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Does Schooling Affect Socioeconomic Inequalities in Educational Attainment? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Germany

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 ...

Parental ages and the intergenerational transmission of education: evidence from Germany, Norway, and the United States

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 ...

Teilzeitarbeit: Am liebsten eine Vier-Tage-Woche

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.

Flight-related determinants of health-related quality of life of asylum seekers and refugees in Germany: a longitudinal study based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

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 ...

Migration-related determinants of health-care service utilization among persons with a direct migration background in Germany: an exploratory study based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

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 ...

Dumpinglöhne gibt's nicht mehr

Deutschland hatte einst den größten Niedriglohnsektor Europas. Exklusive Daten zeigen: Der Mindestlohn hat diesen Sektor verkleinert – und die Reallöhne steigen lassen.

Schon Teilsanierungen helfen, Energiekosten zu sparen

Hauseigentümer mit wenig Geld scheuen Sanierungen. Dadurch würden Einsparpotenziale bei ineffizienten Gebäuden nicht erschlossen, warnt eine DIW-Studie und rät zu Teilsanierungen.

Kommentar: Nichtwahl als Wahlhandlung

Ruhestand und Gesundheit: Evidenz aus Deutschland (Master-Thesis)

PDOSPERT: A New Scale to Predict Domain-Specific Risk-Taking Behaviors in Times of a Pandemic

ABSTRACT Understanding risk tolerance is crucial for predicting and changing behavior across various domains, including health and safety, finance, and ethics. This remains true during a crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and leads to a key question: Do current risk measures reliably predict risk-taking in the drastically different context of a pandemic? The Domain Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) ...