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Maternal employment dynamics and childhood overweight: Evidence from Germany

Übergewicht im Kindesalter ist ein zentraler Indikator für das Wohlbefinden von Kindern, der häufig mit der Beschäftigung von Müttern in Verbindung gebracht wurde, da diese sich potentiell auf die Ernährung und die körperliche Aktivität von Kindern auswirkt. Basierend auf Daten des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels zu Kindern, die zwischen 2002 und 2011 geboren wurden, untersucht diese Studie, wie sich die ...

Early retirement as a privilege for the rich? A comparative analysis of Germany and Switzerland

This contribution analyses early retirement in Germany and Switzerland with a focus on financial resources. Using data from CH-SILC linked to administrative records and the German SOEP, we distinguish three different financial resources: namely, pre-retirement labour income, net worth and pension entitlements. High labour income reduces the probability for early retirement. In contrast, high pension ...

Schlafmangel durch Kinder: So viel Schlaf fehlt Eltern nach der Geburt

Mit einem Kind verändert sich das ganze Leben. Doch den meisten Eltern ist vorher gar nicht klar, wie viel Schlaf sie durch den quirligen Nachwuchs tatsächlich einbüßen. Britische Wissenschaftler haben die Auswirkungen der Geburt auf die Schlafgewohnheiten von Eltern untersucht. Das Ergebnis: Die Normalität stellt sich später wieder ein als gedacht.

The Challenged Sense of Belonging Scale (CSBS): a validation study in English, Arabic, and Farsi/Dari among refugees and asylum seekers in Germany

This study introduces and investigates the validity of a brief scale measuring a challenged sense of belonging. The sense of belonging as well as challenges to this sense are important, albeit neglected aspects of social integration and of significance to migration and refugee studies as well as to virtually all other social science contexts. Assessing a challenged or eroded sense of belonging provides ...

Gendered Pathways to Integration: Why Immigrants’ Naming Practices Differ by the Child’s Gender

Wir analysieren geschlechtsspezifische Unterschiede in der symbolischen Grenzarbeit von Migrantinnen und Migranten am Beispiel der Vornamenvergabe für Töchter und Söhne. Unser Beitrag stützt sich auf den bereits etablierten Befund, dass Migrantinnen und Migranten für weibliche Nachkommen eher einen im Aufnahmeland gebräuchlichen Namen wählen (boundary crossing) als für männliche. Wir unterschieden ...

Zur Wirkung der Grundrente und der Mütterrente auf die Altersarmut

Does Regime Change Affect Intergenerational Mobility? Evidence from German Reunification

This study uses the natural experiment of German reunification and a difference-in-differences approach to test whether the political and economic transition in East Germany in 1990 affected intergenerational occupational and educational mobility. Results obtained using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study show that German reunification did neither strongly affect occupational nor educational ...

Positive learning or deviant interviewing? Mechanisms of experience on interviewer behavior

Interviewer (mis)behavior has been shown to change with interviewers’ professional experience (general experience) and experience gained during the field period (survey experience). We extend this study by using both types of experiences to analyze interviewer effects on a core quality indicator: interview duration. To understand whether the effect of interviewer experience on duration is driven by ...

Endogenous Selection Bias and Cumulative Inequality over the Life Course: Evidence from Educational Inequality in Subjective Well-Being

According to theories of cumulative (dis-)advantage, inequality increases over the life course. Labour market research has seized this argument to explain the increasing economic inequality as people age. However, evidence for cumulative (dis-)advantage in subjective well-being remains ambiguous, and a prominent study from the United States has reported contradictory results. Here, we reconcile research ...

Agents of Socialization and Female Migrants’ Employment: The Influence of Mothers and the Country Context

Women around the world are on the move but find it difficult to secure jobs. Employment is vital for migrant integration as it affords financial security, autonomy in the family and helps to establish social contacts. Besides human capital, previous research has looked into ethnic origin and specific source country aspects as drivers of female migrant employment. By contrast, ideas of adolescence as ...