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When choosing a new location migrants usually improve their economic situation, but what about their subjective well being (SWB)? Based on longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, I investigate the impact of migration from eastern to western Germany on SWB. Hypotheses are derived from human capital theory but also from psychological approaches. Fixed-effects models enable me to ...
In:
Journal of Social Research & Policy
2 (2011), 2, 73-91
| Silvia M. Melzer
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This article analyses migration from East to West Germany, focusing on the influence of education on migration and on the self-selection processes involved in decisions regarding education and migration. Using human capital, signalling, and segmentation theory, hypotheses are derived on the influence of education on migration. The migration patterns for men and women are investigated on the basis of ...
In:
European Sociological Review
29 (2013), 2, 210-228
| Silvia M. Melzer
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This paper examines the determinants of family migration from a post-socialist country, the former German Democratic Republic (today, the eastern part of reunified Germany), to a western country, West Germany. The paper seeks to answer the following questions: (1) How does the migration behavior of married and cohabitating men and women differ from that of individuals who live alone? (2) What factors ...
In:
European Societies
15 (2013), 3, 423-445
| Silvia M. Melzer
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<b>Objective</b>: This paper investigates commuting and interregional migration from eastern to western Germany, and asks, first: Who chooses to migrate and who chooses to commute? Second: Does commuting serve as a stepping-stone or as a long-term alternative to migration? And third: What role does education and educational–occupational mismatch play in those choices? <b>Methods</b>: ...
In:
Demographic Research
41 (2019), 16, 461-476
| Silvia Maja Melzer, Thomas Hinz
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In the present study, we examine employment biographies of women using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Specifically, we compare the cohort of the baby boomers (1956–1965) with two older cohorts (1936–1945 and 1946–1955) by carrying out sequence analyses to investigate changes in their employment careers. Based on the biography sequences, we consider four different clusters to identify typical ...
In:
Advances in Life Course Research
16 (2011), 2, 65-82
| Julia Simonson, Laura Romeo Gordo, Nadiya Titova
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Before the 90s, men’s employment careers in East and West Germany were quite similar, despite their widely differing institutional settings. Before reunification, employment biographies were mainly dominated by full-time employment in both East and West. After 1989 the GDR was incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany and almost all East German institutions were supplanted by adapted West German ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2011,
(SOEPpapers 391)
| Julia Simonson, Laura Romeu Gordo, Nadiya Kelle
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In the literature there is plenty of evidence available on the effect of childbearing on female employment biographies. In the present paper, we extend the analysis to men and show how parenthood differently affects employment biographies of men and women. We also investigate how these differences change with time. Concretely, we are interested in the question whether in the process of social change ...
In:
Fathering
12 (2014), 3, 320-336
| Julia Simonson, Laura Romeu Gordo, Nadiya Kelle
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Until the mid-1980s, labour markets in Germany were characterized by a high level of employment stability. Employment biographies of men were dominated by full-time employment in both East and West Germany and were hence quite similar in this respect, despite the two regions’ enormously different institutional settings. Since that time however, important changes have occurred. Labour markets have become ...
In:
Current Sociology
63 (2015), 3, 387-410
| Julia Simonson, Laura Romeu Gordo, Nadiya Kelle
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In:
Internationales Institut f. Empirische Sozialökonomie (INIFES), et al. ,
Erwerbsarbeit und Erwerbsbevölkerung im Wandel. Anpassungsprobleme einer alternden Gesellschaft
Frankfurt / New York: Campus
79-110
| Dorit Sing
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In:
Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ)
(2001), B 3-4, 31-38
| Dorit Sing