K Mohring
Biographic Data
| ID | 47181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Mohring |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Mohring |
| SIGNATURE | MOHRING K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mannheim |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3742-5374 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 194 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Motherhood Penalty in Financial Resources for Retirement: A Life Course Perspective on the Accumulation of Public Pension Wealth and Personal Wealth in East and West Germany
This study investigates the motherhood penalty on personal net wealth and public pension wealth, focusing on women born between 1937 and 1989. Expanding upon previous research, we (a) contrast the impact of motherhood on public pension wealth and net wealth, (b) adopt a dynamic perspective by modelling wealth accumulation over the life course, and (c) differentiate between mothers of one or multiple children. Our sample includes individuals insur…
A long arm of adversity? Financial hardship during the life course and income in retirement
This study investigates whether and when financial hardship during the life course is related to pension income levels in 27 European countries and whether relations between hardship and pension income differ across gender and welfare regimes. Data from the Survey for Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe are used, combining retrospective information on respondents’ experienced financial hardship and their current pension income (N = 38,574). W…
Inequality in Employment Trajectories and their Consequences for Perceived Employment Insecurity and Work Satisfaction During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This paper evaluates inequalities in employment trajectories during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany and their association with changes in perceived employment insecurity and work satisfaction in the short- and longer term. We contribute to existing research on employment changes and their effects during the pandemic in two ways. First, we not only focus on changes in the employment situation – remote work, short-time work, and…
Wage Premium or Wage Penalty? Gendered Long-term Wage Development of Family Caregivers
This study theoretically and empirically assesses the gendered relationship between family caregiving (excluding regular childcare) and wage development in the Netherlands applying conflict theory, which predicts a wage penalty due to difficulties in combining paid work and care, and enrichment theory, which expects a wage premium because of acquired skills and recognition. Growth curve modelling was used to analyse hourly wages from 19 years of …
The ethnic penalty in welfare deservingness: A factorial survey experiment on welfare chauvinism in pension attitudes in Germany
This study investigates whether pensioners with a foreign ethnic background are perceived as less deserving to receive a pension than are native pensioners. It focuses on Germany as an example with a strongly achievement-oriented social insurance system which closely links benefits to previous contributions. Hence, the system prevents a citizen from receiving benefits without having contributed. Our study thus adds to existing research by examini…
How did the Covid-19 pandemic impact the wellbeing of family care-givers? A longitudinal study of older adults in Germany
Previous research was not able to identify an effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on family care-givers' wellbeing due to cross-sectional data structures, care-giver-specific samples or non-probability sampling designs. In this article, by drawing on longitudinal data from a random and representative sample of the German population aged 40 and older, we overcome methodological limitations of previous research. We examine the impact of the COVID-19 pa…
Public support for affirmative action policies favouring women and migrants in recruitment processes: An international survey experiment
Affirmative action policies (AAP) polarise the public debate in Western democracies as they involve favouring one candidate at the cost of others because of their group membership. Against this backdrop, we ran a factorial survey experiment in Denmark, France and Germany on the introduction of a hypothetical regulation favouring women and immigrants with equal qualifications in the recruitment process for a management position (N = 4264; YouGov o…
Who supports whom? Citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups
Despite the divisive character of Affirmative Action Policies (AAP)s, we still know very little about why some people oppose, while others support such regulations. We provide new evidence from a survey experiment in Germany, where we asked respondents to what extent they would support the introduction of a hypothetical regulation favouring – if equally qualified – members of an underrepresented group in the recruitment process for a management p…
Assessing dissimilarity of employment history information from survey and administrative data using sequence analysis techniques
Life course data is frequently gathered either using retrospective surveys or linking records with administrative data. Yet, each strategy has specific advantages and disadvantages. We study the consistency between both types of data sources and reasons for mismatch using the linked data set SHARE-RV, which combines retrospective life history data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) with respondents’ administrative …
Couples' Life Courses and Women's Income in Later Life: A Multichannel Sequence Analysis of Linked Lives in Germany
We examine how the life courses of couples in East and West Germany are linked to women's income in later life using multichannel sequence analysis. By applying a couple perspective, we overcome the individualistic approach in most previous research analysing women's old-age income. Detailed monthly information on spouses' employment and earnings trajectories from age 20 to 50 for the birth cohorts 1925-1965 (N = 2020) stems from SHARE-RV, a data…
