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Time to leave: Contextual and individual explanations for the timing of leaving home

This dissertation examines heterogeneity in the timing of leaving home at the individual and contextual level. At the individual level, it addresses the well-established finding that young adults from separated families leave home earlier than those from two-parent families. How can these differences in the age at leaving home be explained? What is the role of resources and relationships in the parental ...

Der Zugang zu Wohneigentum wird weiter erschwert

Aufgrund der Zinsentwicklung ist Wohneigentum attraktiv, viele Haushalte können in den eigenen vier Wänden heute günstiger leben als zur Miete. Dennoch stagniert die Wohneigentumsquote, u. a. weil die hohen Erwerbsnebenkosten den Zugang versperren. Mit dem nun diskutierten Umwandlungsverbot würde eine weitere Hürde entstehen, die gerade den Erwerb von Eigentum in den Großstädten beeinträchtigt.

Alter und Gesundheit

Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die Sichtweisen auf Alter und Gesundheit sowie deren Zusammenspiel im gesellschaftlichen Kontext. Aus medizinisch-biologischer Sicht ist Altern ein zellbiologischer und genetischer Prozess, während die sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektive das subjektive Erleben von Alterungsprozessen sowie die Einstellungen zum Älterwerden hervorhebt. Auch Gesundheit ist ein wesentlich ...

Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany

Why do voters for the radical right tend to cluster in specific geographic locations? Many scholars have emphasized the economic roots of radical right support. Other scholarship highlights the role of the urban-rural divide, contending that the radical right finds support in low population density locations due to distinctive social values and strong place-based social identities found in rural areas. ...

Waiting for Kin: A Longitudinal Study of Family Reunification and Refugee Mental Health in Germany

Involuntarily or planned – many refugees flee their home country alone, leave behind spouses and children but also siblings, parents and other family members they otherwise care for. Reunification in hosting communities is difficult, as governments limit institutional family reunifications and the individual journey of kin is dangerous and often illegal. Having family abroad is mentally distressing ...

De-routinization of Jobs and Polarization of Earnings – Evidence from 35 Countries

The job polarization hypothesis suggests a U-shaped pattern of employment growth along the earnings/skill distribution, which is driven by simultaneous growth in the employment of highskill/high-earnings and low-skill/low-earnings occupations due to Routine-Biased Technological Change (RBTC) [Acemoglu and Autor, 2011]. An aspect of both high social and political relevance is the implications of job ...

The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation

This article develops and estimates a dynamic model where individuals differ in ability and location preference to evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants’ careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our analysis highlights a novel form of selective return migration where those who plan to stay longer invest more into skill acquisition, with important implications ...

Language, or Dialect, That Is the Question. How Attitudes Affect Language Statistics Using the Example of Low German

This paper explores how attitudes affect the seemingly objective process of counting speakers of varieties using the example of Low German, Germany’s sole regional language. The initial focus is on the basic taxonomy of classifying a variety as a language or a dialect. Three representative surveys then provide data for the analysis: the Germany Survey 2008, the Northern Germany Survey 2016, and the ...

Spracheinstellungen in Deutschland - Was die Menschen in Deutschland über Sprache denken

Welche Dialekte werden in Deutschland gesprochen? Sprache in Zahlen: Folge 2

Das Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim (IDS) hat in Kooperation mit dem Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) eine deutschlandweite Repräsentativerhebung unter 4.380 Personen zum Sprachrepertoire der Menschen in Deutschland und zu ihren Spracheinstellungen durchgeführt: die Deutschland-Erhebung 2017. Eine Einführung in die Deutschland-Erhebung 2017 findet sich im ersten Teil ...