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Dieser Beitrag ist am 1. März in der ZEIT ONLINE–Kolumne „Fratzschers Verteilungsfragen“ erschienen. Der Nobelpreisgewinner Angus Deaton und seine Kollegin Anne Case haben vor einiger Zeit mit ihrer Studie über ein Phänomen viel Aufsehen erregt, das sie death of despair tauften: Tod aus Verzweiflung, also durch Suizid, Alkohol und Drogen. Die beiden zeigten, ...
DIW-Präsident Marcel Fratzscher äußert sich zu den heutigen Änkündigungen der Europäischen Zentralbank:
DIW president Marcel Fratzscher on the European Central Bank's latest announcements:
Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index. If control variables are added, estimates are split by gender and different effects of over- and underweight people are determined, the health estimates show ...
Women-friendly policies may have perverse effects on the wages of employed women and mothers in particular. Yet few have addressed the causal impact of such policies and the mechanisms they might trigger at the individual level to produce such wage responses. We assess if and how two decades of reforms of parental leave schemes in Germany have shaped changes in the motherhood wage penalty over time. ...
Martin Kroh has been appointed to the newly established Fachkommission Integrationsfähigkeit of the Federal Government. The aim of the Commission is to describe the economic, labor market, social and demographic conditions for integration and to propose standards for improving them.
Zusammen mit seinen Co-AutorInnen Marina Hagen and Reinhard Schunck hat Marco Giesselmann den Advances in Life Course Research Young Scholar Award für den Aufsatz “Motherhood and mental well-being in Germany: Linking a longitudinal life course design and the gender perspective on motherhood” erhalten. Der Gewinneraufsatz ist frei erhältlich!
Together with co-authors Marina Hagen and Reinhard Schunck, Marco Giesselmann has received the Advances in Life Course Research Young Scholar Award for the paper “Motherhood and mental well-being in Germany: Linking a longitudinal life course design and the gender perspective on motherhood.” Read the winning paper for free here!
