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The keys to the house: How wealth transfers stratify homeownership opportunities

This study investigates how actual and anticipated intergenerational wealth transfers (i.e., inter-vivo gifts and inheritances) contribute to social stratification in the transition to homeownership. Utilizing discrete-time survival analysis on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (N=13,018), we find that individuals whose parents were manual workers or service workers are less likely to ...

Cross-national Differences in Socioeconomic Achievement Inequality in Early Primary School: The Role of Parental Education and Income in Six Countries

This paper presents comparative information on the strength of the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and literacy skills at ages 6–8, drawing on data from France, Germany, Japan, Rotterdam (Netherlands), the United Kingdom, and the United States. We investigate whether the strength of the association between SES and literacy skills in early-to-mid childhood depends on the operationalization ...

Quo vadis, Wochenberichtsplan?

Ökonomin über das Erben zwischen Ost und West: „Die Ungleichheit hält sich hartnäckig“ (Interview mit Charlotte Bartels)

Die Ökonomin Charlotte Bartels erforscht die Ungleichheit in Deutschland, die nicht abnimmt, sondern andauert. Und das nicht nur zwischen Ost und West.

Die Arbeitsmarktreformen der Agenda 2010 und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland (Dissertation)

Geldstapel bis nach Chicago

Private Haushalte in Deutschland verfügen gerade über so viel Geld wie noch nie. Allerdings ist dieses Vermögen sehr ungleich verteilt. Wissenswertes über den Reichtum und die Armut im Land

Reichtum unter der Lupe

Forscher versuchen, das Vermögen der Wohlhabenden zu ergründen

Subjektives Wohlbefinden und Sorgen (Kap. 11.1)

Einsamkeit (Kap. 7.5)

Studying the Family-Migration-Nexus: State of Research, Knowledge Gaps, and Empirical Perspectives

This introductory chapter begins with a brief outline of key aspects of the current state of research on the family-migration-nexus, subsequently identifying key knowledge gaps. From this, we develop some more general thoughts about the kind of data are needed to fill existing research gaps, and then use the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS) as an example to describe a data set ...