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Previous work by Hille and Schupp (2015) examined the associations between learning a musical instrument (ML) in childhood and cognitive functioning, academic achievement, personality measures and perceived control using a longitudinal data set, the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In this article we replicate major parts of this study by applying similar methods but now to an extended panel ...
In:
Educational Psychology
45 (2025), 2, 237-256
| Michael Feldhaus, Friederike Koehler, Eva Schurig, Suvi Saarikallio, Gunter Kreutz
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Objective To investigate the impact of various parental health shocks, including parental death, on young adults' life satisfaction and mental health, personality traits, as well as NEET status (i.e., being neither in employment, education, nor training). Background Theoretical considerations and previous cross-sectional studies suggest that parental health problems negatively affect child outcomes ...
In:
Journal of Marriage and Family
(online first) (2025),
| Alessandro Ferrara, Jan P. Heisig, Jonas Radl, Alena Scheinert
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This study investigates the relationship between workplace tasks and participation in work-related continuing training in Germany between 1986 and 1989. This was a period of significant social change commonly associated with “deindustrialization”. Based on a task-based approach and the assumption of routine-biased technological change it is assumed that the routine nature of work tasks correlates with ...
In:
Zeitschrift für Weiterbildungsforschung
48 (2025), 2, 151-174
| Jonas Fey
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Background COVID-19 measures in Germany varied during the pandemic, and it seems natural that in addition to factors such as incidence, health system capacity, etc., these interventions and their social and economic consequences had an impact on the evolution of the population’s well-being. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there has been a suspicion that the health burden would fall mainly on population ...
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Frontiers in Public Health
13 (2025), 1523691
| Emily Finne, Anna Christina Nowak, Oliver Razum
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Unemployment consistently lowers life satisfaction on average, yet the individual impact of job loss varies significantly. The underlying factors driving this heterogeneity remain a subject of ongoing research. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we demonstrate a compelling link between unemployment and loneliness, suggesting that a substantial portion of unemployment’s detrimental impact ...
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Journal of Happiness Studies
26 (2025), 6, 102
| Tim Friehe, Christian Pfeifer
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Einer eigenen Auswertung des Mikrozensus zufolge lebten im Jahr 2021 rund 801.000 Minderjährige in Deutschland, die zu Hause kein Deutsch sprachen. Das sind 5,8 Prozent aller Kinder und Jugendlichen. Deutsch und eine Fremdsprache sprachen 3,04 Millionen Minderjährige oder 21,9 Prozent. Dabei geht die Fremd- und Zweisprachigkeit häufig mit weiteren Risikofaktoren für eine erfolgreiche Bildungslaufbahn ...
In:
IW-Trends
52 (2025), 1,
| Wido Geis-Thöne
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Introduction Primary healthcare (PHC) is key to addressing the health and social needs of refugees. Nurses are often part of multidisciplinary teams in PHC, but little is known about their roles and responsibilities in refugee healthcare. We aimed to synthesise the existing knowledge about models of care (Mo C) for refugees in primary care settings which involve nursing professionals.Methods Systematic ...
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BMJ Global Health
10 (2025), 3, e018105
| Andreas W. Gold, Clara Perplies, Louise Biddle, Kayvan Bozorgmehr
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This paper analyzes the role of health for refugees' integration into host societies' labor markets. We exploit the quasi-random dispersal policies of refugees across regions in Germany to analyze the causal effect of health on employment. Based on regional and temporal heterogeneity in a policy adoption that provided earlier access to health care services through electronic health cards ...
Nürnberg:
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB),
2025,
(IAB-Discussion Paper No. 5/2025)
| Laura Goßner, Philipp Jaschke, Yuliya Kosyakova
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Equality of opportunity is a principle of social justice, although there are different conceptions of it. We distinguish between liberal and radical (in)equality of opportunity. Both conceptions consider unfair inequalities in life outcomes that result from ascribed characteristics such as social origin, migration background, and sex. However, they differ in that liberal inequality of opportunity considers ...
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PNAS Nexus
4 (2025), 5,
| Michael Grätz, Sonia Petrini
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We examined the between-person correlations and within-person reciprocal effects of physical activity, long-standing health issues, self-rated health, and life satisfaction across four panels using random intercept cross-lagged panel models. Data were analyzed from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (HILDA, N = 32,913, 21 waves, 1-year intervals), the German Socio-Economic ...
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Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being
17 (2025), 2, e70027
| Daniel Groß, Carl-Walter Kohlmann