Chipping In or Crowding-Out? The Impact of Pension Receipt on Older Adults’ Intergenerational Support and Subjective Well-Being in Rural China
Inequalities in pensions and retirement from a life course perspective: An introduction
Life course trajectories have become increasingly important for retirement and pensions as recent reforms have strengthened the link between lifetime employment and benefits, introduced measures to lengthen working lives and increased the role of private supplementary pensions. At the same time, life courses are increasingly fragmented due to diversified and discontinuous employment, family dynamics and migration. These developments raise concern…
The consequences of non‐standard working and marital biographies for old age income in Europe: Contrasting the individual and the household perspective
The article addresses the question of how individuals with non‐standard work or family histories fare under different national pension systems in terms of their individual and household income in old age. It provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship of life course with later life individual and household income, and thereby goes beyond previous research that either focuses on one or the other. Life history data for 12 European countri…
Sorgen vor einer Ansteckung mit dem Coronavirus in Alltagssituationen. Welche Unterschiede gibt es in der Bevölkerung
Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten in der Bevölkerung hinsichtlich der Sorgen vor einer Ansteckung mit dem Coronavirus in den drei Alltagssituationen Arztbesuch, Einkauf und Arbeit. Während ältere Menschen vor allem beim Einkaufen besorgt sind, haben Personen mit Vorerkrankungen auch bei Arztbesuchen und bei der Arbeit erhöhte Sorgen vor einer Ansteckung. Besonders in frauendominierten Berufen wie im Gesundheits- …
Health behaviors and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic: A longitudinal population-based survey in Germany
Erwerbsverläufe von Paaren und Armutsrisiken in der Nacherwerbsphase in Europa
Unser Beitrag analysiert Erwerbsverläufe von Paaren in 23 europäischen Ländern und geht der Frage nach, in welchen Zusammenhang Paarlebensläufe mit dem Risiko von späterer Altersarmut stehen. Dazu verwenden wir im ersten Schritt die Lebenslaufdaten des Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) für eine Multichannel-Sequenzmusteranalyse von n=8741 Paaren. Auf Grundlage dieser Analyse identifizieren wir acht Typen von Paarlebensläu…
Covid‐19 policies in Germany and their social, political, and psychological consequences
Many policy analyses on COVID-19 have been focusing on what kind of policies are implemented to contain the spread of COVID-19. What seems equally important to explore are the social and political consequences of the confinement policies. Does the public support strict confinement policies? What are the social, political, and psychological consequences of the confinement policies? The question of how legitimate a policy is among the public is at …
The Covid-19 pandemic and subjective well-being: Longitudinal evidence on satisfaction with work and family
This paper provides a timely evaluation of whether the main COVID-19 lockdown policies – remote work, short-time work and closure of schools and childcare – have an immediate effect on the German population in terms of changes in satisfaction with work and family life. Relying on individual level panel data collected before and during the lockdown, we examine (1) how family satisfaction and work satisfaction of individuals have changed over the l…
What Comes after Caring? The Impact of Family Care on Women's Employment
Previous research has shown that women providing family care tend to decrease paid work. We take the opposite perspective and examine how current and previous family care tasks influence women's likelihood to (re-)enter employment or to increase working hours. Family care is defined as caring for an ill, disabled or frail elderly partner, parent, or other family member. Using German Socio-Economic Panel data, we apply Cox shared frailty regressio…
Equality prescribed? Contextual determinants of citizens’ support for gender boardroom quotas across Europe
We provide the first cross-national comparative study of citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in the economy using the example of gender quotas for company boards. In contrast to previous studies, we focus on the contextual level and analyse how factors related to political institutions and actors, and economic and social structure shape citizens’ support and the gap in support between men and women. We apply multilevel regression an…
Who supports gender quotas for company leadership? An empirical analysis of determinants of support and rejection among German citizens
After a long and controversial debate, a statutory gender boardroom quota was introduced in Germany in 2016. We examine the determinants of support for this quota among citizens aiming to identify the social groups that approve the most and those that resent the most the quota law. The approaches of self-interest, political orientation, and exposure are used to understand variation in support from a theoretical perspective. Based on data from the…
Parenthood and Later Life Health: An International Life Course Analysis of Parents and Childless Adults Aged 50 and Older
This study investigates how women’s and men’s fertility history affect their health in later life and if this relationship varies across countries and cohorts. We use life history data and current health status of persons aged 50 and over from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) for 13 countries. Country-fixed effects regressions show that parenthood itself and the number of children have little impact on later life heal…
Is there a motherhood penalty in retirement income in Europe? The role of lifecourse and institutional characteristics
