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Income inequality is a persistent topic of public and political debate. In this context, the focus often shifts from the national level to a more detailed geographical level. In particular, inequality between or within local communities can be assessed. In this article, the estimation of inequality within regions, that is, between households, is considered at a regionally disaggregated level. From ...
In:
Journal of Official Statistics
39 (2023), 2, 203-228
| Marina Runge
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Views of aging predict key developmental outcomes. Less is known, however, about the consequences of constellations of domain-specific perceived gains and losses across the full adult lifespan. First, we explored levels of awareness of age-related gains (AARC-gains) and losses (AARC-losses) in five behavioral domains across adulthood. Second, we identified the number and types of profiles of AARC-gains ...
In:
Psychology and Aging
38 (2023), 8, 837-853
| Serena Sabatini, Fiona S. Rupprecht, Manfred Diehl, Hans-Werner Wahl, Roman Kaspar, Oliver K. Schilling, Denis Gerstorf
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One of the key sociological aspects of the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe after communism was a shift from collectivistic to individualistic orientations. This article observes trends in individualism, operationalized as self-orientation, in Poland and Germany, with the latter further dissected into western and eastern part of the country. While western Germany was originally contrasted ...
In:
International Journal of Comparative Sociology
65 (2024), 5, 614-635
| Ireneusz Sadowski
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Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, many people have fled the war and left their home country. By the end of January 2023, more than one million Ukrainian refugees had been registered in Germany alone. In contrast to refugees from other countries of origin in Germany, Ukrainian citizens can choose their place of residence if they have either found private accommodation ...
In:
Comparative Population Studies
48 (2023), 261-280
| Lenore Sauer, Andreas Ette, Hans Walter Steinhauer, Manuel Siegert, Kerstin Tanis
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Die Ausweitung der Arbeitszeit ist neben der Erhöhung der Erwerbsbeteiligung eine wichtige Stellschraube für die Bewältigung des demografischen Wandels am Arbeitsmarkt. Dabei geht es nicht nur um eine längere Wochenarbeitszeit für Vollzeitbeschäftigte, sondern auch um eine Verlängerung der Arbeitszeit bei Teilzeit oder bestenfalls deren Überführung in Vollzeit. Ein Potenzial für eine derartige Arbeitszeitverlängerung ...
Köln:
IW Köln,
2023,
(IW-Kurzbericht 36/2023)
| Holger Schäfer
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To examine the effect of marriage entry on annual net rather than gross earnings across different institutional settings. Background Previous research focused on men's gross wage marital premium to explore whether selection or specialization explains premiums. However, gross wages do not reflect disposable resources because taxes still have to be deducted. As the tax treatment varies across countries ...
In:
Journal of Marriage and Family
86 (2024), 1, 176-198
| Manuel Schechtl, Nicole Kapelle
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This article shows how late-life incomes from work and pensions evolved in the United Kingdom between 1991 and 2007, the year the Great Recession began. Our main contribution comes from focusing on changes across cohorts in different educational groups while also considering the gender divide. Our statistical analyses based on the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) suggest that deindustrialisation, ...
In:
Ageing and Society
43 (2023), 2, 393-420
| Paul Schmelzer, Alberto Veira-Ramos
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Der Niedriglohn verliert in Sachsen an Bedeutung. Auf der DGB-Armutskonferenz sagt Arbeitsminister Dulig: Geschäfte mit niedrigen Löhnen funktionieren nicht mehr.
In:
Sächsische Zeitung online vom 13.10.2023
(2023),
| Georg Moeritz
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This paper studies the long-term consequences of communism on present-day freedom of expression values in two settings – East Germany and the states linked to the sphere of influence of the former USSR. Exploiting the natural experiment of German separation and later reunification, we show that living under communism has had lasting effects on free speech opinions. While free speech salience has increased ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2023,
(IZA DP No. 16657)
| Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova
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Die Erwerbsbiografie hat einen wesentlichen Einfluss darauf, wie der Renteneintritt die Sterblichkeit beeinflusst. Männer aus manuellen Routinejobs profitieren davon, mit 63 Jahren in den Ruhestand zu gehen. Für Männer und Frauen, die aus gut bezahlten Jobs mit 65 Jahren ihr Berufsleben beenden, steigt hingegen die Sterblichkeit kurz nach der Verrentung.
In:
Forschung aus erster Hand Healthy Ageing
(2020), 09, 10-11
| o. V.