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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 ...
In:
Advances in Life Course Research
47 (2021), March 2021, 100392
| Ursina Kuhn, Markus M. Grabka, Christian Suter
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This study introduces and investigates the validity of a brief scale measuring a challenged sense of belonging. The sense of belonging as well as challenges to this sense are important, albeit neglected aspects of social integration and of significance to migration and refugee studies as well as to virtually all other social science contexts. Assessing a challenged or eroded sense of belonging provides ...
In:
Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences
3 (2021), 1, 3
| Lukas M. Fuchs, Jannes Jacobsen, Lena Walther, Eric Hahn, Thi Minh Tam Ta, Malek Bajbouj, Christian von Scheve
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Wir analysieren geschlechtsspezifische Unterschiede in der symbolischen Grenzarbeit von Migrantinnen und Migranten am Beispiel der Vornamenvergabe für Töchter und Söhne. Unser Beitrag stützt sich auf den bereits etablierten Befund, dass Migrantinnen und Migranten für weibliche Nachkommen eher einen im Aufnahmeland gebräuchlichen Namen wählen (boundary crossing) als für männliche. Wir unterschieden ...
In:
Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (KZfSS)
72 (2020), 4, 597-625
| Jürgen Gerhards, Julia Tuppat
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This study uses the natural experiment of German reunification and a difference-in-differences approach to test whether the political and economic transition in East Germany in 1990 affected intergenerational occupational and educational mobility. Results obtained using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study show that German reunification did neither strongly affect occupational nor educational ...
In:
European Sociological Review
37 (2021), 3, 465-481
| Michael Grätz
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The purpose of this study was to estimate the health-related quality of life (HrQoL) of asylum seekers and refugees that arrived during the European migrant and refugee crisis in Germany between 2014 and 2017. The analysis was based on the 2016 and 2017 refugee samples of the German Socio-Economic Panel (n = 6821). HrQoL was measured using a modified version of the SF-12v2 questionnaire and presented ...
In:
Applied Research in Quality of Life
17 (2022), 1, 109-127
| Thomas Grochtdreis, Hans-Helmut König, Steffi G. Riedel-Heller, Judith Dams
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Previous work has documented that speaking one’s native language with an accent distinct from the mainstream is associated with lower wages. In this study, we seek to estimate the causal effect of speaking with a distinctive regional accent, disentangling the effect of the accent from that of omitted variables. We collected data on workers’ speech in Germany, a country with wide variation in regional ...
Cambridge, MA:
National Bureau of Economic Research,
2020,
(NBER Working Paper 26719)
| Jeffrey Grogger, Andreas Steinmayr, Joachim Winter
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Our aim was to estimate the prevalence and correlates of probable depression and anxiety in the general adult population in Germany. Repeated cross-sectional data (i.e., cross-sectional data observed at different time points: year 2012 and year 2014) were derived from the innovation sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel, a population-based study of German households. The validated Patient Health ...
In:
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
17 (2020), 21, 7865
| André Hajek, Hans-Helmut König
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Background and Aims: Cancer treatments often require intensive use of healthcare services and limit patients’ ability to work, potentially causing them to become financially vulnerable. The present study is the first attempt to measure, on the German national level, the magnitude of absolute income loss after a cancer diagnosis. Methods: This study analyzes data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) ...
In:
Cancer Medicine
10 (2021), 11, 3726-3740
| Diego Hernandez, Michael Schlander
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The paper analyses changes in the generosity of public transfers to the unemployed and their effectiveness for the alleviation of poverty risks in Germany and Great Britain between the 1990s and the 2000s. In the light of changing poverty risks among the unemployed, the contribution of policy changes is assessed using individual-level data on household incomes. The results indicate that the introduction ...
In:
Acta Sociologica
64 (2021), 4, 420-436
| Jan Brülle
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In 2015–2016 Germany experienced a wave of predominantly low-skilled refugee immigration. We evaluate its macroeconomic and distributional effects using a quantitative overlapping generations model calibrated using German micro data to replicate education and productivity differentials between foreign born and native workers. Workers are modelled as imperfect substitutes in aggregate production leading ...
In:
Journal of Monetary Economics
113 (2020), 28-55
| Christopher Busch, Dirk Krueger, Alexander Ludwig, Irina Popova, Zainab Iftikhar