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In this paper, we ask whether the main cause of asylum migration, that is, violence in the home country, still affects the life satisfaction of refugees even after they reach a safe country. We combine individual-level survey data on refugees in Germany with country-level data on terror fatalities. The timing of the survey interviews generates exogenous variation in the intensity of recent terror activity ...
In:
World Development
146 (2021), 105562
| Sekou Keita, Paul Schewe
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Do life-course transitions in adulthood shape political orientations? One framework suggests that life events expose people to new information, allowing actors to assess their political beliefs and preferences in response to these social experiences. An alternative framework suggests that the link between one's life-course position and personal politics may be ambiguous, and early experiences ...
In:
Sociological Science
11 (2024), 907-933
| Turgut Keskintuerk
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In der vorliegende Studie wird auf Grundlage von Bourdieus Kapitaltheorie empirisch mit Daten des SOEPs analysiert, welche Determinanten die Wahl der Sportart von Jugendlichen beeinflussen. Die Studie hebt sich von vorherigen in der Weise ab, dass keine binäre Aussage über favorisierte Sportarten untersucht, sondern die Wahl einer relevanten Alternative in das Modell aufgenommen wird. So werden die ...
In:
German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research
(online first) (2024),
| Julian Alexander Klöcker, Malte Schurade, Frank Daumann
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Many countries rely on short-time work to prevent mass layoffs in economic crises. Despite serving to protect jobs, short-time work may trigger job insecurity perceptions, which may impair employee well-being. Moreover, past experiences of unemployment may increase susceptibility to job insecurity in response to short-time work. Drawing on Conservation of Resources (COR) Theory, Appraisal Theory and ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
25 (2024), 6, 72
| Katharina Klug, Claudia Bernhard-Oettel, Magnus Sverke
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Drei Jahre lang erhielten 122 Personen Geld, einfach so. Zwei von ihnen ziehen jetzt ein erstes Fazit. Doch das Konzept wird zunehmend kritisiert.
In:
taz online, 2024-05-10
(2024),
| Hannes Koch
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Mehr als die Hälfte der Geflüchteten, die in den vergangenen Jahren nach Deutschland kamen, haben inzwischen einen Job. Eine Studie zeigt: Sie arbeiten zunehmend als Fachkräfte.
In:
Spiegel online, 2023-11-29
(2023),
| Katharina Koerth
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Who makes it to the top? We use the leading, socio-economic survey in Germany supplemented by extensive data on the rich to answer this question. We identify the key predictors for belonging to the top 1 percent of income, wealth, and both distributions jointly. Although we consider many, only a few traits matter: Entrepreneurship and self-employment in conjunction with a sizable inheritance of company ...
In:
The Review of Income and Wealth
71 (2025), 2, e70015
| Johannes König, Christian Schluter, Carsten Schröder
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We analyze socioemotional skills’ role for destination-language proficiency among recent refugees in Germany. While socioemotional skills have been shown to predict educational outcomes, they have been overlooked for immigrants’ language acquisition. We extend a well-established model of destination-language proficiency and assume that socioemotional skills’ effects manifest through the channels of ...
London:
Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London,
2021,
(CReAM Discussion Paper Series No. 20/20)
| Yuliya Kosyakova
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Extending free movement of workers (FMW) to the new Member States from Central and Eastern Europe was one of the most controversial political decisions in the history of the European Union. In this article, we study how the introduction of FMW affected immigrants’ labor market integration in Germany. Using data from the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample,1 we show that the introduction of FMW was associated ...
In:
Migration Studies
9 (2021), 4, 1734-1762
| Yuliya Kosyakova, Herbert Brücker
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Seit Beginn des russischen Angriffskriegs auf die Ukraine ist die Anzahl ukrainischer Staatsangehörigen in Deutschland von 156.000 auf 1.240.000 angestiegen. Obwohl ein erheblicher Teil dieser Menschen nach dem Kriegsende plant, in die Ukraine zurückzukehren, zeigt sich, dass mit zunehmender Kriegsdauer immer mehr einen längeren oder dauerhaften Aufenthalt in Deutschland in Betracht ziehen. Vor diesem ...
Nürnberg:
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB),
2024,
(IAB-Forschungsbericht No. 9/2024)
| Yuliya Kosyakova, Herbert Brücker