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Social class origin is closely linked to individuals' labor market outcomes. This study examines the class ceiling—the earnings disadvantage that those from lower-class origins experience within higher-class occupations. We propose that job task segregation, i.e., the non-random selection into different task profiles within granular occupations, contributes to the class ceiling. We study these ...
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Social Science Research
139 (2026), 103406
| Wiebke Schulz, Philipp M. Lersch
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This article examines how (un-)certainty in settlement intentions affects the socio-economic integration of Ukrainian refugees in Germany, using longitudinal data from the IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP survey. Applying an instrumental variable approach, we estimate the effects of permanent, temporary, and uncertain settlement intentions on employment, employment aspirations, and host-country language proficiency. ...
In:
Work, Employment and Society
(online first) (2026),
| Davit Adunts, Kseniia Gatskova, Yuliya Kosyakova, Silvia Schwanhäuser
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Individuals’ preferences for immediate gratification versus their ability to postpone it, i.e., time preferences, might be related to their marginal utility or disutility stemming from an increase in the income of comparable others, i.e., relative concerns. We argue that while an increase in others’ income might lead to a higher level of marginal disutility for those seeking immediate gratification, ...
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Social Indicators Research
183 (2026), 1, 9
| Alpaslan Akay, Nur Banu Kartal
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German history over the past 125 years has been turbulent. Marked by two world wars, revolutions and major regime changes, as well as a hyperinflation and three currency reforms, expropriations and territorial divisions, it comprises extreme shocks to study the role of historical events, taxation, asset price changes, portfolio heterogeneity in affecting the wealth distribution in the long run. Combining ...
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Journal of the European Economic Association
(2026),
| Thilo N H Albers, Charlotte Bartels, Moritz Schularick
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While refugee inflows into Germany have typically been relatively moderate in recent decades, specific exogenous political events such as the Yugoslav civil war in the early 1990s, the intensifying of the Syrian civil war around 2015, and the war in Ukraine since 2022, have generated substantial spikes in refugee arrivals, affecting the receiving society in multiple ways. This study examines the possible ...
In:
Genus
82 (2026), 1, 6
| Elena Ambrosetti, Hans Dietrich
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This study examines whether advances in technology and shifts in the occupational structure have enhanced women's position within the labour market. It answers the following research questions: First, how has the occupational employment structure evolved over the last decades, and how is this related to gender gaps? Second, which factors explain the gender gap and its narrowing over time?We use ...
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International Journal of Manpower
47 (2026), 2, 403–422
| Ronald Bachmann, Myrielle Gonschor
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Eine aktuelle Analyse des German Social Cohesion Panel (SCP) untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen regionalen Erfolgen der AfD und Sympathien gegenüber gesellschaftlichen Gruppen. Dabei zeigt sich deutlich: In Wahlkreisen mit hohem AfD-Stimmenanteil unterscheiden Menschen in ihren Sympathiebewertungen stärker zwischen verschiedenen kulturellen, regionalen oder sozio-demographischen Gruppen. Ein starkes ...
In:
FGZ Datenmonitor, 2025-02-17
(2025),
| Nils Teichler, Jean-Yves Gerlitz, Olaf Groh-Samberg, Anne Speer, Richard Traunmüller, Julian B. Axenfeld, Carina Cornesse
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Educational systems are dynamic. They shape human capital, technological and societal progress, and also economic growth. Higher education, in particular, fosters innovation, with varying fields of study contributing differently to this process. Yet, despite its importance, no dataset has previously documented the evolution of academic fields across higher education institutions in a specific country. ...
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Scientific Data
12 (2025), 1, 1626
| Boris Thome, Friederike Hertweck, Serife Yasar, Lukas Jonas, Stefan Conrad
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The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) is one of the world’s longest-running household panel studies, containing rich longitudinal data spanning over four decades. However, the complexity and scale of SOEP data present significant challenges for researchers in data discovery and exploration. This paper presents a prototype Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system designed to provide conversational ...
Zenodo:
KonsortSWD,
2025,
(Working Paper | 14)
| Paylag Torossian, Jan Goebel, Knut Wenzig
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With the growing complexity of knowledge production, social science must accelerate and open up to maintain explanatory power and responsiveness. This goal requires redesigning the front end of the research to build an open and expandable knowledge infrastructure that stimulates broad collaborations, enables breaking down inertia and path dependencies of conventional approaches, and boosts discovery ...
In:
Quality & Quantity
59 (2025), 2, 767–795
| Konrad Turek