This study examines the retirement income of women in Europe, focusing on the effect of motherhood. Due to their more interrupted working careers compared to non-mothers and fathers, mothers are likely to accumulate fewer pension entitlements, and consequently, to receive lower incomes in later life. However, pension systems in Europe vary widely in the degree to which they compensate for care-related career interruptions by means of redistributi…
Life course regimes in Europe: Individual employment histories in comparative and historical perspective
This study develops an empirically based typology of life course regimes using data on life histories of individuals in 14 European countries from the third wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARELIFE). The concept of life course policy serves as a theoretical basis to describe the impact of welfare state regime differences and long-term historical developments on the structure of individual employment histories. Sequ…
Cumulative (Dis)advantage? The Impact of Labour Market Policies on Late Career Employment from a Life Course Perspective
We investigate the labour market situation of older individuals in Europe in relation to their previous employment history as well as the regulations relating to employment protection legislation and early retirement. Specifically, we look at the competing risks of early retirement and late career unemployment. The central research question is whether policy effects differ according to the characteristics of an individual's previous work history.…
The Covid-19 pandemic and subjective well-being: Longitudinal evidence on satisfaction with work and family
This paper provides a timely evaluation of whether the main COVID-19 lockdown policies – remote work, short-time work and closure of schools and childcare – have an immediate effect on the German population in terms of changes in satisfaction with work and family life. Relying on individual level panel data collected before and during the lockdown, we examine (1) how family satisfaction and work satisfaction of individuals have changed over the l…
Employment Histories and Pension Incomes in Europe: A multilevel analysis of the role of institutional factors
In research on pensions and retirement income, it has been frequently reasoned that the economic situation in later life is determined by an interplay of individual and institutional factors. However, previous studies in this field either focus only on individual determinants or on macro-level outcomes using aggregated data. We apply a multilevel approach to examine the impact of institutional factors on the link of individual pension income and …
Covid‐19 policies in Germany and their social, political, and psychological consequences
Many policy analyses on COVID-19 have been focusing on what kind of policies are implemented to contain the spread of COVID-19. What seems equally important to explore are the social and political consequences of the confinement policies. Does the public support strict confinement policies? What are the social, political, and psychological consequences of the confinement policies? The question of how legitimate a policy is among the public is at …
Life course regimes in Europe: Individual employment histories in comparative and historical perspective
This study develops an empirically based typology of life course regimes using data on life histories of individuals in 14 European countries from the third wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARELIFE). The concept of life course policy serves as a theoretical basis to describe the impact of welfare state regime differences and long-term historical developments on the structure of individual employment histories. Sequ…
Is there a motherhood penalty in retirement income in Europe? The role of lifecourse and institutional characteristics
This study examines the retirement income of women in Europe, focusing on the effect of motherhood. Due to their more interrupted working careers compared to non-mothers and fathers, mothers are likely to accumulate fewer pension entitlements, and consequently, to receive lower incomes in later life. However, pension systems in Europe vary widely in the degree to which they compensate for care-related career interruptions by means of redistributi…
Health behaviors and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic: A longitudinal population-based survey in Germany
Cumulative (Dis)advantage? The Impact of Labour Market Policies on Late Career Employment from a Life Course Perspective
We investigate the labour market situation of older individuals in Europe in relation to their previous employment history as well as the regulations relating to employment protection legislation and early retirement. Specifically, we look at the competing risks of early retirement and late career unemployment. The central research question is whether policy effects differ according to the characteristics of an individual's previous work history.…
Equality prescribed? Contextual determinants of citizens’ support for gender boardroom quotas across Europe
We provide the first cross-national comparative study of citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in the economy using the example of gender quotas for company boards. In contrast to previous studies, we focus on the contextual level and analyse how factors related to political institutions and actors, and economic and social structure shape citizens’ support and the gap in support between men and women. We apply multilevel regression an…
Inequalities in pensions and retirement from a life course perspective: An introduction
Life course trajectories have become increasingly important for retirement and pensions as recent reforms have strengthened the link between lifetime employment and benefits, introduced measures to lengthen working lives and increased the role of private supplementary pensions. At the same time, life courses are increasingly fragmented due to diversified and discontinuous employment, family dynamics and migration. These developments raise concern…
Who supports whom? Citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups
