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Eine höhere Beitragsbemessungsgrenze soll die Finanzen der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung (GKV) nachhaltig stabilisieren. Begründet wird dies unter anderem mit einer gerechteren Verteilung der Beitragslast. Das gelänge auch bei einem entsprechend niedrigeren Beitragssatz. Tatsächlich geht es aber wohl eher darum, zusätzliche Einnahmen zu erzielen. Das würde aber nicht nur die Besserverdienenden belasten, ...
Köln:
IW Köln,
2023,
(IW-Kurzbericht 39/2023)
| Jochen Pimpertz, Maximilian Stockhausen
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Background Controlled population-based studies on long-term health sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 can help to identify clinical signs specific to “Long COVID” and to evaluate this emerging public health challenge.Aim To examine prevalence differences of Long COVID-associated symptoms among adults with and without SARS-CoV-2 infection in Germany.Methods This population-based, retrospective study (11/2021-2/2022) ...
2023,
(medRxiv)
| Christina Poethko-Müller, Ana Ordonez-Cruickshank, Julia Nübel, Giselle Sarganas, Antje Gößwald, Lorenz Schmid, Angelika Schaffrath Rosario, Jens Hoebel, Martin Schlaud, Christa Scheidt-Nave
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Objective: This study examines whether parental and adolescent life satisfaction is lower when adolescents are on a lower educational trajectory than their parents, and whether this association is mediated by the quality of the parent–adolescent relationship. Background: Existing literature shows that families seek to ensure status maintenance and to avoid downward educational mobility in their children. ...
In:
Family Relations
72 (2023), 1, 234-252
| Matthias Pollmann-Schult
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Anders als den steigenden Neuvertragsmieten in vielen deutschen Großstädten wird den nur langsam steigenden Bestandsmieten wenig Raum in der öffentlichen Debatte um bezahlbaren Wohnraum eingeräumt. In diesem Beitrag zeigen Bernd Raffelhüschen und Sebastian Will auf Basis der Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe, dass die Einkommen in den zurückliegenden Jahren stärker gestiegen sind als die Bestandsmieten. ...
In:
Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik
24 (2023), 3, 318-331
| Bernd Raffelhüschen, Sebastian Will
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Individuals who are socioeconomically disadvantaged are at increased risk for aging-related diseases and perform less well on tests of cognitive function. The weathering hypothesis proposes that these disparities in physical and cognitive health arise from an acceleration of biological processes of aging. Theories of how life adversity is biologically embedded identify epigenetic alterations, including ...
In:
Clinical Epigenetics
15 (2023), 1, 70
| Laurel Raffington, Ted Schwaba, Muna Aikins, David Richter, Gert G. Wagner, Kathryn Paige Harden, Daniel W. Belsky, Elliot M. Tucker-Drob
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In recent decades, the number of large-scale surveys that have included measures of the Big Five personality traits in their standard questionnaires has grown sharply both in Germany and internationally. Consequently, a vast, heterogeneous, high-quality data base is now readily available to personality psychologists for secondary analyses. In this paper, we provide an overview of 25 public large-scale ...
In:
Personality Science
4 (2023), 1-25
| Beatrice Rammstedt, Lena Roemer, Julie Mutschler, Clemens Lechner
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Working time mismatches – and especially overemployment – continue to be a highly relevant topic in German legislation, business practice and in research. However, it has been rather neglected in empirical absenteeism research. Therefore, the aim of this study is to examine the relationship between contractual overemployment, that is, the difference between contractual and preferred working hours, ...
In:
German Journal of Human Resource Management
38 (2024), 1, 25-58
| Ricarda Reich
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Intergenerational relations have received close attention in the context of population aging and increased childcare provision by grandparents. However, few studies have investigated the psychological consequences of becoming a grandparent. In a preregistered test of grandparenthood as a developmental task in middle and older adulthood, we used representative panel data from the Netherlands (N = 563) ...
In:
European Journal of Personality
37 (2023), 5, 560-586
| Michael D. Krämer, Manon A. van Scheppingen, William J. Chopik, David Richter
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High levels of concerns about immigration pose a threat to the successful integration of immigrants and may even destabilize heterogeneous societies. This study assesses the mechanisms underlying the association between subjective well-being and concerns about immigration. The analyses rely on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (1999-2017), a long-running data set that follows individuals over time ...
In:
European Sociological Review
40 (2024), 4, 686-703
| Fabian Kratz
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Building on a thick strand of the literature on the determinants of higher-order births, this study uses a gender and class perspective to analyse second birth progression rates in Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1990 to 2020, individuals are classified based on their occupation into: upper service, lower service, skilled manual/higher-grade routine nonmanual, and semi-/unskilled ...
In:
European Journal of Population
39 (2023), 1, 5
| Michaela Kreyenfeld, Dirk Konietzka, Philippe Lambert, Vincent Jerald Ramos