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Over the last decades, the number of immigrants in Germany has been rising steadily. One result of this is that currently, around 40% of children in the country have immigrant parents. Existing studies report rather mixed results concerning their mental health outcomes. The present study provides some insight into factors that affect the mental health of this population. We compared emotional and behavioral ...
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Journal of Child and Family Studies
31 (2022), 1, 155–168
| Ronja A. Runge, Heide Glaesmer, Julian Schmitz, Yuriy Nesterko
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Study aims Using a cross-country lens, we investigate the links between longitudinal work trajectories and health among parents with children under age 18. Background Employment serves as a valuable resource, affording us a decent standard of living. The rising dominance of digital and technology, together with the service economy since the 1980s, has transformed the utility of employment from a resource ...
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PLOS ONE
21 (2026), 6, e0350945
| Wen-Jui Han, Johanna Carrasco Saravia, Matthias Pollmann-Schult, Tinh Doan, Jianghong Li
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to one of the largest population displacements in Europe since World War II. Different from other recent refugee flows, Ukrainian refugees are predominantly women, often separated from partners who remained behind. Using data from the “IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP Survey on Refugees from Ukraine in Germany,” this cross-sectional study examines how separation-related ...
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Scientific Reports
16 (2026), 1, 16803
| Nataliia Levchuk, Domantas Jasilionis, Lisa Kriechel, Martin Bujard
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This study is the first to examine the 2016 reform of Germany’s Residence Act that intended to foster refugee integration by extending the waiting period for permanent residency from 3 to 5 years and introducing requirements, such as proficiency in German and partial financial independence. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we employ a difference-in-differences design to analyse ...
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Journal of International Migration and Integration
(2026),
| Elena Matheny
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Social inequalities in mortality persist in Germany despite high universal health coverage. Yet no study has simultaneously examined sex-specific differences in accumulation, age modification, and life-stage variation in the association between social disadvantage and all-cause mortality across the adult life-course.
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BMC Public Health
26 (2026), 1, 2255
| Daniel Tarekegn Worede, Alfons Hollederer
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6.5 million Ukrainian refugees have been displaced globally since 2022, with one million who registered for temporary protection in Germany under the EU Temporary Protection Directive. Unlike other refugee groups, they were granted immediate access to social security and health care. However, little is known about the differences in health determinants for individuals arriving under the EU Temporary ...
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PLOS Global Public Health
5 (2025), 11, e0004565
| Louise Biddle, Andrea Marchitto, Sabine Zinn
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Background: To date, little is known about the mental health of Ukrainian refugees living in Germany. Therefore, this study aims to describe the prevalence of depressive (DS) and anxiety symptoms (AS) among refugees from Ukraine, identify relevant associated factors, and compare the prevalence of psychological distress across different groups of origin. Methods: The analyses are based on data from ...
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Journal of Health Monitoring
(2026),
| Susanne Bartig, Stefan Liebig, Carmen Koschollek, Adriana Rocio Cardozo Silva, Louise Biddle
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Individuals suffering from self-control problems may benefit from precommitment. This study examines whether individuals with self-control problems use commitment devices in the form of contractual savings for housing (CSH), which is a well-established savings product that promotes household savings and homeownership. The empirical analysis is based on nationally representative German Socio-Economic ...
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Journal of the Finnish Economic Association
7 (2026), 1, 33–57
| Joonas Hirvonen
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This paper estimates the distribution of wealth-related greenhouse gas emissions across the German population, assigning responsibility for emissions to the owners of different asset types. It combines macro-data on the emissions per asset type with micro-data on the asset ownership per individual in Germany in 2019, linking data from national accounts, air emission accounts, and survey data on wealth ...
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Ecological Economics
251 (2027),
| Marla Feldwisch, Miriam Rehm, Bruno Brinkmeier
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This paper examines whether adaptation to income varies over the life cycle. Income and well-being research often distinguishes short-run and long-run income associations, but rarely asks whether the degree of adaptation itself depends on age. Using about three decades of data from the Socio-Economic Panel (1993–2023), we estimate individual fixed-effects distributed-lag models of life satisfaction ...
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The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
35 (2026),
| Alpaslan Akay