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Introduction: Control beliefs can protect against age-related declines in functioning. It is unclear whether neighborhood characteristics shape how much control people perceive over their life. This article studies associations of neighborhood characteristics with control beliefs of residents of a diverse metropolitan area (Berlin, Germany). Methods: We combine self-report data about perceptions of ...
In:
Gerontology
68 (2022), 2, 214-223
| Johanna Drewelies, Peter Eibich, Sandra Düzel, Simone Kühne, Christian Krekel, Jan Goebel, Jens Kolbe, Ilja Demuth, Ulman Lindenberger, Gert G. Wagner, Denis Gerstorf
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Ziel der vorliegenden Expertise ist ein allgemeiner Überblick über die Epidemiologie der Einsamkeit der in Deutschland lebenden Menschen sowohl vor als auch während der Covid-19 Pandemie. Einsamkeit wird dabei definiert als ein unangenehmes Gefühl, das aus einer wahrgenommenen Diskrepanz zwischen gewünschten und tatsächlich vorhandenen sozialen Beziehungen entsteht (Peplau & Perlman, 1982). Für ...
Frankfurt/Main:
ISS Kompetenznetzwerk Einsamkeit,
2022,
(KNE Expertise 4)
| Theresa Entringer
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Most countries still have a significant gender gap in labor force participation, and this gap is especially large for immigrants. Despite this gap, Germany introduced various forms of home care allowances in the last decade. Parallel to the extension of early child care and the inclusion of a legal claim for it, from 2013 to 2015, a nationwide home care allowance existed for parents who did not use ...
In:
SN Social Sciences
2 (2022), 7, 93
| Tanja Fendel, Beate Jochimsen
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In Deutschland hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren einiges getan im Hinblick auf die gesetzliche Anerkennung von sexueller und Geschlechterdiversität; es ist es jedoch noch immer unzureichend erforscht, wie Menschen mit marginalisierten sexuellen Identitäten oder marginalisierten Geschlechtsidentitäten den Alltag in Deutschland erleben. In dieser Expertise wird das Vorkommen von Einsamkeit unter lesbischen, ...
Frankfurt/Main:
ISS Kompetenznetzwerk Einsamkeit,
2022,
(KNE Expertise 7)
| Mirjam Fischer
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Verfügen Eltern über keine guten Deutschkenntnisse, haben die Kinder deutliche Nachteile im deutschen Bildungssystem. Einer eigenen Auswertung des Soziooekonomischen Panels zufolge hatte im Jahr 2019 bei 10,5 Prozent der unter 16-Jährigen mindestens ein Elternteil und bei 5,2 Prozent hatten beide Elternteile keine guten Sprachfähigkeiten. Betrachtet man nur die rein fremdsprachigen Familien, lagen ...
In:
IW-Trends
49 (2022), 1, 111-132
| Wido Geis-Thöne
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Purpose: Countries have implemented various migration policies targeting the migrants' economic and political integration and social inclusion. However, little is known about the impact of migration policies on migrants' participation in socio-cultural activities and their link with well-being. The first aim of this study is to explore the effect of the Migration Act of 2000 in Germany on ...
In:
Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences
(online first) (2022),
| Eleftherios Giovanis
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We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people’s mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial deterioration in their mental health, self-employed men displayed no significant changes up to early 2021. Financial losses are important in explaining these ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2022,
(DIW Discussion Paper 2002)
| Marco Caliendo, Daniel Graeber, Alexander S. Kritikos, Johannes Seebauer
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Tackling climate change and keeping global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels is one of the major and most challenging issues that our societies are facing. Households are among the prime contributors to annual greenhouse gas emissions, with twenty percent of emissions being generated by residential energy consumption. Therefore, understanding individual decision-making ...
2022,
| Stefano Ceolotto
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This study estimates the lifetime effects of lost instructional time in the classroom on labor market performance. For identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the affected school years with no adjustments in the core curriculum. The lost in-school instruction was mainly compensated for by assigning additional homework. ...
Munich:
CESifo,
2022,
(CESifo Working Paper No. 9892)
| Kamila Cygan-Rehm
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Population ageing poses growing challenges to social security systems, in particular to public pension funds. The study analyses how Working Life Expectancy (WLE) and Healthy Working Life Expectancy (HWLE) in terms of three health indicators developed in Germany. Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) from 2002 to 2018 (n = 211,141), time trends in labour force rates, mental and physical ...
In:
European Journal of Ageing
19 (2022), 4, 1263-1276
| Chiara Heller, Stefanie Sperlich, Fabian Tetzlaff, Siegfried Geyer, Jelena Epping, Johannes Beller, Juliane Tetzlaff