Lehrstuhl für Empirische Wirtschaftssoziologie

2025

• Prechsl, S. (2025). Reciprocity and job mobility: The effect of effort-reward imbalance in the employer-employee relationship on turnover intentions and actual job changes. Social Science Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103133
  DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103133
• Toussaint, C., Patzina, A., Dietrich, H., & Wolbring, T. (2025). Study programs, public rankings, and college enrollment intentions: Results from a survey experiment on study program content, flexibility and support. Sociology of Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380407251356274
  DOI: 10.1177/00380407251356274
• Wolbring, T., Köhler, E., & Fong, E. (2025). The poverty risk of East and South-East Asian migrant households in Germany The role of human capital, employment, and intermarriage. Journal for Labour Market Research, 59. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12651-025-00408-y
  DOI: 10.1186/s12651-025-00408-y
• Wolbring, T., Zimmermann, F., & Fong, E. (2025). Do works councils and collective agreements narrow immigrant-native wage gaps for disadvantaged immigrant groups? Novel evidence from German linked employer-employee data. Socio-Economic Review. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaf046
  DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwaf046
• Wörz, T., Collischon, M., & Wolbring, T. (2025). The Social Dynamics of Economic Comparisons: A Longitudinal Study on the Effects of Relative Wages on Subjective Well-Being Using Linked Survey and Register Data. Social Indicators Research, 179, 979–1001. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-025-03634-6
  DOI: 10.1007/s11205-025-03634-6

2024

• Collischon, M., Eberl, A., & Wolbring, T. (2024). Parental Well-Being When Children Move out: A Panel Study on Short- and Long-Term Effects. Advances in Life Course Research, 62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100643
  DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100643
• Herrmann, L., & Kühn, J. (2024). Is informedness the key? An empirical analysis of VET dropouts in Germany. Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40461-024-00171-3
  DOI: 10.1186/s40461-024-00171-3
• Kühn, J., & Wolbring, T. (2024). Beauty Pays, But Not Under All Circumstances: Evidence on Gendered Hiring Discrimination from a Novel Experimental Treatment Using Deepfakes. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 94, 100992. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100992
  DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100992
• Prechsl, S., & Wolbring, T. (2024). Shelter from the storm: do partnerships buffer the well-being costs of unemployment? European Sociological Review, 40(5), 820–837. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcad066
  DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcad066

2023

• Fuchs, B., Prechsl, S., & Wolbring, T. (2023). Social policy and labour supply: The impact of activating labour market institutions on reservation wages. Socio-Economic Review, 21(2), 863–884. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwac002
  DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwac002
• Kroh, J., & Prechsl, S. (2023). The Intervening Role of Social Integration in the Effect of Education on Subjective Mental Health. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100786
  DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100786
• Leitgöb, H., Prandner, D., & Wolbring, T. (2023). Editorial: Big data and machine learning in sociology. Frontiers in Sociology, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1173155
  DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2023.1173155
• Mutz, R., Wolbring, T., & Daniel, H.D. (2023). Sollten Förderentscheidungen partiell durch Lotterien ersetzt werden? Grundlagen, Konzeption und Evaluationsdesign am Beispiel des Förderinitiative `Experiment!` der Volkswagen Stiftung. Zeitschrift für Evaluation, 22(2), 243-274. https://doi.org/10.31244/zfe.2023.02.04
  DOI: 10.31244/zfe.2023.02.04

2022

• Abraham, M., Collischon, M., Grimm, V., Kreuter, F., Moser, K., Niessen, C.,... Wolbring, T. (2022). COVID-19, normative attitudes and pluralistic ignorance in employer-employee relationships. Journal for Labour Market Research, 56. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12651-022-00325-4
  DOI: 10.1186/s12651-022-00325-4
• Eberl, A., Collischon, M., & Jahn, K. (2022). The impact of the abolition of compulsory service on life satisfaction. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2021.100673
  DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2021.100673
  URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0276562421000937
• Eberl, A., Collischon, M., & Wolbring, T. (2022). Subjective Well-Being Scarring Through Unemployment: New Evidence from a Long-Running Panel. Social Forces, 101(3), 1485 - 1518. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soac022
  DOI: 10.1093/sf/soac022
• Eberl, A., Kühn, J., & Wolbring, T. (2022). Using deepfakes for experiments in the social sciences–A pilot study. Frontiers in Sociology, 7, 907199. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.907199
  DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2022.907199
• Heyne, S., & Wolbring, T. (2022). Do Mothers and Fathers in Germany Really Prefer a Traditional Division of Labor? The Impact of Working Hours on Life Satisfaction Reconsidered. Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 51(3), 298-306. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfsoz-2022-0013
  DOI: 10.1515/zfsoz-2022-0013
• Krug, G., & Prechsl, S. (2022). Do changes in network structure explain why unemployment damages health? Evidence from German panel data. Social science & medicine, 307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115161
  DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115161
• Leszczensky, L., & Wolbring, T. (2022). How to Deal With Reverse Causality Using Panel Data? Recommendations for Researchers Based on a Simulation Study. Sociological Methods & Research, 51(2), 837–865. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124119882473
  DOI: 10.1177/0049124119882473
• Treischl, E., & Wolbring, T. (2022). The Past, Present and Future of Factorial Survey Experiments: A Review for the Social Sciences. Methods, data, analyses, 16(2), 141-170. https://doi.org/10.12758/mda.2021.07
  DOI: 10.12758/mda.2021.07

2021

• Abraham, M., Damelang, A., Grimm, V., Neeß, C., & Seebauer, M. (2021). The role of reciprocity in the creation of reputation. European Sociological Review, 37(1), 137-154. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaa038
  DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcaa038
• Collischon, M. (2021). Personality traits as a partial explanation for gender wage gaps and glass ceilings. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2021.100596
  DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2021.100596
• Collischon, M., & Eberl, A. (2021). Social capital as a partial explanation for gender wage gaps. British Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12833
  DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.12833
  URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.12833
• Farys, R., & Wolbring, T. (2021). Matthew Effects in Science and the Serial Diffusion of Ideas: Testing Old Ideas with New Methods. Quantitative Science Studies, 2, 505–526. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00129
  DOI: 10.1162/qss_a_00129
• Gerlich, R., & Wolbring, T. (2021). "In good times and in bad, in sickness and in health”: A Longitudinal Study on Informal Caregiving and Life Satisfaction. Journal of Happiness Studies, 22, 1481-1516. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-020-00281-1
  DOI: 10.1007/s10902-020-00281-1
• Schömer, D., Laumer, S., Treischl, E., Weigert, J., Wilbers, K., & Wolbring, T. (2021). Data-driven Student Advisory and Potential Direct Discrimination: A Literature Review on Machine Learning for Predicting Students' Academic Success. In Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems. Montreal, CA.
• Treischl, E., Laumer, S., Schömer, D., Weigert, J., Wilbers, K., & Wolbring, T. (2021). Give a Little, Take a Little? A Factorial Survey Experiment on Students’ Willingness to Use an AI-based Advisory System and to Share Data. In T. Wolbring, H. Leitgöb, & F. Faulbaum (Eds.), Sozialwissenschaftliche Datenerhebung im digitalen Zeitalter. (pp. 253-281). Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-34396-5_10