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Taxing fairly or failing badly? Reduced VAT rates and redistribution

The application of reduced VAT rates in the EU generally aims to alleviate the regressivity of consumption taxation. However, while these measures generate redistribution across income groups, they also do so within income groups, leading to arbitrary redistribution among households with similar incomes but different consumption patterns. Using the Analysis of Gini (ANOGI) decomposition, we evaluate ...

Temporary Employment and First Births: A Path Analysis of the Underlying Mechanisms Using Australian and German Panel Data

In many countries, temporary work (including fixed-term and casual employment contracts) is negatively associated with fertility. Yet, the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain poorly understood. This study investigates several mediating pathways (wages, financial satisfaction, short tenure, and subjective job insecurity) through which temporary work influences the transition to first birth ...

Examining interindividual differences in unemployment-related changes in subjective well-being: The role of psychological well-being and re-employment expectations

This study examined whether the six trait-like dimensions of psychological well-being (e.g., autonomy and environmental mastery) moderate the effects of unemployment on various facets of subjective well-being (i.e., life satisfaction, satisfaction with life domains, and experienced mood). Further, re-employment expectations during unemployment were investigated as a moderator in this context. The study ...

Support for everyone or selection of some? Self-selection and assignment into a large-scale refugee mentoring program in Germany

Mentoring has become a popular support strategy for recently arrived immigrants and refugees, offering access to valuable information and resources. However, little is known about selection processes into mentoring programs—who chooses to enrol, who receives support, and whether these patterns are systematic. Such selection affects not only program evaluations but also broader issues of refugee integration ...

Impacts of Different Measures of Health on Labor Market Exit

Pandemic-Ready Data: Linking the Socio-Economic Panel with Administrative Health Records

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed significant weaknesses in Germany’s ability to generate timely, equity-sensitive evidence at the household level. While national surveillance systems produced daily counts of confirmed cases, hospitalisations, and deaths, they offered little insight into the social and economic conditions shaping the spread and impact of the virus. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), ...

Consolidated Trajectories? Social Class and Earnings Growth over the Life Course

What kind of earnings mobility regime defines our society? Are individuals’ earnings trajectories primarily shaped by their social class position, or do trajectories vary within them? These unresolved questions lie at the heart of debates on social class and labor market rewards. To address them, we leverage employment relations theory and data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We use mixed effects ...

Intra-couple gaps in retirees’ financial resources: their extent and predictors across Eastern and Western Germany

Intra-couple disparities in economic resources are often downplayed, yet they substantially affect power dynamics, marital satisfaction, and financial well-being during the marriage and have lasting economic consequences in the event of separation. With the growing privatization of old-age security amidst population aging and welfare cuts, understanding economic intra-couple disparities among retired ...

Trajectories of health-related quality of life across age cohorts: A longitudinal analysis of the German population over 16 years

Background Understanding the trajectories of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) across different age cohorts and sociodemographic factors is crucial for promoting healthy aging. This study aims to examine the course of physical and mental HRQoL over a 16-year period in a nationwide sample of the German population. Methods Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel spanning from 2002 to 2018 (N = 4111; ...

What factors contributed to mental well-being trajectories during the COVID-19 pandemic? A latent growth and multiple predictor analysis among German adults from 2015 to 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic constituted a global stressor confronting people with various challenges. We aimed to explore mental well-being trajectories from before (2015–2019) and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2021) and investigate the contribution of potentially protective factors to mental well-being response patterns. We analyzed data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the collaborative ...