Despite the divisive character of Affirmative Action Policies (AAP)s, we still know very little about why some people oppose, while others support such regulations. We provide new evidence from a survey experiment in Germany, where we asked respondents to what extent they would support the introduction of a hypothetical regulation favouring – if equally qualified – members of an underrepresented group in the recruitment process for a management p…
Couples' Life Courses and Women's Income in Later Life: A Multichannel Sequence Analysis of Linked Lives in Germany
We examine how the life courses of couples in East and West Germany are linked to women's income in later life using multichannel sequence analysis. By applying a couple perspective, we overcome the individualistic approach in most previous research analysing women's old-age income. Detailed monthly information on spouses' employment and earnings trajectories from age 20 to 50 for the birth cohorts 1925-1965 (N = 2020) stems from SHARE-RV, a data…
The consequences of non‐standard working and marital biographies for old age income in Europe: Contrasting the individual and the household perspective
The article addresses the question of how individuals with non‐standard work or family histories fare under different national pension systems in terms of their individual and household income in old age. It provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship of life course with later life individual and household income, and thereby goes beyond previous research that either focuses on one or the other. Life history data for 12 European countri…
What Comes after Caring? The Impact of Family Care on Women's Employment
Previous research has shown that women providing family care tend to decrease paid work. We take the opposite perspective and examine how current and previous family care tasks influence women's likelihood to (re-)enter employment or to increase working hours. Family care is defined as caring for an ill, disabled or frail elderly partner, parent, or other family member. Using German Socio-Economic Panel data, we apply Cox shared frailty regressio…
Who supports gender quotas for company leadership? An empirical analysis of determinants of support and rejection among German citizens
After a long and controversial debate, a statutory gender boardroom quota was introduced in Germany in 2016. We examine the determinants of support for this quota among citizens aiming to identify the social groups that approve the most and those that resent the most the quota law. The approaches of self-interest, political orientation, and exposure are used to understand variation in support from a theoretical perspective. Based on data from the…
The ethnic penalty in welfare deservingness: A factorial survey experiment on welfare chauvinism in pension attitudes in Germany
This study investigates whether pensioners with a foreign ethnic background are perceived as less deserving to receive a pension than are native pensioners. It focuses on Germany as an example with a strongly achievement-oriented social insurance system which closely links benefits to previous contributions. Hence, the system prevents a citizen from receiving benefits without having contributed. Our study thus adds to existing research by examini…
Wage Premium or Wage Penalty? Gendered Long-term Wage Development of Family Caregivers
This study theoretically and empirically assesses the gendered relationship between family caregiving (excluding regular childcare) and wage development in the Netherlands applying conflict theory, which predicts a wage penalty due to difficulties in combining paid work and care, and enrichment theory, which expects a wage premium because of acquired skills and recognition. Growth curve modelling was used to analyse hourly wages from 19 years of …
How did the Covid-19 pandemic impact the wellbeing of family care-givers? A longitudinal study of older adults in Germany
Previous research was not able to identify an effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on family care-givers' wellbeing due to cross-sectional data structures, care-giver-specific samples or non-probability sampling designs. In this article, by drawing on longitudinal data from a random and representative sample of the German population aged 40 and older, we overcome methodological limitations of previous research. We examine the impact of the COVID-19 pa…
Public support for affirmative action policies favouring women and migrants in recruitment processes: An international survey experiment
Affirmative action policies (AAP) polarise the public debate in Western democracies as they involve favouring one candidate at the cost of others because of their group membership. Against this backdrop, we ran a factorial survey experiment in Denmark, France and Germany on the introduction of a hypothetical regulation favouring women and immigrants with equal qualifications in the recruitment process for a management position (N = 4264; YouGov o…
Chipping In or Crowding-Out? The Impact of Pension Receipt on Older Adults’ Intergenerational Support and Subjective Well-Being in Rural China
Employment Histories and Pension Incomes in Europe: A multilevel analysis of the role of institutional factors
In research on pensions and retirement income, it has been frequently reasoned that the economic situation in later life is determined by an interplay of individual and institutional factors. However, previous studies in this field either focus only on individual determinants or on macro-level outcomes using aggregated data. We apply a multilevel approach to examine the impact of institutional factors on the link of individual pension income and …
Cumulative (Dis)advantage? The Impact of Labour Market Policies on Late Career Employment from a Life Course Perspective
We investigate the labour market situation of older individuals in Europe in relation to their previous employment history as well as the regulations relating to employment protection legislation and early retirement. Specifically, we look at the competing risks of early retirement and late career unemployment. The central research question is whether policy effects differ according to the characteristics of an individual's previous work history.…
