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Even though the COVID-19 pandemic had consequences for the whole society, like during most crises, some population groups tended to be disproportionally affected. We rely on the most recent data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees to explore the resilience or vulnerability of refugees in the face of the pandemic. As the 2020 wave of the survey was in the field when the second nationwide lockdown ...
In:
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
19 (2022), 12, 7409
| Laura Goßner, Yuliya Kosyakova, Marie-Christine Laible
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This article explores the relationship between foreign language skills and individuals’ labor income in Germany, focusing on the English language. Using the 2012 and 2016 sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel’s Innovation Sample (GSOEP-IS), we find that native speakers of German with English language skills earn a wage premium of 13 percent, on average. Incremental improvements in the level of ...
In:
Labour Economics
76 (2022), June 2022, 102150
| Sabrina Hahm, Michele Gazzola
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By the end of the Second World War, an estimated 20 percent of the West German housing stock had been destroyed. Building on a theoretical lifecycle model of wealth accumulation, this paper examines the extent to which regional differences in destruction can explain differences in wealth today” – at the beginning of the 21st century. As our empirical basis, we link a unique historical dataset on the ...
In:
Journal of Economic Growth
30 (2025), 161-235
| Christoph Halbmeier, Carsten Schröder
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In this study, we investigate the determinants of social integration of Syrian refugees and the impact of social integration on refugees’ decision to stay in Germany, using the 2016 IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Survey. Our econometric strategy is based on the estimation of a simultaneous equation model for social integration, economic integration, and the decision to stay, handling endogeneity issues through ...
In:
Journal of Population Economics
36 (2023), 581-607
| Cyrine Hannafi, Mohamed Ali Marouani
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Expanding on a new body of literature on cultural self-selection, the present study investigates how refugees who arrived in Germany since 2013 relate to the general population of their countries of origin in terms of liberal democratic values. The cultural self-selection literature suggests that more liberal individuals may be more likely to flee to Germany. To trace cultural self-selection amongst ...
In:
Journal of Refugee Studies
36 (2022), 1, 128-155
| Lukas M. Fuchs
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There is a vast literature on the health benefits associated with volunteering for volunteers. Such health advantages are likely to vary across groups of volunteers with different characteristics. The current paper aims to examine the health advantages of volunteering for European volunteers and explore heterogeneity in the association between volunteering and health. We carry out a mega-analysis on ...
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European Journal of Ageing
19 (2022), 4, 1189-1200
| Arjen de Wit, Heng Qu, René Bekkers
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Single mothers are a particularly disadvantaged group in terms of their mental health and life satisfaction. While it is plausible that re-partnering could compensate for these disadvantages by providing social, emotional, and financial resources, the evidence is inconclusive. Using annual panel data from Germany (1984-2020) and the United Kingdom (1991-2020), this study examines the life satisfaction ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2023,
(MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-001)
| Philipp Dierker, Mine Kühn, Mikko Myrskylä
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Using microdata from 17 OECD countries, this paper documents a negative cross-country correlation between gender gaps in market hours and wages. We find that the cross-country differences in market hours are mostly accounted for by female market hours and the size of the sector that produces close substitutes to home production. We quantify the role played by taxes and family care subsidies on the ...
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Economica
90 (2023), 358, 373-408
| Robert Duval-Hernández, Lei Fang, L. Rachel Ngai
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Comparisons are crucial in shaping evaluations of one’s own position. Following this notion, we investigated the role of historical, financial, partner, occupational, and regional pay referents in predicting the just gross hourly earnings in a representative sample of German workers. Looking at this broad range of pay referents, we find that higher reference earnings were generally associated with ...
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European Sociological Review
40 (2024), 1, 129–142
| Philipp Simon Eisnecker, Jule Adriaans
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Immunization by vaccination is one of the most important tools for fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet in many countries, immunization campaigns have been hampered by vaccine hesitancy within the population. Building on the idea that vaccination decisions are embedded in the broader societal context, we study the role of generalized trust—the belief that most people can generally be trusted—in vaccine ...
In:
PLOS ONE
17 (2022), 12, e0278854
| Philipp Simon Eisnecker, Martin Kroh, Simon Kühne