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Unjust Income Inequality Prevails Across 29 Countries

The aim of this visualization is to describe justice evaluations of income inequality from a cross-country perspective for more than 72,000 respondents in 29 countries. The analyses were based on data from two large, cross-country survey programs. The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) asked for an evaluation of the overall income distribution, and the European Social Survey (ESS) asked for ...

Integrierte Weiterbildungsberichterstattung (iWBBe) – Grundlage für evidenzbasierte Steuerung der beruflichen Weiterbildung

Equal waiting times for all? Empirical evidence for elective surgeries in the Austrian public healthcare system

Objectives: This study analyses waiting times for elective surgeries and potential determinants, including supplementary private health insurance, visits in the operating physician's private practice and informal payments for faster treatment. Study design: Retrospective patient questionnaire survey. Methods: The survey was conducted in eleven Austrian rehabilitation centres in 2019. Data was ...

Peter Krause: A Pioneer in Household Panel Surveys and Quality of Life Applications

Born in the south of Germany during the mid-1950s, I grew up in the tensions of parents with a [post] World War II background and the political and social re-orientations within the younger generations. My parents were farmers by passion–starting their family life with solid economic and social foundations, albeit against the fragile political background of WWII. My two eldest siblings were born at ...

Early Childcare Expansion and Maternal Health

This paper estimates the effect of increased early childcare availability on maternal health. We focus on a substantial expansion of early childcare in West Germany from 2006 to 2019. By matching county-level childcare attendance rates with individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find that a 10-percentage point increase in childcare availability decreases mothers’ self-assessed ...

Auswirkungen der Kindergrundsicherung auf Armut, Beschäftigung und Wirtschaftswachstum

Die Studie untersucht auf Basis eines mikroökonomisch fundierten makro-ökonomischen Modells die Auswirkungen der Einführung der Kindergrundsicherung auf Kinderarmut, Chancengleichheit, Beschäftigung und Wirtschaftswachstum. Der Fokus liegt auf den langfristigen Effekten, die sich aus der Ausweitung des Leistungsbezugs - zusätzlich 1,5 Millionen Kinder erhalten Unterstützung - ergeben. Die Einführung ...

Fluchterfahrungen und Unterstützung nach der Ankunft

Studying turning points in labour market trajectories – benefits of a panel-based mixed methods design

Turning points describe a fundamental change of direction in a life course trajectory. However, they are challenging to study because of their temporal extension, the complexity of processes at stake during those critical life sequences, and the fact that individuals’ interpretation as well as more objective changes in social status and position play important roles in turning points. Panel-based mixed ...

Reassessing Chronic Strain: A Research Note on Women's Income Dynamics After Divorce and Separation

The economic consequences of divorce and sep a ra tion for women are com monly asso ci ated with the chronic strain model, according to which women's losses are large and per sis tent. This research note shifts the focus to a cri sis model high light ing women's poten tial of, and routes to, recov ery from ini tial losses. Drawing on Ger man SocioEconomic Panel data (1984-2021) on women in ...

Kinderjobs und Chancengerechtigkeit in Deutschland

Nach einer Studie des Instituts der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW) vermitteln die von zahlreichen Kindern im schulpflichtigen Alter ausgeübten Jobs wichtige für den Arbeitsmarkt relevante Fähigkeiten wie Zuverlässigkeit und Eigenständigkeit, und es wird eine Reform des Jugendarbeitsschutzgesetzes angemahnt. Der Beitrag setzt sich mit den Ergebnissen und Bewertungen der Studie auseinander und schlägt Alternativen ...