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Background COVID-19 measures in Germany varied during the pandemic, and it seems natural that in addition to factors such as incidence, health system capacity, etc., these interventions and their social and economic consequences had an impact on the evolution of the population’s well-being. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there has been a suspicion that the health burden would fall mainly on population ...
In:
Frontiers in Public Health
13 (2025), 1523691
| Emily Finne, Anna Christina Nowak, Oliver Razum
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Unemployment consistently lowers life satisfaction on average, yet the individual impact of job loss varies significantly. The underlying factors driving this heterogeneity remain a subject of ongoing research. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we demonstrate a compelling link between unemployment and loneliness, suggesting that a substantial portion of unemployment’s detrimental impact ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
26 (2025), 6, 102
| Tim Friehe, Christian Pfeifer
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Introduction Primary healthcare (PHC) is key to addressing the health and social needs of refugees. Nurses are often part of multidisciplinary teams in PHC, but little is known about their roles and responsibilities in refugee healthcare. We aimed to synthesise the existing knowledge about models of care (Mo C) for refugees in primary care settings which involve nursing professionals.Methods Systematic ...
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BMJ Global Health
10 (2025), 3, e018105
| Andreas W. Gold, Clara Perplies, Louise Biddle, Kayvan Bozorgmehr
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This paper analyzes the role of health for refugees' integration into host societies' labor markets. We exploit the quasi-random dispersal policies of refugees across regions in Germany to analyze the causal effect of health on employment. Based on regional and temporal heterogeneity in a policy adoption that provided earlier access to health care services through electronic health cards ...
Nürnberg:
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB),
2025,
(IAB-Discussion Paper No. 5/2025)
| Laura Goßner, Philipp Jaschke, Yuliya Kosyakova
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Equality of opportunity is a principle of social justice, although there are different conceptions of it. We distinguish between liberal and radical (in)equality of opportunity. Both conceptions consider unfair inequalities in life outcomes that result from ascribed characteristics such as social origin, migration background, and sex. However, they differ in that liberal inequality of opportunity considers ...
In:
PNAS Nexus
4 (2025), 5,
| Michael Grätz, Sonia Petrini
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Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus, we study their labour market integration over the last 50 years and highlight differences to the US case. Although the employment gaps between immigrant and native men decline after arrival, they remain large for most cohorts; the average gap after one decade is 10 percentage points. ...
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Economic Policy
40 (2024), 122, 481–549
| Paul Berbée, Jan Stuhler
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A positive relationship between pro-environmental behavior and subjective well-being has been used to argue for a “double dividend”, i.e. the narrative that pro-environmental behavior is beneficial for both environment and individual, when measured in the metric of subjective well-being. Our paper argues that the (causal) evidence base for such a narrative is far too weak. We suggest methodological ...
In:
Ecological Economics
237 (2025), 108684
| Martin Binder, Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg, Jan Nickel
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Life satisfaction should be analysed focussing on the institutionalized occupational and private life, on preferences, and on the life course and controlling for life success. To do so, four hypotheses are tested. (1) Private life preference affects private life satisfaction positively, and occupational life satisfaction negatively. (2) Private life preference is affected by private life satisfaction ...
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Applied Research in Quality of Life
20 (2025), 3, 1139–1162
| Klaus Birkelbach, Heiner Meulemann, Christian Sondergeld, Veronika Witt
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A large body of research shows that police officers hold more conservative political orientations than the general population, both across countries and over time. Studies seeking to explain this phenomenon report inconclusive findings. This paper studies two possible explanations: self-selection of politically conservative individuals into the police force (selection hypothesis) and growing conservatism ...
In:
Political Research Exchange
8 (2026), 1,
| Felix Bitterer, Simon Kühne
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We investigate the role of cultural norms in shaping women's labor supply decisions after childbirth. Specifically, we are interested in the interplay between childhood socialization and adulthood environment. To that end, we leverage the setting of the German reunification when East Germany's gender-egalitarian culture induced by socialism and West Germany's more traditional culture ...
In:
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
17 (2025), 2, 41–74
| Barbara Boelmann, Anna Raute, Uta Schönberg