Chair of Empirical Economic Sociology

2026

• Wolbring, T. (2026). Beauty and Teaching. In Giselinde Kuipers; Outi Sarpila (Eds.), Handbook of Beauty and Inequality. (pp. 135-146). Cham: Springer.

2025

• Köhler, E. (2025). The Process of Labor Market Integration of Male Syrian Nationals Evidence From German Administrative Data Der Arbeitsmarktintegrationsprozess von Männern mit syrischer Staatsangehörigkeit Evidenz aus deutschen administrativen Daten. Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 54(4), 436-453. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfsoz-2025-2028
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

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
• 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
• 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
• 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

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
• 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
• 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
• 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

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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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.