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In this study, we focus on the evolution of refugees’ well-being in the first years after their arrival in Germany. In contrast to other immigrants (e.g., labor migrants), refugees experience higher risks of unexpected and traumatic events and insecurity before and during their migration and face various legal and structural barriers in the receiving country. We contribute to the existing literature ...
In:
Frontiers in Sociology
6 (2021), 140, 693518
| Elena Ambrosetti, Hans Dietrich, Yuliya Kosyakova, Alexander Patzina
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This paper describes the ifo Tax and Transfer Behavioral Microsimulation Model (ifo-MSM-TTL), a policy microsimulation model for Germany. The model uses household microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel and firm data from the German Linked Employer-Employee Dataset. This microsimulation model consists of three components: First, a static module simulates the effects of a tax-benefit reform on ...
Munich:
ifo Institut,
2020,
(ifo Working Paper No. 335)
| Maximilian Blömer, Andreas Peichl
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One of the main drivers of gender inequality is the unequal distribution of paid work between men and women, in particular, after the birth of a child. In this study, we examine how a man’s employment flexibility, specifically his weekly hours of employment and schedule autonomy, influence his female partner’s return to employment after the birth of a first child using the German Socio-Economic Panel. ...
In:
European Sociological Review
37 (2021), 4, 659-672
| Sandra Buchler, Katharina Lutz
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Reappraisal and mindfulness represent two fundamentally different but interconnected ways of dealing with one’s emotions: whereas reappraisal is aimed at changing one’s thoughts and emotions, mindfulness is aimed at not immediately changing, but appreciating them. Despite this difference, prior research has shown that both are beneficial for one’s affective well-being. However, research on the spontaneous ...
In:
Affective Science
4 (2023), 2, 260-274
| Mario Wenzel, Elisabeth S. Blanke, Zarah Rowland, Annette Brose
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The relationship between income inequality and happiness is central to a host of welfare policies. If higher income inequality puts people down, advocating for income redistribution from the rich to the poor could make society happier. We show, however, that this popular consensus on the relationship’s direction is rather absent in the academic literature. Based on the 868 observations col- lected ...
2021,
| Lucie Kamenická
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Housing costs have been increasing rapidly in Germany in recent years. Given the importance of housing for the elderly, one may expect many to be forced to dedicate ever-larger shares of their income to housing costs. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we examine how changes in housing costs between 1996 and 2017 have affected income poverty among Germany?s over-65s. ...
In:
Housing Studies
38 (2023), 7, 1220-1238
| Alberto Lozano Alcántara, Claudia Vogel
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Repeated experiences and activities drive personality development. Leisure activities are among the daily routines that may elicit personality change. Yet despite the important role they play in daily life, little is known about their prospective effects on personality traits and vice versa. The objective of this study was to examine the extent to which within-person changes in leisure activities lead ...
In:
Collabra: Psychology
7 (2021), 1, 23473
| Julia Sander, Paul Schumann, David Richter, Jule Specht
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Does technological change fuel political disruption? Drawing on fine-grained labor market data from Germany, this paper examines how technological change affects regional electorates. We first show that the well-known decline in manufacturing and routine jobs in regions with higher robot adoption or investment in information and communication technology (ICT) was more than compensated by parallel employment ...
In:
Political Science Research and Methods
12 (2024), 1, 94-112
| Nikolas Schöll, Thomas Kurer
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In his seminal contribution, Baumol (1990) proposes that the direction of entrepreneurial effort towards its productive (e.g., start-up activity) or unproductive (e.g., rent-seeking) use in a society depends on institutions or the “rules of the game”. We focus on an important micro-foundation of Baumol's theory namely that certain individuals change the direction of entrepreneurial efforts with ...
In:
Journal of Business Venturing
37 (2022), 5, 106246
| Alina Sorgner, Michael Wyrwich
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Using data from a new survey we designed for the Innovation Sample of the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), we document the relationship between marital sorting and intra-household decision-making, with a focus on consumption allocations and employment changes due to having children. Our rst main nding is that most households in our sample (72%) split private consumption equally between partners, ...
2021,
(Working Paper)
| Paula Calvo, Ilse Lindenlaub, Lindsey Uniat