Life course regimes in Europe: Individual employment histories in comparative and historical perspective
This study develops an empirically based typology of life course regimes using data on life histories of individuals in 14 European countries from the third wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARELIFE). The concept of life course policy serves as a theoretical basis to describe the impact of welfare state regime differences and long-term historical developments on the structure of individual employment histories. Sequ…
Parenthood and Later Life Health: An International Life Course Analysis of Parents and Childless Adults Aged 50 and Older
This study investigates how women’s and men’s fertility history affect their health in later life and if this relationship varies across countries and cohorts. We use life history data and current health status of persons aged 50 and over from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) for 13 countries. Country-fixed effects regressions show that parenthood itself and the number of children have little impact on later life heal…
Is there a motherhood penalty in retirement income in Europe? The role of lifecourse and institutional characteristics
This study examines the retirement income of women in Europe, focusing on the effect of motherhood. Due to their more interrupted working careers compared to non-mothers and fathers, mothers are likely to accumulate fewer pension entitlements, and consequently, to receive lower incomes in later life. However, pension systems in Europe vary widely in the degree to which they compensate for care-related career interruptions by means of redistributi…
Equality prescribed? Contextual determinants of citizens’ support for gender boardroom quotas across Europe
We provide the first cross-national comparative study of citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in the economy using the example of gender quotas for company boards. In contrast to previous studies, we focus on the contextual level and analyse how factors related to political institutions and actors, and economic and social structure shape citizens’ support and the gap in support between men and women. We apply multilevel regression an…
Who supports gender quotas for company leadership? An empirical analysis of determinants of support and rejection among German citizens
After a long and controversial debate, a statutory gender boardroom quota was introduced in Germany in 2016. We examine the determinants of support for this quota among citizens aiming to identify the social groups that approve the most and those that resent the most the quota law. The approaches of self-interest, political orientation, and exposure are used to understand variation in support from a theoretical perspective. Based on data from the…
Erwerbsverläufe von Paaren und Armutsrisiken in der Nacherwerbsphase in Europa
Unser Beitrag analysiert Erwerbsverläufe von Paaren in 23 europäischen Ländern und geht der Frage nach, in welchen Zusammenhang Paarlebensläufe mit dem Risiko von späterer Altersarmut stehen. Dazu verwenden wir im ersten Schritt die Lebenslaufdaten des Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) für eine Multichannel-Sequenzmusteranalyse von n=8741 Paaren. Auf Grundlage dieser Analyse identifizieren wir acht Typen von Paarlebensläu…
Covid‐19 policies in Germany and their social, political, and psychological consequences
Many policy analyses on COVID-19 have been focusing on what kind of policies are implemented to contain the spread of COVID-19. What seems equally important to explore are the social and political consequences of the confinement policies. Does the public support strict confinement policies? What are the social, political, and psychological consequences of the confinement policies? The question of how legitimate a policy is among the public is at …
The Covid-19 pandemic and subjective well-being: Longitudinal evidence on satisfaction with work and family
This paper provides a timely evaluation of whether the main COVID-19 lockdown policies – remote work, short-time work and closure of schools and childcare – have an immediate effect on the German population in terms of changes in satisfaction with work and family life. Relying on individual level panel data collected before and during the lockdown, we examine (1) how family satisfaction and work satisfaction of individuals have changed over the l…
What Comes after Caring? The Impact of Family Care on Women's Employment
Previous research has shown that women providing family care tend to decrease paid work. We take the opposite perspective and examine how current and previous family care tasks influence women's likelihood to (re-)enter employment or to increase working hours. Family care is defined as caring for an ill, disabled or frail elderly partner, parent, or other family member. Using German Socio-Economic Panel data, we apply Cox shared frailty regressio…
Chipping In or Crowding-Out? The Impact of Pension Receipt on Older Adults’ Intergenerational Support and Subjective Well-Being in Rural China
Inequalities in pensions and retirement from a life course perspective: An introduction
Life course trajectories have become increasingly important for retirement and pensions as recent reforms have strengthened the link between lifetime employment and benefits, introduced measures to lengthen working lives and increased the role of private supplementary pensions. At the same time, life courses are increasingly fragmented due to diversified and discontinuous employment, family dynamics and migration. These developments raise concern…
The consequences of non‐standard working and marital biographies for old age income in Europe: Contrasting the individual and the household perspective
