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In 2001, Germany abolished public occupational disability insurance (ODI)—the second tier of its public DI system—for cohorts born after 1960. Using administrative data, we first document that, in the long run, overall DI inflows declined by roughly one-third. Second, using representative survey data, we document at best modest ODI insurance take-up responses in the private individual, risk-rated market, ...
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The Review of Economics and Statistics
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2026-05-14]
| Yaming Cao, Björn Fischer-Weckemann, Johannes Geyer, Nicolas Ziebarth
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We investigate the role of industrial relations for working from home during and after the COVID-19 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 ...
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Labour
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2026-07-09]
| Laszlo Goerke, Markus M. Grabka, Viola Hilbert, Yue Huang
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Optical document recognition has made great progress in recent years. However, large historical tables still pose substantial challenges because of poor scan quality, irregular layouts, and the sheer number of table cells. Table transcription tools perform well on small tables but struggle with large ones. Most publications report transcription quality on benchmark data sets. From a practical perspective, ...
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Applied Sciences
16 (2026), 14, 7327, 18 S.
| Luzian Uihlein, Norbert Fischer, Alexander Hartelt, Tobias Gebel, Frank Puppe
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In this paper, I examine behavioral responses to inheritance and gift taxes using administrative microdata from Brazil, in a context where taxpayers knew three months in advance that tax rates would increase. I document four findings. First, gifts surge by about 300% just before the reform takes effect. Second, estate filings fall by 30%, largely because small estates become exempt. Third, taxable ...
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Journal of Public Economics
261 (2026), 105720, 13 S.
| Gedeão Locks
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This paper examines the gaps in Germany’s data infrastructure for responding to crises, as revealed during COVID-19, and argues that linking the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with administrative health records would strengthen the country’s ability to generate equity-sensitive evidence during future health-related crises. Drawing on evidence from the RKI-SOEP study, we illustrate the added value of combining ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
(2026), im Ersch.[online first: 2026-07-13]
| Alexander Lepe, Ingo Kolodziej, Sabine Zinn
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This article examines origin- and gender-based disparities in labourmarket integration of refugees in Germany, comparing Ukrainian refugees with refugees from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Using longitudinal data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Survey and the IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP Ukrainian Refugee Survey, we trace labour-force participation (LFP) and employment rates during the first three ...
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2026-05-10]
| Jörg Hartmann, Yuliya Kosyakova
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This study investigates the R&D behavior of the world’s top R&D investors during the Great Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 crisis. Focusing on the resilience of corporate R&D activities, we explore two dimensions: stability and adaptability. Using two large datasets on the world’s leading R&D-investing companies covering the periods 2004–2010 and 2015–2021, thus including both crises, our analysis ...
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Journal of Industrial and Business Economics
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2026-06-19]
| Heike Belitz, Anna Lejpras
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Background: To date, little is known about the mental health of Ukrainian refugees living in Germany. Therefore, this study aims to describe the prevalence of depressive (DS) and anxiety symptoms (AS) among refugees from Ukraine, identify relevant associated factors, and compare the prevalence of psychological distress across different groups of origin. Methods: The analyses are based on data from ...
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Journal of Health Monitoring
11 (2026), 10, 13 S.
| Susanne Bartig, Stefan Liebig, Carmen Koschollek, Adriana Rocío Cardozo Silva, Louise Biddle
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Hintergrund: Bislang ist wenig über die psychische Gesundheit von geflüchteten Menschen aus der Ukraine in Deutschland bekannt. Ziel ist es daher, das Vorliegen einer depressiven (DS) und Angstsymptomatik (AS) bei geflüchteten Menschen aus der Ukraine zu beschreiben, relevante Einflussfaktoren zu identifizieren und die Prävalenzen psychischer Belastungen mit anderen Herkunftsgruppen zu vergleichen. ...
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Journal of Health Monitoring
11 (2026), 10, 14 S.
| Susanne Bartig, Stefan Liebig, Carmen Koschollek, Adriana Rocío Cardozo Silva, Louise Biddle
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An influential survey by Joshua Knobe (2003) indicates that the cognitive process ascribing intentionality to an agent is mediated by the perceived moral worth of the action. To assess the external validity of the finding and to obtain more precise estimates of effect sizes, the present study replicates this canonical experiment with a large scale random sample of the German population (N = 2,295). ...
