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Overcoming Barriers to Service Access: Refugees’ Professional Support Service Utilization and the Impact of Human and Social Capital

After arriving in a new country, refugees are most often dependent on professional support to reestablish their livelihood. It is however well documented that refugees face barriers when seeking access to services aimed at facilitating their settlement and integration. This study examines refugees’ support service needs and their actual utilization and investigates the impact of social and human capital ...

Public Good Provision and Local Employment: Evidence from Grammar School Closures in East Germany

This paper assesses the impact of public good provision on the spatial distribution of employment as predicted by a local labor market model that allows for commuting. Using local grammar school closures in East Germany after 2000 in a difference-in-differences estimation framework coupled with an entropy balancing strategy, we find that the school closures triggered a decline in the number of (employed) ...

Wealth of Children from Single-Parent Families: Low Levels and High Inequality in Germany

Families’ economic wealth is a resource that can provide children with crucial advantages early in their lives. Prior research identified substantial variation of wealth levels between different family types with children from single-parent families being most disadvantaged. The causes of this disadvantage, how much the disadvantage varies between children and how the non-resident parents’ wealth may ...

Financial Literacy and Intra-household Decision Making: Evidence from Rwanda

Research has consistently shown that women’s involvement in household decision making positively affects household outcomes such as nutrition and education of children. Is financial literacy a determinant for women to participate in intra-household decision making? Using data on savings groups in Rwanda, we examine this relationship and show that women with higher financial literacy are more involved ...

Zu Beginn von vierter Corona-Welle: Eltern bei geöffneten Kitas und Schulen zufriedener und mit weniger Sorgen

Eltern waren zu Beginn der vierten Corona-Welle im Oktober deutlich zufriedener mit dem Familienleben, der Kinderbetreuung und dem Leben allgemein als in den Lockdowns im vergangenen Winter und Frühjahr. Gleichzeitig äußerten sie deutlich weniger Sorgen als im April, etwa mit Blick auf die Bildung und wirtschaftliche Zukunft ihrer Kinder. Trotz vergleichsweiser hoher Inzidenzen unter jungen Menschen ...

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The Education of Recently Arrived Refugees in Germany: Conditions, Processes, and Outcomes

Around the world, the number of refugees is at a record high. Although most forciblydisplaced persons seek refuge within their home country or in a neighboringstate (UNHCR, 2020), a large number of refugees have reached Europe in recentyears, and many of them have settled in Germany (Eurostat, 2020).1As many refugees were children and adolescents when they arrived in Germany(Bundesamt für Migration ...

Center-Based Care and Parenting Activities

We examine the relationship between parenting activities and center-based care using time diary and survey data for mothers in Germany. While mothers using center-based care spend significantly less time in the presence of their child, we find that differences in the time spent on specific activities such as reading, talking, and playing with the child are relatively small or zero. The pattern of results ...

"This Time is Different“?

Die Coronakrise ist die erste globale Pandemie seit mehr als 100 Jahren. In dieser Hinsicht ist die Coronakrise einzigartig und damit wahrhaft „different“. Aber ist sie auch „einzigartig“ wenn die Reaktion der Finanzinstitute auf die Krise in den Blick genommen wird? Vor dem Hintergrund des mehrgliedrigen Bankensystems in Deutschland untersucht der Beitrag, ob in der Coronakrise das Kreditgewerbe bei ...

Zehn Ansatzpunkte für die Kita-Politik der nächsten Legislaturperiode

Den Kita-Ausbau fortführen, einheitliche Qualitätsmindeststandards festlegen, Zentren für Familien ausbauen und den Erzieherberuf attraktiver machen: Dies sind nur einige Ansätze eines Zehn- Punkte-Programms für die Kita-Politik der nächsten Bundesregierung, das in diesem DIW aktuell skizziert wird. Der Handlungsbedarf besteht nicht nur, aber auch vor dem Hintergrund der Corona- Pandemie. Sie hat noch ...