I’m very happy to share that my first paper has been accepted for publication 🎉
Together with my great co-author Nayeon Lim we look at early public childcare in Germany.
More details and the paper link below 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Overall, our findings imply that even policies that substantially reduce income inequality may only have limited effects on strengthening social cohesion. The paper is available (OA) here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 5/End of Thread
This finding holds for both East and West Germany 4/n
We find that, even though real wages increased dramatically for the group below the minimum wage threshold, institutional trust is not significantly correlated with this wage increase 3/n
We hypothesize that large real wage increases, as occurred in Germany between 2019 to 2023 for the group of low-wage workers due to a substantial minimum wage hike of ~20%, should increase institutional trust. We investigate this hypothesis using data from PASS (@iabnews.bsky.social) 2/n
New paper with Alexander Patzina (@patzinaalex.bsky.social) out now in @actasociologica.bsky.social! We investigate the connection between wages and institutional trust in Germany between 2019 and 2023 1/n
On a black background of space, a blue and white Earth just before 'setting' behind the Moon, in foreground, seen from Artemis II, 6 April 2026
Totality seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, revealing a view few humans have ever witnessed, a dark disc surrounded by a pale solar corona.
✅ #Artemis II update: 'Earthset', 6 April 2026, and 'totality', 7 April, seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, a view few humans have ever witnessed (pics: NASA)
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🚨: NASA just dropped a full disk image of Earth taken by Artemis II 🤯
Overall, our results show that WFH is neither beneficial nor harmful for employees’ well-being, in contrast to some anecdotal evidence. The paper is available (OA) here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 7/End of Thread
We also investigate measures of job quality, i.e., job satisfaction, psychological health, and social integration, as outcomes. Again, we observe no significant effects (the picture shows cross-sectional regression results; FE mirrors them). 6/n
This finding is mirrored in the FE regression results, where we find only one significant negative correlation between starting WFH and activity (with large confidence bands). 5/n
We use cross-sectional and fixed effects regressions to estimate whether starting/stopping or always WFH is associated with the latent functions of employment. The cross-sectional regressions show no significant correlation between WFH and latent factors. 4/n
We use data from the Panel Study Labour Market and Social Security (PASS) to investigate whether working from home affects latent functions of work: providing time structure, social contacts, collective purpose, status, and activity to the same degree as working on site. 3/n
Working from home has become common in the labor market: In Germany, in 2023, around 24% of employees reported working from home some days (www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/La...). Does working from home also fulfil latent functions of work, like social contact? 2/n
New paper with Sebastian Bähr (@sebbaehr.bsky.social) and Bernad Batinic (JKU Linz) out now in @plosone.org ! We investigate whether working from home (WFH) affects latent functions of work and various well-being measures. 1/n
Overall, our study highlights the importance of looking at gendered differences in social networks in detail to understand the role of social networks in labor market outcomes. 5/5
The study is available here (Open Access): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Further analyses show that the effect is mostly driven by differences among highly educated individuals, where professional networks could be important for career prospects. 4/5
However, analyses of the job search channels show that men, conditional on job search via social networks, receive more in-depth support, for example they are significantly more often introduced to employers compared to women. 3/5
Interestingly, and maybe contrary to expectations, women report using social networks for job search more often than men. 2/5
New research note with Florian Zimmermann (@iabnews.bsky.social) out now Economics Letters! We investigate gender differences in job search behavior via social networks using data from the Panel Study Labour Market and Social Security (PASS). 1/5
Meine Forschung dazu:
Verdrängungseffekte von Minijobs: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Als IAB Forum:
www.iab-forum.de/minijobs-in-...
Minijobs und motherhood penalties:
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
Der IZA-Newsroom Artikel dazu:
newsroom.iza.org/de/archive/r...
Ich habe mit dem @zdfde.bsky.social über die aktuelle Debatte zu Minijobs gesprochen: www.zdfheute.de/politik/deut...
Join my team in beautiful Berne! ☀️🏔️
I will write a short thread on the paper once it is published in the journal, but here are the key recommendations (of which some, granted, are obvious). The paper is available at @socarxiv.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/so...
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...
Political science also has qualitative work, this should be no excuse for the lack of reproducability criteria in empirical papers. It also seems correct to me that the credibility revolution has not fully reached sociology, even for quantitative empirical papers.
Even if you do not care about the political beliefs of researchers, columns II and III on transparency and causal identification in sociology should worry you (although, of course, there is valuable descriptive research):
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...