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Philosophical Psychology
(2026), im Ersch.[online first: 2026-06-03]
| Christoph Schmidt-Petri, Daniel Labarca-Pinto, Carsten Schröder
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Despite the rise in global refugee migration, probability panels surveying refugees remain rare. The German IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees, conducted annually since 2016, provides valuable panel data for research. In 2023, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a sample of Ukrainian refugees was added, along with a refreshment sample of refugees from other countries. This paper examines household-, ...
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Survey Methods : Insights from the Field
(2026), im Ersch. [online first. 2026-06-29]
| Johannes Schütt, Elena Sommer
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Objectives Cumulative advantage is a central concept in life course research. Prior research has primarily focused on one outcome domain, overlooking the possibility that cumulative advantage could extend into other domains–what we refer to as diffusion of cumulative advantage. We build on and extend cumulative inequality theory to conceptualize diffusion and apply it to wealth and health, two domains ...
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The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
(2026), im Ersch. [online first:2026-06-27]
| Anastasia Lam, Philipp M. Lersch
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Deutschlands massiv steigende Verteidigungsausgaben wären effizienter eingesetzt, wenn die Rüstungsgüter innerhalb Europas stärker vereinheitlicht würden. Eine EU-weite Lösung scheint derzeit unrealistisch. Abkommen für einzelne Produkte, wie Kampfflugzeuge, bleiben zwar wichtig, aber punktuell. Eine Zwischenlösung könnte die enge Kooperation einiger Länder sein, um die Beschaffung und Produktion von ...
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Wirtschaftsdienst
106 (2026), 6, S. 459-464
| Lukas Menkhoff
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This paper introduces the Open Data Format (ODF), a non-proprietary, metadata-enriched, and zipcompressed data format for tabular data alongside statistical software packages. It embeds structured, multilingual metadata directly within the data file, using the well-established DDI-Codebook standard (DDI Alliance, 2014), and enables access to both data and documentation within common statistical environments. ...
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IASSIST Quarterly
50 (2026), 2, S. 1-14
| Tom Hartl, Xiaoyao Han, Knut Wenzig
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Angesichts von Arbeitskräfteengpässen wird häufig gefordert, die Erwerbstätigkeit von Frauen weiter zu stärken. Gleichzeitig arbeiten insbesondere Mütter häufig weniger, als sie möchten, was darauf hindeutet, dass Betreuungsverpflichtungen die Realisierung des gewünschten Erwerbsarbeitsumfangs verhindern. Ein Baustein zur Lösung dieses Vereinbarkeitsproblems könnte mehr Flexibilität im Sinne der Beschäftigten ...
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WSI-Mitteilungen
79 (2026), 3, S. 248-255
| Mattis Beckmannshagen, Annika Sperling
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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), im Ersch. [online first: 2026-06-01]
| Theresa M. Entringer, Laura Buchinger, Jutta Heckhausen, Nilam Ram, Denis Gerstorf
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Germany is tasked with ensuring the safe and final storage of high-level radioactive waste in a deep geological repository. Since 2022, the ambitious target year of 2031 to identify a suitable location for such a site has been deferred by most public actors. The target year was pushed back by several decades to 2046 or even 2068, consequently delaying the completion of all waste management activities ...
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Energy Policy
216 (2026), 115388, 15 S.
| Mahdi Awawda, Alexander Wimmers
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This study investigates whether having daughters impacts political preferences and whether this effect varies across European countries. We estimate effect sizes for 39 countries in the European Social Survey (n = 156,236) and aggregate estimates using random-effects meta-analysis, following a preregistered analysis plan. We find significant evidence that having daughters increases the preference for ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
248 (2026), 107641, 14 S.
| Yifan Yang, Magnus Johannesson, Anna Dreber, Frank Fossen, Levent Neyse, Felix Holzmeister
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To ensure security of supply in the power sector, many countries are considering capacity mechanisms. Simultaneously, the expansion of variable renewables increases the need for power sector flexibility, with promising options on the demand side. We analyze how a centralized capacity market and an advanced reliability reserve with a moderately high activation price affect demand-side flexibility investments ...
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iScience
29 (2026), 6, 116176, 15 S.
| Franziska Klaucke, Karsten Neuhoff, Alexander Roth, Wolf-Peter Schill, Leon Stolle
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Housing markets are affected by a wide variety of factors. Among them, governmental regulations play an important role. Besides desired effects, all these policies exert a number of side effects, even offsetting the desired effects. In addition, different policies can cancel out each other. Therefore, it is important to be aware of the effects of individual policies and the composite effects resulting ...
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Journal of Housing Economics
73 (2026), 102155, 15 S.
| Konstantin A. Kholodilin