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Gesundheitliche Ungleichheit (Kap. 9.2)

Desperate Housewives and Happy Working Mothers: Are Parent-Couples with Equal Income More Satisfied throughout Parenthood? A Dyadic Longitudinal Study

Are parent-couples with equal income more satisfied as their children grow up, than those who prioritize the father’s career (specialize)? For the first time, 384 German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study couples were categorized into life-course coupled earnings types, by tracing how earnings were divided within couples between the ages of 1 to 15 of their youngest child. Multivariate, multilevel analysis ...

Auswirkungen des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns: Schriftlichen Anhörung der Mindestlohnkommission

Studie: Homosexuelle Menschen erkranken häufiger an Depressionen

Diskriminierung macht krank. Eine Studie des DIW zeigt, inwiefern Schwule, Lesben sowie trans- und bisexuelle Menschen betroffen sind.

Subjektives Wohlbefinden und Sorgen (Kap. 12.1)

‘Grey zones’ within dependent employment: formal and informal forms of on-call work in Germany

This article aims to take stock of the various manifestations of on-call work in Germany. It is shown that formal on-call work is, by international standards, relatively strictly regulated in Germany, not least as the result of a 2019 reform of the law. Similar to other countries, however, other informal variants are used that lie outside the scope of the re-regulation or ‘normalisation’ of formal ...

How Threatening Are Transformations of Happiness Scales to Subjective Wellbeing Research?

Two recent papers argue that many results based on ordinal reports of happiness can be reversed with suitable monotonic increasing transformations of the associated happiness scale (Bond and Lang 2019; Schröder and Yitzhaki 2017). If true, empirical research utilizing such reports is in trouble. Against this background, we make four main contributions. First, we show that reversals are fundamentally ...

Unspezifische Vorsorge - reicht es für die Pflege?: Untersuchung anhand der Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels

Angesichts eines weiter zunehmenden Pflegebedarfs in Deutschland rückt auch die Frage der Pflegefinanzierung immer stärker in den Fokus der öffentlichen Debatte. Durch die Ausgestaltung der Pflegeversicherung als Teilleistungsversicherung werden nicht alle Pflegekosten übernommen und die Pflegebedürftigen müssen entsprechende Eigenanteile zusätzlich leisten. Gerade für die Pflege in Pflegeheimen fallen ...

Valuing energy infrastructure externalities using wellbeing and hedonic price data: the case of wind turbines (Ch. 16)

Einkommensentwicklung – Verteilung, Angleichung, Armut und Dynamik (Kap. 6.3)