Compulsory military service is still a prominent feature of young people's careers in many countries. We use the abolition of compulsory military and civil service for males in 2011 in Germany as a natural experiment to identify effects of institutionalized career disruptions on life...

With the broader availability of panel data, fixed effects (FE) regression models are becoming increasingly important in sociology. However, in some studies the potential pitfalls of these models may be ignored, and common critiques of FE models may not always be applicable in comparison to...

Recently, expectile-based measures of skewness akin to well-known quantile-based skewness measures have been introduced, and it has been shown that these measures possess quite promising properties (Eberl and Klar in Comput Stat Data Anal 146:106939, 2020; Scand J Stat, 2021,...

The concept of kurtosis is used to describe and compare theoretical and empirical distributions in a multitude of applications. In this connection, it is commonly applied to asymmetric distributions. However, there is no rigorous mathematical foundation establishing what is meant by kurtosis of...

The concept of kurtosis is used to describe and compare theoretical and empirical distributions in a multitude of applications. In this connection, it is commonly applied to asymmetric distributions. However, there is no rigorous mathematical foundation establishing what is meant by kurtosis of...

Der Abschlussbericht zum Projektmodul "Perspektive der Leistungserbringer" betrachtet den Prozess der beruflichen Rehabilitation aus Sicht der Leistungserbringer. Dabei wird ein gemischtmethodisches Forschungsdesign verwendet. Im Rahmen des Berichts werden die Leistungserbringer näher...

Vor dem Hintergrund der sozialen Marktwirtschaft wird Prekarität als eine Folge von arbeitsmarkt- und sozialpolitischen Veränderungen diskutiert. Es wird bilanziert, dass der soziale Zusammenhalt der Arbeitsgesellschaft in Deutschland gefährdet ist. Im Anschluss an diese Diskussion geht die...

Vor dem Hintergrund des Strukturwandels der Erwerbsarbeit in den letzten Jahrzehnten sind die Begriffe Prekariat und Prekarität Gegenstand aktueller Debatten. Für den empirischen Beleg eines Prekariats in Deutschland fehlten bisher jedoch Längsschnittstudien. Unsere Studie untersucht unter...

The article investigates entry-stage employment trajectories of young people in Germany, asking whether transitions into continuous employment indicate successful labour market integration. Applying a novel multidimensional approach to precariousness to individuals’ employment and household...

Employment relationships are embedded in a network of social norms that provide an implicit framework for desired behaviour, especially if contractual solutions are weak. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about major changes that have led to situations, such as the scope of short-time work or...