Bernhard Christoph

Biographic Data

ID4137747
NAMEBernhard Christoph
GIVEN NAMESBernhard
FAMILY NAMEChristoph
SIGNATURECHRISTOPH B
AFFILIATIONSInstitut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung
ORCID0000-0001-5342-8156
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS73
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • When the Burden Lifts: The Effect of School and Day Care Reopenings on Parents’ Life Satisfaction

    Open AccessLina Tobler, Bernhard Christoph et al.ARTICLEJournal of Happiness Studies2025

    The availability of childcare services eases parents’ daily lives and research has shown that it positively affects well-being, especially for mothers. However, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted established childcare arrangements, with school and day care closures adding to parental burdens. Despite extensive discourse on the influence of these closures on parental well-being, few studies have empirically analysed the effects of the increase in chi…

  • Tertiary Education, Changing One’s Educational Decision and the Role of Parental Preferences

    Open AccessBernhard Christoph, Heike Spangenberg et al.ARTICLEResearch in Higher Education2024

    Unequal access to university and the decision processes that give rise to it are important factors in the accumulation of educational inequalities. In this paper, we investigate a specific aspect of such decision processes by focusing on those students who change their original plans to start a (nontertiary) vocational education and decide to pursue a tertiary degree instead. In doing so, we find that more than one-fifth of the students in our sa…

  • Kids back to school – parents back to work? School and daycare opening and parents’ employment in the early phase of the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessLukas Fervers, Lina Tobler et al.ARTICLEJournal of European Social Policy2023References: 8

    Around the globe, the coronavirus pandemic has triggered various reactions of governments designed to contain the pandemic. Among other things, the pandemic led to an unforeseen and unprecedented closure of schools and daycare facilities. In turn, these closures might have forced parents to stay at home to care for their children who could not attend schools or kindergartens. From a social policy perspective, this raises the question of the exten…

  • The Relevance of Job-Related Concessions for Unemployment Duration Among Recipients of Means-Tested Benefits in Germany

    Open AccessBernhard Christoph, Torsten LietzmannARTICLEJournal of Social Policy2022References: 42

    Unemployment strongly influences a person's economic resources and life chances. Especially for unemployed individuals who have to rely on means-tested benefits, episodes of unemployment often go along with substantial material restrictions. Therefore, from a policy perspective, measures or regulations that might shorten unemployment episodes and reduce overall unemployment are particularly important.In this paper, we analyse whether concessions …

  • Experimental Evidence on Immediate and Long-term Consequences of Test-induced Respondent Burden for Panel Attrition

    Open AccessC Kleinert, Bernhard Christoph et al.ARTICLESociological Methods & Research2021Cited by: 1References: 34

    Panel attrition is a major problem in long-term panel studies. While the design of the German National Educational Panel Study adult survey-combining biannual competency tests with regular face-to-face interviews-is highly innovative, such a design could raise respondent burden and thus potentially increase panel attrition and nonresponse bias. To test this possibility, we use an experimental split questionnaire design administering two tests to …

  • Occupation-Based Measures—An Overview and Discussion

    Open AccessBernhard Christoph, Britta Matthes et al.ARTICLEKZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für…2020Cited by: 5References: 101

    Occupational information is among the most versatile categories of information about a person available in quantitative data. The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of occupation-based measures in different topic areas. These include not only measures for analyzing social stratification, such as prestige scales, socioeconomic indices and class schemes but also measures of workplace tasks, occupation-specific health risks, gender segrega…

  • Adult Education and Lifelong Learning

    Open AccessJutta Allmendinger, C Kleinert et al.CHAPTEREducation as a Lifelong Process2019

  • Je länger, je weniger? Zum Zusammenhang zwischen der Dauer des ALG-II-Leistungsbezugs und den materiellen Lebensbedingungen der Betroffenen

    Bernhard Christoph, Torsten LietzmannARTICLEZeitschrift für Sozialreform2016

    Bei der Betrachtung von Situationen mit eingeschränktem Lebensstandard aus einer zeitlichen Perspektive liegt der Fokus der Forschung zumeist auf dem Eintritt in bzw. dem Austritt aus derartigen Lebenslagen. Dies sind insbesondere Zeiten der Einkommensarmut oder des Bezugs bedarfsgeprüfter Sozialleistungen. Weniger gut untersucht ist hingegen der Zusammenhang zwischen der Verweildauer im Leistungsbezug und den materiellen Lebenzumständen der Betr…

  • Ein-Euro-Jobs aus Sicht der Betroffenen: Zur Binnenwahrnehmung eines kontroversen Instruments

    Bernhard Christoph, Katrin HohmeyerARTICLESozialer Fortschritt2012Cited by: 1References: 8

    Ein-Euro-Jobs gehören trotz der zuletzt zurückgehenden Teilnehmerzahlen zu den am häufigsten eingesetzten Maßnahmen zur Aktivierung von Arbeitslosengeld-II-Empfängern. Sie sollen als ultima ratio eingesetzt werden, um die Beschäftigungschancen von arbeitsmarktfernen Teilnehmern zu erhöhen. Der aktuelle Forschungsstand legt allerdings nahe, dass ihr Erfolg hinsichtlich der Reintegration von Leistungsempfängern in den ersten Arbeitsmarkt vergleichs…

  • The Relation Between Life Satisfaction and the Material Situation: A Re-Evaluation Using Alternative Measures

    Open AccessBernhard ChristophARTICLESocial Indicators Research2010Cited by: 15References: 37

  • Die Gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz der Sozialhilfe: Eine Untersuchung aus moralökonomischer Perspektive

    Open AccessPatrick Sachweh, Carsten G Ullrich et al.ARTICLEKZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für…2006Cited by: 2References: 20

  • Shaky attachments: Individual‐level stability and change of partisanship among West German voters, 1984–2001

    Open AccessRüdiger Schmitt‐beck, Stefan Weick et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Political…2006Cited by: 29References: 34

    Individual voters’ identification with a political party is believed to be a highly stable core of the political personality, and an ‘unmoved mover’ of political behaviour. In this article, the authors take advantage of a unique longitudinal database – the German Socio‐Economic Panel (GSOEP) – to test the basic premise of partisanship's high persistence. Analysing individual‐level data from 18 annual panel waves conducted in West Germany between …

  • Akzeptanz und Legitimität sozialer Ungleichheit: Zum Wandel von Einstellungen in West- und Ostdeutschland

    Open AccessHeinz-Herbert Noll, Bernhard ChristophCHAPTERSozialer und Politischer Wandel…2004

    Als klassisches Thema der Soziologie hat soziale Ungleichheit auch in der modernen, postindustriellen Gesellschaft kaum an Bedeutung und Interesse verloren, selbst wenn sich die Betrachtungsweisen und Forschungsperspektiven teilweise verändert haben. Fragen der Verteilung von Einkommen, Vermögen und finanziellen Lasten, Armut und Reichtum, aber auch die Chancen des Erwerbs von Bildungsabschlüssen und des Zugangs zu attraktiven Berufspositionen st…

  • Subjective Well-Being in The European Union During the 90s

    Bernhard Christoph, Heinz-Herbert NollCHAPTEREuropean Welfare Production2003

  • Subjective Well-Being in the European Union during the 90ies

    Open AccessBernhard Christoph, Heinz-Herbert NollARTICLESocial Indicators Research2003Cited by: 20References: 5