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This article examines Norwegian lower-secondary students who enrol in fast-track programs in mathematics. These fast-track programs are designed to accommodate high-performing students who want a faster learning pace than the average student. In general, both educational performance and choice depend on class origin, ethnicity, and gender, according to research. Therefore, in studying the probability ...
In:
European Societies
26 (2024), 1, 91-116
| Håvard Helland, Øyvind Wiborg, Karl Ingar Kittelsen Røberg
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In the context of the present thesis, an instrument for the assessment of subclinical stress symptoms was developed and investigated. For this purpose, the exposure to stress, other socio-economic risk factors, and childhood adversities were investigated on the basis of representative samples both of the general population as well as of forensic patient populations. Furthermore, subclinical stress ...
2021,
| Elisa Helms
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Over the last several decades, a large number of developed countries has not only witnessed a downturn in civic engagement, but has also seen the breakdown of traditional family structures. Despite these coinciding trends, Putnam argues in Bowling alone (2000) that none of the major observed declines in civic engagement can be accounted for by the decline in the traditional family. In this paper, we ...
Bern:
2012,
| Timo Hener, Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler
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Job satisfaction has been found to increase with age. However, we still have a very limited understanding of how job satisfaction changes as people approach retirement. This is important as the years before retirement present specific challenges for older workers. We employed a time-to-retirement approach to investigate (i) mean levels of change in job satisfaction in the decade before retirement, ...
In:
European Journal of Ageing
21 (2024), 1, 33
| Georg Henning, Graciela Muniz-Terrera, Andreas Stenling, Martin Hyde
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Measures of private wealth often refer to households or tax-units, but how does household wealth relate to individual welfare? Analogous to household economies of scale for consumption, this paper offers a methodology and empirical results to account for household wealth scale effects. These scale effects vary depending on the purpose of savings: funding consumption versus holding wealth for motives ...
In:
Review of Income and Wealth
71 (2025), 1, e70002
| Severin Rapp
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Aim: Maintaining transnational ties may be an indication of poor integration into the host society (according to classical ‘assimilation theory’) or may convey additional capital resources to immigrants (the ‘transmigrant’ view of migration). Consequences for health would be negative in the first and positive in the second scenario. We tested the hypotheses that (1) maintaining transnational ties may ...
In:
Journal of Public Health
27 (2019), 4, 507-517
| Oliver Razum, Jürgen Breckenkamp, Margit Fauser
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As population aging will likely lead to an increasing number of people in need of care, the demand for informal care is expected to rise. In this context, it is often discussed whether financial incentives can motivate more individuals to assume caregiving responsibilities. We analyze the potential effect of financial incentives on the provision of informal care by estimating a structural model with ...
In:
Health Economics
34 (2025), 3, 442–455
| Mara Rebaudo, Lena Calahorrano, Kathrin Hausmann
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We use quarterly panel data from the COME-HERE survey covering five European countries to analyse three facets of the experience of loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, in terms of prevalence, loneliness peaked in April 2020, followed by a U-shape pattern in the rest of 2020, and then remained relatively stable throughout 2021 and 2022. We then establish the individual determinants of loneliness ...
In:
Economics & Human Biology
55 (2024), 101427
| Alessio Rebechi, Anthony Lepinteur, Andrew E. Clark, Nicholas Rohde, Claus Vögele, Conchita D’Ambrosio
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Inspired by the literature on social polarisation and residential segregation we draw on a probabilistic approach to pursue the evolution of household location preferences in West Germany. Using microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the period 1984-2020 we demonstrate that structural economic change was accompanied by an increasing preference for residence in compact housing close ...
Essen:
RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung,
2024,
(Ruhr Economic Papers #1126)
| Uwe Neumann, Christoph M. Schmidt
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Zunehmende Stadt-Land-Unterschiede beim Wohnen finden in der öffentlichen Diskussion und in der Regionalpolitik starke Beachtung. Der Artikel diskutiert, inwieweit Mikrodaten aus dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP) genutzt werden können, um die geänderten Wohnstandortpräferenzen besser zu verstehen. Anhand ausgewählter Indikatoren wird unter anderem deutlich, dass in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten Wohnungen ...
In:
Wirtschaftsdienst
104 (2024), 10, 686-691
| Uwe Neumann, Christoph M. Schmidt