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The new German federal government coalition is planning a significant tax break for workers of retirement age: the active pension (Aktivrente). With the active pension, workers who have reached the statutory retirement age may earn up to 2,000 euros a month tax-free, a move that the government is hoping will motivate more pensioners to work longer to counteract the skilled worker shortage. Microsimulation ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report 25+26/2025
DIW Weekly Report 25+26/2025
| Stefan Bach, Hermann Buslei, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Joris Pieper
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This paper exploits the linkage of German administrative social security data (GER: Integrierte Erwerbsbiografien) and survey data from the socio-economic panel (GER: Sozio-ökonomisches Panel, SOEP) for the characterization of measurement error in metrics quantifying individual-specific labor earnings in Germany. We find that survey participants’ decision whether to consent to linkage is non-random ...
Cornell University,
2025,
(arXiv preprint)
| Nico Thurow
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Objective: This article studies the intergenerational stability of employment in families of immigrants cross-nationally by investigating to what extent contextual differences between sending and receiving countries affect the transmission of labour force participation from mothers to daughters. Background: It is often argued that a low level of labour force participation among female immigrants reflects ...
In:
Journal of Family Research
33 (2021), 2, 351-404
| Dorian Tsolak, Marvin Bürmann, Martin Kroh
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We use data from the British Household Panel Survey and Labour Force Survey to examine the relationship between the demand for post compulsory education and prevailing labour market conditions. We explicitly incorporate the role of family resources by allowing effects to differ between young people whose families are home owners and those whose families are not home owners. We find evidence that household ...
2013,
| Alberto Tumino, Mark Taylor
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Laut einer Studie ist die Zahl der erwerbstätigen, geflüchteten Frauen doppelt so hoch als noch vor drei Jahren. Dennoch arbeiten deutlich weniger geflüchtete Frauen als Männer in Deutschland.
In:
Handelsblatt online, 2023-05-10
(2023),
| o. V.
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1. Februar 2024 · Der ehemalige Leiter der sozio-ökonomischen Panels ist gestorben.
In:
Frankfurter Allgemeine online, 2024-02-01
(2024),
| o. V.
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Automation transforms work at a rapid pace, with gradually increasing shares of the workforce being at risk of replacement by machines. However, little is known about how this risk is affecting workers. In this study, we investigate the impact of exposure to a high risk of automation at work on the subjective (self-reported health, anxiety, and health satisfaction) and objective (healthcare use and ...
Rostock:
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research,
2024,
(MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-041)
| Maria Vasiakina, Christian Dudel
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Objectives Change in body weight during the COVID-19 pandemic as an unintended side effect of lockdown measures has been predominantly reported for younger and middle-aged adults. However, information on older adults for which weight loss is known to result in adverse outcomes, is scarce. In this study we describe the body weight change in older adults before, during, and after the COVID-19 lockdown ...
In:
The Journal of nutrition, health and aging
28 (2024), 4, 100206
| Valentin Max Vetter, Johanna Drewelies, Sandra Düzel, Jan Homann, Lil Meyer-Arndt, Julian Braun, Anne Pohrt, Friederike Kendel, Gert G. Wagner, Andreas Thiel, Lars Bertram, Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, Denis Gerstorf, Ilja Demuth
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Spätestens seit der Einführung des Geschlechtseintrags „divers“ im Personenstandsrecht im Jahr 2018 ist die quantitativ-empirische Sozialforschung mit der Frage konfrontiert, wie Geschlecht in Befragungen erhoben werden soll. Dieser Beitrag setzt sich kritisch mit der aktuellen Erhebungspraxis auseinander und untersucht, wie Geschlecht in Befragungen konzeptionell trennscharf und empirisch valide erhoben ...
In:
Zeitschrift für Soziologie
53 (2024), 4, 364-386
| Lisa de Vries, Mirjam Fischer, David Kasprowski
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Für das im Jahr 2025 stattfindende 100-jährige Jubiläum des DIW Berlin und dessen Geschichte ist die hier vorgelegte Dokumentation eines 1999 geführten Gesprächs zwischen den ehemaligen DIW-Abteilungsleitern Fritz Franzmeyer und Reinhard Pohl einerseits und Gert G. Wagner andererseits von Interesse, das die Frage thematisiert, warum das Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) in der ...
Berlin:
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin),
2023,
(DIW Discussion Papers No. 2038)
| Gert G. Wagner