The article addresses the question of how individuals with non‐standard work or family histories fare under different national pension systems in terms of their individual and household income in old age. It provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship of life course with later life individual and household income, and thereby goes beyond previous research that either focuses on one or the other. Life history data for 12 European countri…
Sorgen vor einer Ansteckung mit dem Coronavirus in Alltagssituationen. Welche Unterschiede gibt es in der Bevölkerung
Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten in der Bevölkerung hinsichtlich der Sorgen vor einer Ansteckung mit dem Coronavirus in den drei Alltagssituationen Arztbesuch, Einkauf und Arbeit. Während ältere Menschen vor allem beim Einkaufen besorgt sind, haben Personen mit Vorerkrankungen auch bei Arztbesuchen und bei der Arbeit erhöhte Sorgen vor einer Ansteckung. Besonders in frauendominierten Berufen wie im Gesundheits- …
Health behaviors and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic: A longitudinal population-based survey in Germany
Assessing dissimilarity of employment history information from survey and administrative data using sequence analysis techniques
Life course data is frequently gathered either using retrospective surveys or linking records with administrative data. Yet, each strategy has specific advantages and disadvantages. We study the consistency between both types of data sources and reasons for mismatch using the linked data set SHARE-RV, which combines retrospective life history data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) with respondents’ administrative …
Couples' Life Courses and Women's Income in Later Life: A Multichannel Sequence Analysis of Linked Lives in Germany
We examine how the life courses of couples in East and West Germany are linked to women's income in later life using multichannel sequence analysis. By applying a couple perspective, we overcome the individualistic approach in most previous research analysing women's old-age income. Detailed monthly information on spouses' employment and earnings trajectories from age 20 to 50 for the birth cohorts 1925-1965 (N = 2020) stems from SHARE-RV, a data…
Who supports whom? Citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups
Despite the divisive character of Affirmative Action Policies (AAP)s, we still know very little about why some people oppose, while others support such regulations. We provide new evidence from a survey experiment in Germany, where we asked respondents to what extent they would support the introduction of a hypothetical regulation favouring – if equally qualified – members of an underrepresented group in the recruitment process for a management p…
The ethnic penalty in welfare deservingness: A factorial survey experiment on welfare chauvinism in pension attitudes in Germany
This study investigates whether pensioners with a foreign ethnic background are perceived as less deserving to receive a pension than are native pensioners. It focuses on Germany as an example with a strongly achievement-oriented social insurance system which closely links benefits to previous contributions. Hence, the system prevents a citizen from receiving benefits without having contributed. Our study thus adds to existing research by examini…
How did the Covid-19 pandemic impact the wellbeing of family care-givers? A longitudinal study of older adults in Germany
Previous research was not able to identify an effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on family care-givers' wellbeing due to cross-sectional data structures, care-giver-specific samples or non-probability sampling designs. In this article, by drawing on longitudinal data from a random and representative sample of the German population aged 40 and older, we overcome methodological limitations of previous research. We examine the impact of the COVID-19 pa…
Public support for affirmative action policies favouring women and migrants in recruitment processes: An international survey experiment
Affirmative action policies (AAP) polarise the public debate in Western democracies as they involve favouring one candidate at the cost of others because of their group membership. Against this backdrop, we ran a factorial survey experiment in Denmark, France and Germany on the introduction of a hypothetical regulation favouring women and immigrants with equal qualifications in the recruitment process for a management position (N = 4264; YouGov o…
A long arm of adversity? Financial hardship during the life course and income in retirement
This study investigates whether and when financial hardship during the life course is related to pension income levels in 27 European countries and whether relations between hardship and pension income differ across gender and welfare regimes. Data from the Survey for Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe are used, combining retrospective information on respondents’ experienced financial hardship and their current pension income (N = 38,574). W…
Inequality in Employment Trajectories and their Consequences for Perceived Employment Insecurity and Work Satisfaction During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This paper evaluates inequalities in employment trajectories during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany and their association with changes in perceived employment insecurity and work satisfaction in the short- and longer term. We contribute to existing research on employment changes and their effects during the pandemic in two ways. First, we not only focus on changes in the employment situation – remote work, short-time work, and…
Wage Premium or Wage Penalty? Gendered Long-term Wage Development of Family Caregivers
This study theoretically and empirically assesses the gendered relationship between family caregiving (excluding regular childcare) and wage development in the Netherlands applying conflict theory, which predicts a wage penalty due to difficulties in combining paid work and care, and enrichment theory, which expects a wage premium because of acquired skills and recognition. Growth curve modelling was used to analyse hourly wages from 19 years of …
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