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Social capital is a resource derived from a person's social network and is important for various outcomes. Social capital declines over time and requires investments to avoid further declines or to increase the stock. However, certain life events can negatively affect social capital. This paper analyzes how informal caregiving, defined as unpaid assistance to persons who cannot perform the usual ...
In:
Social Science Research
85 (2020), January 2020, 102319
| Andreas Eberl
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Abstract Even in the online dating era, individuals will seek intimate partners who live physically nearby. This paper considers the validity of different partner market measures in German NUTS-3 regions; the often used sex ratio is contrasted with different versions of the availability ratio (AR) and versions of the partner market density (PMD). The paper discusses (a) how conceptional aspects of ...
In:
Population, Space and Place
25 (2019), 4, e2178
| Jan Eckhard, Johannes Stauder
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Major economic, environmental, or social shocks induce uncertainty, which in turn may impact economic development and may require institutional change. Based on the idea that catastrophic events (CEs) affect people’s perceptions of reality and judgments about the future, this paper analyzes the effect of CEs on people’s worries in terms of social, economic, and environmental issues. In particular, ...
In:
Empirical Economics
59 (2020), 2, 951-975
| Andree Ehlert, Jan Seidel, Ursula Weisenfeld
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Previous research has shown that women providing family care tend to decrease paid work. We take the opposite perspective and examine how current and previous family care tasks influence women’s likelihood to (re-)enter employment or to increase working hours. Family care is defined as caring for an ill, disabled or frail elderly partner, parent, or other family member. Using German Socio-Economic ...
In:
Journal of Family Issues
41 (2020), 9, 1387-1419
| Ulrike Ehrlich, Katja Möhring, Sonja Drobnič
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Retired parents might invest time in their adult children by providing childcare. Such intergenerational time transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on the fertility of their adult children. We use representative panel data from Germany to link observations on parents and their adult children. We exploit eligibility ages ...
In:
European Economic Review
124 (2020), May 2020, 103392
| Peter Eibich, Thomas Siedler
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Köln:
IW Köln,
2019,
(IW-Kurzbericht Nr. 39)
| Dominik H. Enste, Anja Katrin Orth
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Hintergrund und Ziel der Arbeit: Diversität nimmt auch bei Erwerbstätigen zu. Traditionelle Ansätze des betrieblichen Arbeits- und Gesundheitsschutzes reichen meist nicht aus, um den damit einhergehenden Herausforderungen zu begegnen. Auch fehlt es derzeit an Wissen über spezifische Bedarfslagen, um adäquate Interventionen unter Einbindung von Erwerbstätigen mit Migrationshintergrund zu entwickeln. ...
In:
Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz
62 (2019), 9, 1083-1091
| Jennifer Becker, Gudrun Faller
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Objective To examine the association between divorce and partners' allocation of paid and unpaid work, and change over a few key decades in both West Germany and the United States. Background Past research has indicated that partner similarity in time spent on both paid and unpaid work is associated with a higher risk of marital dissolution. We explore whether the association between paid work ...
In:
Family Relations
69 (2020), 1, 207-226
| Daniela Bellani, Gosta Esping-Andersen
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Der Generationenmonitor ist ein Modell, das auf der Methodik von Generationenkontenmodellen basiert. Es dient dazu, langfristige Auswirkungen der Gesetzgebung und der politischen Rahmenbedingungen zu analysieren und dadurch gegebenenfalls Handlungsbedarf abzuleiten. Dabei werden zum einen Annahmen über zukünftige Trends (wie etwa den demographischen Wandel oder eine steigende Frauenerwerbsbeteiligung) ...
Köln:
IW Köln,
2019,
(IW-Report 38)
| Johannes Berger, Martin Beznoska, Susanna Kochskämper, Ludwig Strohner
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Die Grenzabgabenbelastung ist eine relevante Größe für die Einkommenserzielung und die Entscheidung, ob und in welchem zeitlichen Umfang die eigene Arbeitskraft auf dem Arbeitsmarkt angeboten wird. Bei Beschäftigten, die keine Sozialtransfers beziehen, hängt die marginale Belastung sowohl von der Einkommensteuer und dem Solidaritätszuschlag als auch von den Beiträgen zur gesetzlichen Sozialversicherung ...
Köln:
IW Köln,
2019,
(IW-Report 21)
| Martin Beznoska, Tobias Hentze