@mcollischon.bsky.social
Doing social science research on gender differences, well-being and unemployment at Institute for Employment Research (IAB) https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=kqKHpzsAAAAJ&hl=de
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...
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.
Open questions on how inequality in the post-COVID period in subjective well-being persist, but I hope that our ongoing Special Issue (which I edit together with @jacquelinekroh.bsky.social and @patzinaalex.bsky.social) sheds some light on the long-term processes: link.springer.com/collections/...
E) A paper on the short-term effects of COVID-19 on well-being, with a focus on basic income support (with @sebbaehr.bsky.social @jepatste.bsky.social Corinna Frodermann, Julian Kohlruss and Mark Trappmann): www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
D) Paper on gender inequality in the effect of COVID-19 incidence rates on subjective wellbeing (w/ @jacquelinekroh.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
C) Paper on mental health of the population before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic (w/ Maksym Obrizan and Rasmus Hoffmann): journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
B) Paper on mental health and subjective wellbeing of young people in the school-to-work transition and the relation of health declines with educational decision-making (w/ @maltesandner.bsky.social Silke Anger, Sarah Bernhard and Hans Dietrich): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@patzinaalex.bsky.social and I contributed to the following papers recently:
A) Paper on subjective wellbeing of young people in the school-to-work-transition (w/ @neugebauer.bsky.social @maltesandner.bsky.social and Hans Dietrich): academic.oup.com/esr/article/...
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.