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Germany has emerged over centuries as a central European country marked by political shifts that have resulted in deep regional fragmentation. The political burdens of two world wars led, in the late 1940s, to a separation of the country into the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), a separation that ended with German (re)unification in 1990. ...
In:
Graciela H. Tonon ,
Urban Inequalities: A Multidimensional and International Perspective
Cham: Springer International Publishing
91-136
| Peter Krause
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Objective: This chapter introduces the reader to the Special Issue Female Employment and Migration in European Countries. Background: While there is a large body of research on the labour market performance of male migrants, women’s employment behaviour after migration has only recently moved into the focus of attention. Method: This Special Issue draws on various research methods and data sources, ...
In:
Journal of Family Research
33 (2021), 2, 230-251
| Michaela Kreyenfeld, Claudia Diehl, Martin Kroh, Johannes Giesecke
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The relationship between urbanization, the brain, and human mental health is subject to intensive debate in the current scientific literature. Particularly, since mood and anxiety disorders as well as schizophrenia are known to be more frequent in urban compared to rural regions. Here, we investigated the association between cerebral signatures, mental health and land use indicators (Urban Fabric and ...
In:
Landscape and Urban Planning
214 (2021), 8
| Simone Kühn, Sandra Düzel, Anna Mascherek, Peter Eibich, Christian Krekel, Jens Kolbe, Jan Goebel, Jürgen Gallinat, Gert G. Wagner, Ulman Lindenberger
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This study provides the first population-representative quasi-experimental estimates on the impact of housing upgrades on occupant health. We analyze the exceptional period of renovations in East Germany following the German reunification during the 1990s. Triggered by one of the largest governmental loan programs in history, 3.6 million dwellings were renovated, focussing on upgrades to the building ...
In:
Journal of Health Economics
98 (2024), 102936
| Steffen Künn, Juan Palacios
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In many countries, temporary work is negatively associated with fertility. Yet, the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain poorly understood. This study investigates a range of mediating pathways (subjective and objective financial situation, short tenure, and employment uncertainty) through which temporary work influences first births in two contrasting contexts: Australia and Germany. Event ...
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research,
2024,
(Working Paper No. 05/24)
| Inga Laß, Mooi-Reci, Irma, Bujard Martin, Mark Wooden
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Evidence on how proximity to ethnic outgroups shapes attitudes toward immigration remains inconclusive. We suggest this may be driven, in part, by the fact that studies rarely account for the role of residential segregation. We argue that how the minority-share in an environment affects majority-group attitudes will depend on how segregated groups are from one another. To explore this, we undertake ...
In:
European Sociological Review
41 (2025), 4, 553–574
| James Laurence, Jan Goebel
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Recent research in economics and sociology demonstrates the existence of significant occupational segregation by sexual orientation and gender identity and differences in a range of labor market outcomes, such as hiring chances, earnings, and leadership positions. In this paper, we examine one possible cause of these differences that is associated with the disadvantaged position of sexual and gender ...
In:
PLOS ONE
19 (2024), 6, e0296419
| Zaza Zindel, Lisa de Vries
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Achieving low unemployment in an environment of weak growth is a major policy challenge; a more egalitarian distribution of hours worked could be the key to solving it. Whether work-sharing actually increases employment, however, has been debated controversially. In this article we present stylized facts on the distribution of hours worked and discuss the role of work-sharing for a sustainable economy. ...
In:
Ecological Economics
121 (2016), 246-253
| Klara Zwickl, Franziska Disslbacher, Sigrid Stagl
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Investing in entrepreneurship may be costly, and therefore risky, and entrepreneurship is also an economic endeavor that is highly dependent on entrepreneurial ability and risk appetite. In this study, data from 669 famers in southwest China were used as the sample, and we used three different methods to measure farmers’ risk aversion level, including DOSPRET (Domain-Specific Risk-Taking), SOEP (Simple ...
In:
Agriculture
14 (2024), 2, 209
| Tong Wang, Jiaxuan Liu, Hongyu Zhu, Yuansheng Jiang
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Hypothetical bias is the discrepancy between stated preferences and actual choices. As such, it is one of the key issues regarding the use of hypothetical survey methods and therefore highly relevant for economists in understanding human behavior and refining policy interventions. Hypothetical survey methods are often used to inform our view on decision making in health and financial settings. However, ...
Essen:
RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung,
2024,
(Ruhr Economic Papers, No. 1091)
| Anna Werbeck