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The energy price 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 ...
In:
Energy Policy
213 (2026), 115145
| Sophie M. Behr, Merve Kucuk, Maximilian Longmuir, Karsten Neuhoff
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Haushaltseinkommen sind eine Kerndimension sozialer Ungleichheit. Sie prägen nicht nur weitgehend den Lebensstandard einer Person, sie sind auch auf vielfältige Art und Weise mit ihrem subjektiven Wohlbefinden und ihren Einstellungen verknüpft. Ein Zusammenhang der eigenen Einkommensposition mit der Zustimmung zum demokratischen System liegt deshalb nahe. Bislang gibt es allerdings nur wenige Studien, ...
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KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
78 (2026), 261–296
| Jan Brülle, Dorothee Spannagel
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While there is some evidence for changes in personality traits, life satisfaction, and self-esteem as a function of life events, effects have been small and inconsistent across studies. In this preregistered meta-analysis, we summarize the available evidence on personality change in response to life events using data from 44 studies, including 89 samples with a total of 121,187 participants. Results ...
In:
European Journal of Personality
38 (2024), 3, 544–568
| Janina Larissa Bühler, Ulrich Orth, Wiebke Bleidorn, Elisa Weber, André Kretzschmar, Louisa Scheling, Christopher J. Hopwood
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Cross-country employment differences are concentrated among women, youth, and older individuals. In this paper, we estimate employment, unemployment and labor-force participation flows by age and gender and study their contributions to aggregate employment differences across a large panel of European countries. Employment outflows are the main source of employment variation for prime-age men, whereas ...
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Journal of Monetary Economics
159 (2026), 103929
| Jonathan Créchet, Etienne Lalé, Linas Tarasonis
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Die Erhöhung des Mindestlohns auf 12 Euro im Oktober 2022 veränderte die Lohnverteilung spürbar. Der Effekt auf die Einkommensarmut blieb aber gering. Die Armutsgefährdungsquote der Bevölkerung stieg auf Grundlage der Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels von 2022 auf 2023 leicht auf 16,3 Prozent, bei den Beschäftigten blieb sie mit 8,2 Prozent (2023) nahezu stabil. Betrachtet man nur die Personen, ...
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IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen Wirtschaftsforschung
53 (2026), 1, 3–26
| Lennart Eckle, Christoph Schröder
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The present research examines whether and how well-documented historical changes in resource availability, social embedding, technology, and social norms also manifest in control beliefs?a key psychological marker of individual health and well-being. Drawing on longitudinal data from five waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (N = 42,158) spanning over 20 years, we analyzed control belief trajectories ...
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European Journal of Personality
(2026), 08902070261454669
| Theresa M. Entringer, Laura Buchinger, Jutta Heckhausen, Nilam Ram, Denis Gerstorf
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Extensive evidence suggests that war-related trauma negatively affects health, yet its long-term and transgenerational effects on psychological and physical adjustment remain poorly understood. This study examines whether individuals who experienced greater war exposure in early childhood—specifically variation in bombardment intensity across German municipalities during the Second World War—show lower, ...
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
131 (2026), 2, 355–379
| Theresa M. Entringer, Christoph Halbmeier, Laura Buchinger, Anne K. Reitz
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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 ...
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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