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The mental health and well-being of refugees are both prerequisites for and indicators of social integration. Using data from the first wave of a representative prospective panel of refugees living in Germany, we investigated how different living conditions, especially those subject to integration policies, are associated with experienced distress and life satisfaction in newly-arrived adult refugees. ...
SOEP Research: Subjective Well-Being, Personality, Health
Entrepreneurs as well as innovative activities by young companies play an increasingly important role in innovation-driven economies, both for economic growth and for the creation of new jobs. They are therefore important actors in economic change. At the same time, the number of start-ups has been falling steadily for some time. Against this background, the Entrepreneurship research group...
The Forecasting and Economic Policy Team analyses and forecasts economic trends in Germany and its most important sales markets. They publish the monthly DIW Economic Barometer, the quarterly DIW Economic Outlook, and participate in the Joint Economic Forecast, the spring and fall reports of the leading economic research institutes. The Team analyses the consequences of economic policy...
The Gender Economics research group at DIW Berlin analyzes gender gaps on the labor market, in particular the gender pay gap and the underrepresentation of women in top-leadership positions in the corporate sector. Moreover, the group works on several research projects on the evaluation of social policy, family policy and tax policy with respect to its implications on women’s employment prospects...
We analyze whether mothers’ parental leave decisions depend on their coworkers’ decisions. The identification of peer effects bears various challenges due to correlated characteristics within social groups. We therefore exploit quasi-random variation in the costs of parental leave induced by a policy reform in Germany. The reform encourages mothers to remain at home during the first year following ...
This empirical investigation into life satisfaction, using nationally representative German panel data, finds a substantial association with an individual’s thoughts about the future, whether they are optimistic or pessimistic about it. Furthermore, including individuals’ optimism and pessimism about the future substantially increases the explanatory power of standard life satisfaction models. The ...
