@article{LiedlFritschSamperMejiaetal.2023,
  author    = {Liedl, Bernd and Fritsch, Nina-Sophie and Samper Mejia, Cristina and Verwiebe, Roland},
  title     = {Risk perceptions of individuals living in single-parent households during the COVID-19 crisis},
  series = {Frontiers in sociology},
  volume    = {8},
  journal   = {Frontiers in sociology},
  publisher = {Frontiers Media},
  address   = {Lausanne},
  issn      = {2297-7775},
  doi       = {10.3389/fsoc.2023.1265302},
  pages     = {13},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {The COVID-19 crisis had severe social and economic impact on the life of most citizens around the globe. Individuals living in single-parent households were particularly at risk, revealing detrimental labour market outcomes and assessments of future perspectives marked by worries. As it has not been investigated yet, in this paper we study, how their perception about the future and their outlook on how the pandemic will affect them is related to their objective economic resources. Against this background, we examine the subjective risk perception of worsening living standards of individuals living in single-parent households compared to other household types, their objective economic situation based on the logarithmised equivalised disposable household incomes and analyse the relationship between those indicators. Using the German SOEP, including the SOEP-CoV survey from 2020, our findings based on regression modelling reveal that individuals living in single-parent households have been worse off during the pandemic, facing high economic insecurity. Path and interaction models support our assumption that the association between those indicators may not be that straightforward, as there are underlying mechanisms-such as mediation and moderation-of income affecting its direction and strength. With respect to our central hypotheses, our empirical findings point toward (1) a mediation effect, by demonstrating that the subjective risk perception of single-parent households can be partly explained by economic conditions. (2) The moderating effect suggests that the concrete position at the income distribution of households matters as well. While at the lower end of the income distribution, single-parent households reveal particularly worse risk perceptions during the pandemic, at the high end of the income spectrum, risk perceptions are similar for all household types. Thus, individuals living in single-parent households do not perceive higher risks of worsening living standards due to their household situation per se, but rather because they are worse off in terms of their economic situation compared to individuals living in other household types.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FritschVerwiebeLiedl2019,
  author    = {Fritsch, Nina-Sophie and Verwiebe, Roland and Liedl, Bernd},
  title     = {Declining Gender Differences in Low-Wage Employment in Germany, Austria and Switzerland},
  series = {Comparative Sociology},
  volume    = {18},
  journal   = {Comparative Sociology},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Brill},
  address   = {Leiden},
  issn      = {1569-1322},
  doi       = {10.1163/15691330-12341507},
  pages     = {449 -- 488},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Although the low-wage employment sector has enlarged over the past 20 years in the context of pronounced flexibility in restructured labor markets, gender differences in low-wage employment have declined in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In this article, the authors examine reasons for declining gender inequalities, and most notably concentrate on explanations for the closing gender gap in low-wage employment risks. In addition, they identify differences and similarities among the German-speaking countries. Based on regression techniques and decomposition analyses (1996-2016), the authors find significantly decreasing labor market risks for the female workforce. Detailed analysis reveals that (1) the concrete positioning in the labor market shows greater importance in explaining declining gender differences compared to personal characteristics. (2) The changed composition of the labor markets has prevented the low-wage sector from increasing even more in general and works in favor of the female workforce and their low-wage employment risks in particular.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FritschVerwiebeLiedl2019,
  author    = {Fritsch, Nina-Sophie and Verwiebe, Roland and Liedl, Bernd},
  title     = {Declining Gender Differences in Low-Wage Employment in Germany, Austria and Switzerland},
  series = {Comparative Sociology},
  volume    = {18},
  journal   = {Comparative Sociology},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Brill},
  address   = {Leiden},
  issn      = {1569-1330},
  doi       = {10.1163/15691330-12341507},
  pages     = {449 -- 448},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Although the low-wage employment sector has enlarged over the past 20 years in the context of pronounced flexibility in restructured labor markets, gender differences in low-wage employment have declined in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In this article, the authors examine reasons for declining gender inequalities, and most notably concentrate on explanations for the closing gender gap in low-wage employment risks. In addition, they identify differences and similarities among the German-speaking countries. Based on regression techniques and decomposition analyses (1996-2016), the authors find significantly decreasing labor market risks for the female workforce. Detailed analysis reveals that (1) the concrete positioning in the labor market shows greater importance in explaining declining gender differences compared to personal characteristics. (2) The changed composition of the labor markets has prevented the low-wage sector from increasing even more in general and works in favor of the female workforce and their low-wage employment risks in particular.},
  language  = {en}
}