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DIW Weekly Report 12 / 2021
Many people are suffering from the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. Refugees, however, belong to one of the underpriviliged groups in many areas of society. They are more likely than average to live in overcrowded living quarters such as community housing and are thus exposed to a higher risk of infection. At the same time, even before the pandemic, they were more likely than average to experience ...
2021| Theresa Entringer, Jannes Jacobsen, Hannes Kröger, Maria Metzing
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
This article quantifies differences in personality skills (Big Five Factor, locus of control, reciprocity, life goals and risk) and their assimilation rate between first-generation immigrants and native Germans, using the SOEP survey. The results reveal that the two groups differentiate in their personality traits but immigrants do not tend to assimilate natives during...
10.03.2021| Marli Guimarães Fernandes, Nova School of Business and Economics
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Refereed essays Web of Science
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 ...
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Advances in Life Course Research
47 (2021), 100392, 10 S.
| Ursina Kuhn, Markus M. Grabka, Christian Suter
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DIW Discussion Papers 1974 / 2021
From standard portfolio-choice theory it is well-understood that background risk, overwhelmingly due to wage risk, is one of the central determinants of individuals’ portfolio composition: higher background risk reduces risky investments. However, if background risk is negatively correlated with financial market risk, higher background risk implies more risky investment. We quantify the influence of ...
2021| Johannes König, Maximilian Longmuir
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Research Project
The Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin and the University of Bremen are working together to develop a household panel study on the topic of social cohesion. The survey is being conducted by the infas Institute for Applied Social Science under the name “Zusammenleben in Deutschland,” or “Living Together in Germany.”
The University of Bremen is taking part in the project as a participant in...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Substantial educational inequalities have been documented in Germany for decades. In this article, we examine whether educational inequalities among children have increased or remained the same since the school closures of spring 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our perspective is longitudinal: We compare the amount of time children in secondary schools spent on school-related activities at home ...
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Frontiers in Psychology
12 (2021), 705107, 10 S.
| Sabine Zinn, Michael Bayer
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Research Project
The Covid-19 pandemic poses numerous societal challenges. We will examine how it affects distinct social and at-risk groups in Germany, what it implies for societal inequalities, and what role welfare state measures play.
First, we will describe the situation of the population before and during the pandemic in the health and the socio-economic domain. In each domain, we will study a set of core...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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DIW Discussion Papers 1962 / 2021
We present evidence from a repeated survey on risky asset holdings carried out on a representative sample of the German population six times between April and June 2020. Given the size of the Covid-19 shock, we find little evidence of portfolio rebalancing in April 2020. In May, however, individual investors started buying heavily, fueling market recovery. The cross-section shows large differences ...
2021| Lukas Menkhoff, Carsten Schröder
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition approach has been widely used to attribute group-level differences in an outcome to differences in endowment, coefficients, and their interactions. The method has been implemented for Stata in the popular oaxaca command for cross-sectional analyses. In recent decades, however, research questions have been more often focused on the decomposition of group-based ...
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The Stata Journal
21 (2021), 2, S. 360-410
| Hannes Kröger, Jörg Hartmann
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic and the government-mandated measures to contain its spread affect the self-employed — particularly women — in Germany. For our analysis, we use representative, real-time survey data in which respondents were asked about their situation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings indicate that among the self-employed, who generally face a higher ...
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Journal of Population Economics
34 (2021), S. 1141–1187
| Daniel Graeber, Alexander S. Kritikos, Johannes Seebauer