Objective This article analyzes trends in the relationships among motherhood, employment,
and life satisfaction in Germany and regresses them on changing motherhood norms …

Objectives The widely acknowledged negative association between social isolation and
physical and mental health is commonly interpreted in terms of social causation and has …

Even three decades after the end of communism in Eastern Europe, there are still
observable differences in financial risk and time preferences compared to Western Europe …

Does the politico–economic system affect preferences for immigration? In this study, I show
that individuals exposed to life under state socialism have formed and persistently hold …

New media are an important resource for the political participation of marginalized groups.
However, there is still a lack of knowledge about the factors that influence whether this …

This paper investigates the link between non-standard employment (NSE) and the risk of
partnership dissolution, applying event history analysis to data from the German Socio …

Running RIF regressions to decompose wage differences along the distribution, this is the
first study documenting that worker-level variation in tasks has played a key role in the …

A key interest in labor economics is to understand quality differences between workers and
why technology helped some types of labor, while hurting others. Conventional methods rely …

This paper explores heterogeneous adoption of tasks using German worker-level survey
data on job activities. Running RIF regressions to decompose wage differences along the …