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This study investigates the impact of child-related absence from work on the income of working mothers and fathers, addressing a significant research gap in sociology and labour economics. While previous research has established that gender and parenthood significantly influence income levels, the consequences of caring for a sick child-a common and unpredictable responsibility-remain inadequately ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin; SOEP,
2025,
(SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 1219)
| Ayhan Adams, Katrin Golsch
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How do students’ earnings expectations differ by being the first in their family to attend university (FiF) and how do they affect field of study choice? We leverage unique survey and administrative data to document sizable gaps in expected earnings between FiF and non-FiF students. Our data can explain two-thirds of this gap, with the largest share attributable to field of study choice. We show that ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin; SOEP,
2025,
(SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 1221)
| Katharina Adler, Fabian Kosse, Markus Nagler, Johannes Rincke
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This paper investigates whether individuals’ relative (status or positional) concerns are associated with their transitions from paid employment or inactivity to self-employment. The conjecture is that stress and anxiety arising from socio-economic comparisons may be motivating factors for individuals to establish their own businesses. We examine this using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) dataset, ...
In:
Small Business Economics
(online first) (2025),
| Alpaslan Akay, Levent Yilmaz
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Overeducated workers are more productive and have higher wages in comparison to their adequately educated coworkers in the same jobs. However, they have lower wages than their similarly educated peers who are in correctly matched jobs. This study examines the hypotheses that overeducated workers sort into performance pay jobs as an adjustment mechanism and that performance pay enhances their wages. ...
In:
Education Economics
(online first) (2025), 1-21
| Mehrzad B. Baktash
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Transitioning into young adulthood often brings about significant changes in personality traits. However, the reasons behind these personality changes remain unclear. This study integrates insights from research on personality development and the psychology of social class to study how the construction of one’s social class identity in young adulthood might trigger changes in personality traits (i.e., ...
In:
Social Psychological and Personality Science
(online first) (2025),
| Anatolia Batruch, Manon A. van Scheppingen
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Von Sozialarbeiterinnen und Sozialarbeitern wird eine „armutsbewusste Haltung“ gefordert und ein mögliches „sozialpolitisches Mandat“ wird diskutiert. Unerforscht bleibt bislang, inwiefern Sozialarbeiterinnen und Sozialarbeiter eine staatliche Umverteilung und eine staatliche Armutsbekämpfung befürworten. Als bislang erste Studie vergleicht dieser Beitrag die Einstellungen der Berufsgruppe mit anderen ...
In:
Sozial Extra
49 (2025), 2, 147-153
| Jürgen Bauknecht, Jan A. Velimsky
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Earnings are often top-coded (right-censored) in administrative registers. The censoring threshold in the case of Germany is the limit value for social security contributions, leading to a substantial fraction of censoring: For example, about 12 % of male workers in West Germany are affected, rising to above 30 % for highly educated prime-aged workers. This missing right tail of the earnings distribution ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
(online first) (2025),
| Mattis Beckmannshagen, Johannes König, Isabella Retter, Christian Schluter, Carsten Schröder, Yogam Tchokni
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The energy crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine exposed the heightened vulnerability of low-income households to rising heating costs, particularly those in energy inefficient buildings. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this study examines the distributional impact of heating costs across income deciles and evaluates the effectiveness of policy interventions. We find ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2025,
(DIW Discussion Papers No. 2119)
| Sophie M. Behr, Merve Kucuk, Maximilian Longmuir, Karsten Neuhoff
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Evidence from intergenerational correlations and sibling correlations shows that intergenerational persistence in wealth is substantially large and similar in size compared to income persistence. The intergenerational persistence in wealth is partly due to the direct transfers of wealth from parents to children, which makes wealth unique compared to other resources such as education and income. Furthermore, ...
In:
Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, Jo Blanden, Jani Erola, Lindsey Macmillan ,
Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality
Edward Elgar Publishing
86-99
| Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, Jo Blanden, Jani Erola, Lindsey Macmillan, Philipp M. Lersch, Maximilian Longmuir, Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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Abstract As a consequence of increasing human-wildlife encounters, the associated potential for human-wildlife conflict rises. The dependency of conservation management actions on the acceptance or even the participation of people requires modern conservation strategies that take the human dimension of wildlife management into account. In the first place, conservationists therefore need to understand ...
In:
Conservation Science and Practice
2 (2020), 7, e212
| Sophia E. Kimmig, Danny Flemming, Joachim Kimmerle, Ulrike Cress, Miriam Brandt