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Surveying emigrants worldwide–using Facebook and Instagram to recruit respondents in cross-national (e)migration research

Sampling remains a major challenge when researching minority populations, especially in cross-national settings. While various sampling methods are established in the field, most of them cannot easily be implemented globally. However, worldwide operating Social Networking Sites provide an opportunity for the recruitment of certain hard-to-reach populations in almost all countries. Targeting German ...

Spatial income inequality in Rajasthan using small area estimation model

India has emerged as the fastest-growing nation in recent years, and rising inequality may obstruct this path, leading to serious socio-economic challenges. This situation has raised the demand for micro-level data among policymakers to facilitate effective decentralised planning and reduce regional disparity. However, the survey data is not ideal for understanding disparities at the disaggregated ...

Perceived expectations for active aging: the role of motivational and personality factors

Perceived expectations for active aging (PEAA) reflect subjective exposure to social expectations about staying active and fit in old age, for example, by maintaining health and social engagement. We investigated whether motivational and personality factors were related to PEAA in the domains of physical health, mental health, and social engagement. We used a nationally representative sample of German ...

Response Bias in the Gender Gap in Non-Market Work

Despite increasing female labor force participation, gender differences in non-market work, such as housework and childcare, persist. By exploiting exogenous variation in the questionnaire of the German Socio-Economic Panel, I analyze how response behavior affects estimates of time use in a longitudinal setting. I find a causal impact of questionnaire design on the reported hours of non-market work ...

Manifestations of (Mis)Recognition Amongst Germany-based Refugee Women from Ukraine

This research focuses on 10 case studies drawn from a corpus of 50 interviews with displaced Ukrainian women based in Berlin and Frankfurt/Oder and considers the extent to which Ukrainian refugee women arriving in Germany over the last two years might have experienced misrecognition within their everyday experiences. Following Honneth’s (1996) understanding of recognition in terms of self-confidence, ...

35 Jahre Wiedervereinigung: Was wurde in Ostdeutschland erreicht und wo liegen die größten ökonomischen Probleme?

In den vergangenen 35 Jahren wurde beim Aufbau der Wirtschaft in den östlichen Bundesländern viel erreicht. Jedoch bestehen weiterhin hartnäckige Unterschiede in der wirtschaftlichen Leistungsfähigkeit und in den zugrundeliegenden wirtschaftlichen Strukturen im Vergleich zu Westdeutschland. Das Bruttoinlandsprodukt der fünf ostdeutschen Flächenländer liegt bei 72 Prozent des westdeutschen Niveaus. ...

Personality Traits and the Likelihood of Self-Employment: A Journey into the Crafts’ Way of Doing Business

Given the renewed scholarly interest in the crafts, this paper explores the nuances of crafts entrepreneurship through a personality-based approach. Our findings validate prior research on the general influence of broad and narrow personality traits on self-employment. However, our analysis also suggests that certain effects differ between crafts and non-crafts, most notably the role of the Big Five ...

Non-Formal Education and Life Satisfaction

Terrorism and Voting: The Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Germany

Can right-wing terrorism increase support for far-right populist parties, and if so, why? Exploiting quasi-random variation between successful and failed attacks across German municipalities, we find that successful attacks lead to significant increases in the vote share for the right-wing, populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party. Our results are predominantly observable in state (Bundesland) ...

Short-time Work and Unemployment: Long-term Effects on Workers’ Labor-market Outcomes, Time Use and Life Satisfaction

Many countries use job-retention schemes, such as short-time work (STW), to stabilize the labor market during economic downturns. While these schemes might prevent unemployment (UE) and its adverse effects on workers, STW could also deter workers from moving to more productive firms, thereby negatively affecting their labor market outcomes in the long run. We analyze the long-term effects of STW and ...