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Previous studies showed that worries about the economic situation and job security are associated with childbearing, but evidence is scarce on whether worries about other personal and social issues are also related to childbearing. Drawing on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, this study examined the relationship between worries about various personal and social issues and the likelihood of having ...
In:
Population and Development Review
50 (2024), 4, 1239-1266
| Kateryna Golovina, Markus Jokela
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Die Bruttostundenlöhne von abhängig Beschäftigten sind im Zeitraum 1995 bis 2021 inflationsbereinigt durchschnittlich um 16,5 Prozent gewachsen, unter den Vollzeitbeschäftigten sogar um 25 Prozent. Insbesondere bei den niedrigsten Löhnen gibt es seit 2013 starke Zuwächse, vor allem aufgrund der Einführung des Mindestlohns 2015 und dessen Erhöhungen in den folgenden Jahren. Im Ergebnis ist der Niedriglohnsektor ...
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DIW Wochenbericht
91 (2024), 5, 67-76
| Markus M. Grabka
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In times of crises, democracies face the challenge of balancing effective interventions with civil liberties. This study examines German states’ responses during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the trade-off between civil liberties and public health. Using state-level variation in mobility restrictions, we employ a difference-in-differences design to show that stay-at-home orders ...
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European Journal of Political Economy
85 (2024), December 2024, 102593
| Daniel Graeber, Lorenz Meister, Panu Poutvaara
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Critical theories of education and the dynamics of skill formation model predict that the education system reproduces socioeconomic inequalities in educational attainment. Previous empirical studies comparing changes in socioeconomic inequalities in academic performance over the summer to changes in these inequalities during the school year have argued, however, that schooling reduces inequalities ...
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Sociological Science
10 (2023), 880-902
| Michael Grätz
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The diverging destinies hypothesis predicts that educational inequality increases in contemporary societies because parents with higher levels of education postpone the birth of their children. This hypothesis is supported by empirical evidence demonstrating that advanced parental ages improve children?s educational outcomes. However, the consequences of socioeconomic differences in parental ages for ...
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European Societies
26 (2024), 5, 1444-1471
| Michael Grätz, Øyvind N. Wiborg
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Montags oder freitags frei oder nur vier Stunden am Tag arbeiten: Für die einen ist es Wunsch, für die anderen Wirklichkeit. Der Anteil derer, die einer Teilzeittätigkeit nachgehen, unterscheidet sich regional oft deutlich. Auffällig sind die Zahlen aus Berlin und Brandenburg.
In:
rbb24, 2023-04-20
(2023),
| Götz Gringmuth-Dallmer
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Germany played a key role as receiving country during the so-called refugee and displacement crisis with about 5 million asylum seekers arriving in the EU between 2014 and 2020. It is well known that asylum seekers and refugees (ASRs) have a high burden of disease and are particularly prone to mental disorders such as trauma, stress-related and affective disorders. Not much is known about the determinants ...
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BMC Public Health
24 (2024), 1, 1965
| Thomas Grochtdreis, Hans-Helmut König, Judith Dams
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It is known that the health-care service utilization in primary care of persons with a direct migration background is lower compared to non-migrants. However, potential migration-related determinants of health-care service utilization are not known. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the associations between health-care service utilization and migration-related characteristics of persons with a ...
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The European Journal of Health Economics
(online first) (2024),
| Thomas Grochtdreis, Hans-Helmut König, Judith Dams
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Deutschland hatte einst den größten Niedriglohnsektor Europas. Exklusive Daten zeigen: Der Mindestlohn hat diesen Sektor verkleinert – und die Reallöhne steigen lassen.
In:
Zeit online, 2024-01-30
(2024),
| Tina Groll
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Hauseigentümer mit wenig Geld scheuen Sanierungen. Dadurch würden Einsparpotenziale bei ineffizienten Gebäuden nicht erschlossen, warnt eine DIW-Studie und rät zu Teilsanierungen.
In:
Handelsblatt online, 2024-05-24
(2024),
| Simone Gröneweg