The reunification of the socialist German Democratic Republic and the capitalist Federal Republic of Germany presents a unique setting for studying the impact of socio-economic and political change on migration. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the interdisciplinary literature on migration between East and West Germany since reunification, conducted in disciplines such as economics, demography, ...
Der Beitrag fußt auf einer Untersuchung über den Einfluss der Aufnahme einer erwerbsbedingten multilokalen Lebensweise auf das zivilgesellschaftliche Engagement anhand quantitativer und qualitativer Daten mittels einer Methodentriangulation. Theoretischen Überlegungen folgend, die auf dem civic voluntarism model, dem resources-centered model sowie der commuter’s strain hypothesis basieren, wird ein ...
Ein funktionierendes Gesundheitssystem ist maßgeblich für das Wohlergehen einer Gesellschaft. Im Jahresgutachten 2022 stellt der Sachverständigenrat für Integration und Migration (SVR) fest, dass Fachkräfte mit Zuwanderungsgeschichte einen unverzichtbaren Beitrag zum deutschen Gesundheitssystem leisten. Um die Versorgung auch künftig zu gewährleisten, sieht er Nachbesserungsbedarf bei der Anerkennung ...
Die Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie ist eine der größten Herausforderungen und gleichzeitig Gelingensbedingung für Geschlechtergerechtigkeit auf dem Arbeitsmarkt und im familiären Bereich. Die vorliegende Dissertation verdeutlicht in drei empirischen Papieren die Relevanz von Sorgearbeit für die Arbeitsmarktpartizipation von Frauen und Männern, sowie die Rolle von Unternehmen für das Unterfangen, ...
Exploiting the random allocation of asylum seekers to di<U+FB00>erent locations in Germany, we study the impact of right-wing voting on refugees’ integration. We <U+FB01>nd that in municipalities with more voting for the right-wing AfD, refugees have worse economic and social integration. These impacts are largest for groups targeted by AfD campaigns and refugees are also more likely to ...
This chapter surveys recent literature on the drivers of mothers’ labour supply in OECD countries. We present a number of facts on the variations across time and across countries of family composition and mothers’ employment. We aim to answer key questions on their decision to return to work after childbirth: How is the decision taken within the household? What are the contemporaneous and longer term ...
Working from home (WfH) has been widely adopted since the Covid-19 pandemic. Pre-pandemic evidence on how hybrid work arrangements relate to labour market outcomes is a scarce and valuable benchmark. We exploit the German Socio-Economic Panel between 1997 and 2014 to investigate how such a work arrangement relates to working hours, wages and job satisfaction for different demographic groups. We find ...
Objective: Leaders differ in their personalities from non-leaders. However, when do these differences emerge? Are leaders “born to be leaders” or does their personality change in preparation for a leadership role and due to increasing leadership experience? Method: Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we examined personality differences between leaders (N = 2683 leaders, women: n ...
This paper studies the effect of air pollution on voting outcomes. We use data from 60 federal and state elections in Germany from 2000 to 2018 and exploit plausibly exogenous fluctuations in ambient air pollution within counties across election dates. Higher air pollution on election day shifts votes away from incumbent parties and towards opposition parties. An increase in the concentration of particulate ...