Today, half of the world’s migrants are female, amounting to 114 million individuals in 2017. The intersection between migration and gender has profound consequences for individuals: gender affects, amongst others migration motifs, selection into migration, as well as decisions on destination countries. Further, the experiences in the host country are gender-specific and especially so when...
This study examines the association between parental separations during childhood and economic wealth of adult children. We provide a new test of this relationship and address two unresolved debates in the literature concerning (1) the pathways linking parental separation and adult children’s wealth and (2) the relevance of the timing of exposure. We use data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics ...
This survey study assesses attitudes of the German public regarding COVID-19 health communications with varying degrees of scientific uncertainty.
Ja, es ist ein Verlust von unternehmerischer Freiheit, wenn es für Vorstände jetzt eine Frauenquote gibt. Aber der Schritt stärkt langfristig die Freiheit aller. Once little girls can see it, little girls can be it" – wenn kleine Mädchen einmal etwas sehen können, dann können sie dies sein – sprach die 22-jährige Poetin Amanda Gorman zur Amtseinführung ...
DIW-Präsident Marcel Fratzscher kommentiert die heutige Sitzung des EZB-Rats wie folgt:
Dieser Gastbeitrag von Alexander Kritikos erschien am 19.1.2021 in der WELT. Der Wirtschaftseinbruch in Griechenland durch Corona ist enorm. Aber die Regierung Mitsotakis verteilt die Hilfsgelder der EU nicht mit der Gießkanne, sondern fördert gezielt Zukunftsprojekte: Klimaschutz, Bildung, Digitalisierung. Viele Hoffnungen der griechischen Bevölkerung ruhten auf dem neuen Premier ...
Decades of studies identify personality traits as an important predictor of life outcomes. However, previous investigations of personality-outcome associations have not taken a principled approach to covariate use or other sampling strategies to ensure the robustness of personality-outcome associations. The result is that it is unclear (1)...
We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany resulted in differing gender norms regarding who should be the family breadwinner. We use data for three periods between 1983 and 2016 from the German Socio-Economic Panel. ...
