusinger
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We investigate the role of industrial relations for working from home during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 2020 to 2023 and a special COVID sample (SOEP-CoV) for 2020 and 2021, we examine how collective bargaining and plant-level co-determination are associated with the incidence and frequency of working from home. Controlling ...
In:
LABOUR
40 (2026), 3, 321–342
| Laszlo Goerke, Markus M. Grabka, Viola Hilbert, Yue Huang
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In Germany, employee absences due to illness rose sharply, particularly in 2022. Various sources argue that the introduction of the electronic certificate of incapacity for work (eAU) caused this. Official data previously did not include absences that were not reported to health insurance providers; since the introduction of the eAU, this is no longer the case. This gap does not exist in Socio-Economic ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
20/21 (2026), 167–174
| Markus Grabka, Oskar Breer