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Die finanzielle Situation pflegender Angehöriger in Deutschland ist zunehmend in den Fokus des öffentlichen Interesses gerückt, dabei wird insbesondere das erhöhte Armutsrisiko informell Pflegender kritisch diskutiert. Gleichzeitig zeichnet sich ab, dass die Bedeutung informeller Pflege weiter steigen wird. Der demographische Wandel erhöht die Nachfrage nach informeller Pflege, während durch eine höhere ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2022,
(Politikberatung kompakt 186)
| Lars Felder, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Mia Teschner
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Minimum wages are increasingly discussed as an instrument against (in-work) poverty and income inequality in Europe. Just recently the German government opted for a substantial ad-hoc increase of the minimum-wage level to €12 per hour mentioning poverty prevention as an explicit goal. We use the introduction of the federal minimum wage in Germany in 2015 to study its redistributive impact on disposable ...
In:
Journal of European Social Policy
33 (2022), 2, 216-232
| Teresa Backhaus, Kai-Uwe Müller
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Die vorliegende Untersuchung analysiert die Wirkkraft des Generationenaustauschs auf das Meinungsklima zu Zugewanderten in Ost- und Westdeutschland. Theoretisch basiert der Beitrag auf Mannheims Generationentheorie sowie auf gruppenkonflikttheoretischen Ansätzen und der Kontakthypothese. Empirische Grundlage für die Kohortenanalysen bietet die theoretisch begründete Generationeneinteilung für die ost- ...
In:
Soziale Welt
73 (2022), 4, 639-379
| Katja Schmidt
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From a biological perspective, humans differ in the speed they age, and this may manifest in both mental and physical health disparities. The discrepancy between an individual’s biological and chronological age of the brain (“brain age gap”) can be assessed by applying machine learning techniques to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data. Here, we examined the links between brain age gap and a broad ...
In:
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
14 (2022), 791222
| Philippe Jawinski, Sebastian Markett, Johanna Drewelies, Sandra Düzel, Ilja Demuth, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, Gert G. Wagner, Denis Gerstorf, Ulman Lindenberger, Christian Gaser, Simone Kühn
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The IAB’s Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) and the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) are the two data sets most commonly used to analyze wage inequality in Germany. While the SIAB is based on administrative reports by employers to the social security system, the SOEP is a survey data set in which respondents self-report their wages. Both data sources have their specific advantages and ...
In:
Journal for Labour Market Research
57 (2023), 1, 8
| Heiko Stüber, Markus M. Grabka, Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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Return migration intentions are complex and are not necessarily followed by future return migration. Our study compares successful return or repeated migration with self-declared return intentions. We take advantage of the latest German Socio-Economic Panel survey dropout studies and fieldwork to observe a wider return migration window than reported in the literature to answer the question of whether ...
In:
International Migration
62 (2024), 3, 73-99
| Hend Sallam
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Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment. Based on two microeconomic datasets, we show that the market share of the Federal Employment Agency as job intermediary declined after the Hartz reforms. We propose ...
In:
IMF Economic Review
72 (2024), 393–440
| Christian Merkl, Timo Sauerbier
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Redistribution and the welfare state have been linked by academic discourse to narratives that portray specific societal groups as ‘deserving’ or ‘undeserving’. The present analysis contributes to this scholarship in a twofold manner. First, it provides a holistic view on the beneficiaries and benefactors of welfare and asks how the public perception of the rich and the poor drives redistributive preferences. ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2023,
(SOEPpapers 1182)
| Matthias Diermeier, Madeleine L. Fischer, Judith Niehues
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The 2022 natural gas price spikes across Europe raised concerns regarding their distributional consequences. This paper investigates the distributional effect of price increases between and, in particular, within different income groups in Germany, accounting for different determinants of gas expenditures. The study finds that low-income households are affected the most by the gas price increase. Low-income ...
In:
Energy Policy
175 (2023), 113472
| Mats Kröger, Maximilian Longmuir, Karsten Neuhoff, Franziska Schütze
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What is the impact of housing upgrades on occupant health? Although economists and policymakers are certain about the health implications of housing upgrades, empirical evidence is largely missing or else only based on small-scale experiments in developing countries. This study provides the first population-representative quasi-experimental estimates based on a large-scale refurbishment program that ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2023,
(SOEPpapers 1186)
| Steffen Künn, Juan Palacios