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In this paper, we ask whether the main cause of asylum migration, that is, violence in the home country, still affects the life satisfaction of refugees even after they reach a safe country. We combine individual-level survey data on refugees in Germany with country-level data on terror fatalities. The timing of the survey interviews generates exogenous variation in the intensity of recent terror activity ...
In:
World Development
146 (2021), 105562
| Sekou Keita, Paul Schewe
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Do life-course transitions in adulthood shape political orientations? One framework suggests that life events expose people to new information, allowing actors to assess their political beliefs and preferences in response to these social experiences. An alternative framework suggests that the link between one's life-course position and personal politics may be ambiguous, and early experiences ...
In:
Sociological Science
11 (2024), 907-933
| Turgut Keskintuerk
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Many countries rely on short-time work to prevent mass layoffs in economic crises. Despite serving to protect jobs, short-time work may trigger job insecurity perceptions, which may impair employee well-being. Moreover, past experiences of unemployment may increase susceptibility to job insecurity in response to short-time work. Drawing on Conservation of Resources (COR) Theory, Appraisal Theory and ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
25 (2024), 6, 72
| Katharina Klug, Claudia Bernhard-Oettel, Magnus Sverke
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Who makes it to the top? We use the leading, socio-economic survey in Germany supplemented by extensive data on the rich to answer this question. We identify the key predictors for belonging to the top 1 percent of income, wealth, and both distributions jointly. Although we consider many, only a few traits matter: Entrepreneurship and self-employment in conjunction with a sizable inheritance of company ...
In:
The Review of Income and Wealth
71 (2025), 2, e70015
| Johannes König, Christian Schluter, Carsten Schröder
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We analyze socioemotional skills’ role for destination-language proficiency among recent refugees in Germany. While socioemotional skills have been shown to predict educational outcomes, they have been overlooked for immigrants’ language acquisition. We extend a well-established model of destination-language proficiency and assume that socioemotional skills’ effects manifest through the channels of ...
London:
Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London,
2021,
(CReAM Discussion Paper Series No. 20/20)
| Yuliya Kosyakova
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Extending free movement of workers (FMW) to the new Member States from Central and Eastern Europe was one of the most controversial political decisions in the history of the European Union. In this article, we study how the introduction of FMW affected immigrants’ labor market integration in Germany. Using data from the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample,1 we show that the introduction of FMW was associated ...
In:
Migration Studies
9 (2021), 4, 1734-1762
| Yuliya Kosyakova, Herbert Brücker
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How does informal care affect caregivers’ well-being? Theories and existing research provide conflicting answers to this question, partly because the temporal processes and conditions under which different aspects of well-being are affected are unknown. Here, we used longitudinal data from Dutch, German, and Australian representative panels (281,884 observations, 28,663 caregivers) to examine theoretically ...
In:
Psychological Science
35 (2024), 12, 1382–1394
| Michael D. Krämer, Wiebke Bleidorn
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How do life events affect life satisfaction? Previous studies focused on a single event or separate analyses of several events. However, life events are often grouped non-randomly over the lifespan, occur in close succession, and are causally linked, raising the question of how to best analyze them jointly. Here, we used representative German data (SOEP; N = 40,121 individuals; n = 41,402 event occurrences) ...
In:
European Journal of Personality
39 (2025), 1, 3–23
| Michael D. Krämer, Julia M. Rohrer, Richard E. Lucas, David Richter
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This study examines how individuals develop distinct attitude patterns over the life course, with a particular focus on the role of educational attainment in shaping trajectories. It differentiates the effects of aging stemming from critical life events from age group differences resulting from observing different people at various life stages (i.e., compositional effects). I formulate propositions ...
2024,
(SocArXiv Papers)
| Fabian Kratz
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Education is perhaps the most generally used independent variable in the fields of public opinion and vote choice. Yet the extent to which a person is educated is just one way in which education may affect political beliefs and behavior. In this article, we suggest that the substantive field of education has an independent and important role to play over and above level. Using cross-national evidence ...
In:
American Political Science Review
119 (2024), 2, 794-811
| Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Jonne Kamphorst