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An online survey was conducted in Germany during the lockdown period to assess its psycho-social consequences. A convenience sample N?=?2009 (comparable representation of former GDR and West Germany, 71% females) took part in the survey. The results show a negative impact of the corona pandemic on subjective well-being, health and life satisfaction. We also found a lower sense of security and an increase ...
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European Societies
23 (2021), sup1, S905-S922
| Heike Ohlbrecht, Josephine Jellen
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An inappropriate handling of cross-sectional heterogeneity renders estimates of causal effects inaccurate and uninformative. The present paper discusses how the direct modeling of cross-sectional differences via semiparametric models represents a useful bridge between a statistical approach, where the conditional distribution of the dependent variable returns any value of the outcome given any value ...
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Econometric Reviews
41 (2022), 3, 359-372
| Giacomo Benini, Stefan Sperlich
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The paper analyses the effects of perceived discrimination on the self-rated health of immigrants living in Germany. Previous research indicates that immigrants? health is negatively affected by the psychosocial strain caused by perceived discrimination. I analyse whether feelings of belonging to both the origin and the host country play a moderating role in this association: While feelings of belonging ...
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Ethnic and Racial Studies
45 (2022), 15, 2822-2842
| Julia Tuppat
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Research on time-fluctuating links between positive affect and cortisol is inconsistent and mostly based on young to middle-aged samples. The current project investigated how moment-to-moment changes in positive and negative affect are associated with moment-to-moment changes in cortisol levels in older adults’ daily lives and whether those associations are moderated by differences in health status ...
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Psychoneuroendocrinology
133 (2021), 105403
| Theresa Pauly, Johanna Drewelies, Karolina Kolodziejczak, Martin Katzorreck, Anna J. Lücke, Oliver K. Schilling, Ute Kunzmann, Hans-Werner Wahl, Beate Ditzen, Nilam Ram, Denis Gerstorf, Christiane A. Hoppmann
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There is evidence that loneliness and unemployment each have a negative impact on public health. Both are experienced across the life course and are of increasing concern in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. This review seeks to examine the strength and direction of the relationship between loneliness and unemployment in working age individuals, and in particular the potential for a self-reinforcing ...
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Social Science & Medicine
287 (2021), 114339
| N. Morrish, A. Medina-Lara
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Purpose: We examined 10 job characteristics in a large population-based sample and tested for positive and negative effects on mental health. In addition, we tested for possible effects on mental health from interactions with locus of control and self-esteem. Methods: The sample comprised longitudinal data on 2353 male and 1960 female employees from the German socio-economic panel collected between ...
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International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health
94 (2021), 1, 43-53
| Anja Limmer, Astrid Schütz
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An important aspect when analyzing economic inequality between households with children is time. At given monetary incomes, the material well-being of families may be very different depending on how much time parents have at their disposal. In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental time restrictions. Building on a study by ...
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The Journal of Economic Inequality
19 (2021), 1, 73-95
| Melanie Borah, Andreas Knabe, Kevin Pahlke
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Background: This study seeks to explore potential causal mechanisms involved in the observed associations between several socioeconomic status (SES) indicators, well-being and mortality, by taking a life course perspective focusing on (i) the trajectory of income and domain-specific well-being indicators, (ii) the influence of different SES indicators on well-being and mortality, (iii) the interactions ...
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Archives of Public Health
79 (2021), 1, 40
| Diego Montano
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We investigate whether a historical pension concept, the tontine, yields enough innovative potential to extend and improve the prevailing privately funded pension solutions in a modern way. The tontine basically generates an age-increasing cash flow, which can help to match the increasing financing needs at old ages. In contrast to traditional pension products, however, the tontine generates volatile ...
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European Actuarial Journal
11 (2021), 1, 49-86
| Jan-Hendrik Weinert, Helmut Gründl
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Using three waves of the Germany's individual-level panel data, this paper analyses whether there are any changes in the trust levels of East German migrants who move to the former Western German regions after the reunification. The results demonstrate that the duration of living in the West is positively associated with East German migrants’ trust and that the labour market is the possible channel ...
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Social Indicators Research
155 (2021), 3, 959-981
| Seong Hee Kim