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New paper accepted in Soziale Welt! In this research note, I provide some practical guidelines for researchers investigation gender differences what one needs to think about in terms of sample selection and empirical specification used and its implications for the findings.

Guter und ausführlicher Beitrag von Deutschlandfunk zu Minijobs, zu dem ich auch ein paar Worte beisteuern durfte: www.deutschlandfunk.de/minijobs-war...

This paper by @savolainen.bsky.social is very interesting! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In einer Grafik aktuell (@iabnews.bsky.social) zeigen Florian Zimmermann und ich, dass Betriebe mit Betriebs- oder Personalräten im Durchschnitt häufiger familienfreundliche Maßnahmen anbieten: iab-forum.de/graphs/in-be...

In addition to wellbeing our (@mcollischon.bsky.social) research also shows that the pandemic affected social trust. doi.org/10.1177/2378... In ongoing work, we also show how wage inequality and refugee migration in the context of multiple crises affect trust.

COVID-19 and well-being🧵 In a series of papers, colleagues and show that the COVID-19 pandemic had a negative effect on mental health and subjective well-being. Well-being declines in esp. for young people in the school-to-work-transition and for women with care responsibilities.

Want to move beyond “correlation ≠ causation”? Learn how to design, estimate, and interpret causal effects properly with @mcollischon.bsky.social & Florian! Master modern causal tools like DiD, IVs, matching, fixed effects & more — with hands-on Stata sessions. More Info ➡️ t1p.de/GSS25-C4

Ab in den Druck!🎉 Mein Buch „Wo wir wie wählen: Politische Muster in Deutschlands Nachbarschaften“ ab 18.06. bei Campus Eine politische Landkarte🇩🇪 basierend auf Wahldaten, Sozialstruktur & Eindrücken vor Ort Jetzt vorbestellen—in eurer Lieblingsbuchhandlung oder hier www.campus.de/buecher-camp...

New paper with Karolin Hiesinger and Laura Pohlan (both @iabnews.bsky.social) out now in Socio-Economic Review (@sasemeeting.bsky.social )! We investigate how disability onset affects labor market trajectories 1/10

In einer Grafik aktuell (@iabnews.bsky.social) zeige ich die Sätze des Elterngeldes inlfationsbereinigt im Vergleich zu anderen Sozialleistungen. Das Elterngeld wurde seit Einführung nicht erhöht; der Mindest- und Höchsatz haben real seitdem 27% an Wert verloren: www.iab-forum.de/graphs/elter...

Zum Equal Pay Day am 7.3 durfte ich ein Interview mit Franken Fernsehen führen und ein paar Worte zu Geschlechterungleichheit auf dem Arbeitsmarkt sagen www.frankenfernsehen.tv/mediathek/vi...

New paper with Kamila Cygan-Rehm (@tudresden.bsky.social) and Regina T. Riphahn (@fauwiso.bsky.social) out now in Socio-Economic Review (@sasemeeting.bsky.social)! We investigate how Minijobs (subisidized small jobs) affect motherhood penalties in the long run 1/13

Work-Net International: A new era for work and employment research 🔎 An event celebrating the launch of @worknetint.bsky.social, a groundbreaking global network advancing research on work and employment, will take place on 21 January. Learn more: ow.ly/EuEq50UHBah @workequalities.bsky.social

New paper with @mcollischon.bsky.social, Rasmus Hoffmann and Maksym Obrizan out now in @plosone.org! We investigate the mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic 1/n

✨ #IZAdventCalendar 2️⃣2️⃣ 🎁 Today's insight: Taking a Minijob after childbirth can lead to unintended long-term setbacks in mothers' labor market outcomes. Discover the findings from a new paper by @mcollischon.bsky.social et al. 👇 newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/r...

Just re-upping this #econsky: I currently have more mentors than mentees/students (can probably match another 10-11 students from LMICs who would like feedback on a research paper from a senior scholar.) Fill out the form here if interested! forms.gle/ekvvoEKBLYQM...

Looking forward to our new project (funded by @boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social) that tries to explain the increasing regional divide in trust between Eastern rural parts of Germany and the rest of Germany. Together with @mcollischon.bsky.social and Felix Rahberger. We use panel data from the IAB.

Let’s goooooooo! www.economist.com/interactive/...

🆕📝 out in Social Forces with D. Grunow: Why are partners in 🇩🇪similar in their political party preference? We find: - Political similarity largely NOT explained by matching on education, religiosity etc - Partners align politically over time 🗺 #socsky @sfjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

Wie polarisiert ist unsere Gesellschaft wirklich? Auf der #rp24 zeigte der Soziologe @steffenmau.bsky.social (@humboldtuni.bsky.social), wo die Konfliktlinien liegen – und dass wir uns in vielen Punkten überraschend einig sind. Das ganze Video findet ihr hier 🎦 youtu.be/xD4g4LWO52Q

🚨New paper with Andreas Eberl and Tobias Wolbring @tobiaswolbring.bsky.social (@fauwiso.bsky.social) out now in Advances in Life Course Research! We investigate how children moving out affects parental life satisfaction. doi.org/10.1016/j.al... A thread 1/n

Really interesting to revisit what VP-elect JD Vance wrote about Donald Trump in @theatlantic.bsky.social before the 2016 election www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

🚨@jacquelinekroh.bsky.social, @patzinaalex.bsky.social and I are editing a special issue of Social Indicators Research. The deadline for sumissions is 30 June. We are looking forward to your submissions! link.springer.com/collections/...

Zusammen mit @jepatste.bsky.social , Markus Wolf und Joachim Wolff haben wir die Einstellungen zu Sanktionen im Grundsicherungsbezug untersucht, der Beitrag ist heute im IAB Forum erschienen 👇 www.iab-forum.de/eine-mehrhei...

Had to think of this graph again due to the recent elections in Argentina. In 1960, Argentina had a GDP per capita comparable to European countries, but practically stopped growing in 1970.

For those interested, the keynotes and panels of the European Economic Association (#EEA) conference in Barcelona this year can be watched here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

It is a shame that @statsfeed.bsky.social never provides sources for the interesting statistics, why not, @statsfeed.bsky.social ?