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In 2015–16, Germany experienced a rapid and controversial increase in refugees that varied substantially across German districts. This increase provides unique leverage for analyzing how fractionalization, threat, and contact shape the consequences of immigration and ethnolinguistic heterogeneity. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel and local district-level administrative data on refugee shares, ...
In:
American Journal of Sociology
130 (2024), 3, 725-763
| Marco Giesselmann, David Brady, Tabea Naujoks
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To obtain a more complete understanding of the persisting gender earnings gap in Germany, this paper investigates both the cross-sectional and lifetime dimension of gender inequalities. Based on a dynamic microsimulation model, we analyse how gender differences accumulate over work lives to examine the lifetime dimension of the gender gap. We estimate an average gender gap in lifetime earnings of 51.5 ...
In:
LABOUR
38 (2024), 425-474
| Rick Glaubitz, Astrid Harnack-Eber, Miriam Wetter
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The transition to parenthood represents a turning point shaping couples’ arrangements for paid work and housework. Previous studies often examined these changes in isolation, rather than as interrelated trajectories reflecting diverse models of family division of labor. Drawing on data from different-sex couples from the 1984–2019 Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the 1984–2020 German Socio-Economic ...
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Advances in Life Course Research
60 (2024), 100611
| Wen Fan
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This paper examines the effects of the 2013 flood disaster in East Germany on subjective wellbeing. Merging geo-spatial flood data with longitudinal data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we use a panel event study design for the analysis. Our results show that those affected by the flood report a significant life satisfaction drop of 0.17 points on an 11-point scale, which is equivalent to a 2.5% ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2025,
(SOEPpapers 1224)
| Sachintha Fernando, Katharina Kolb, Christoph Wunder
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Previous research finds that recent immigrants are healthier than the native-born, while more established immigrants exhibit worse health, suggesting a process of unhealthy assimilation. However, previous literature is mostly based on cross-sectional data or on longitudinal analyses similarly failing to disentangle individual-level variation from between-individual confounding. Moreover, previous longitudinal ...
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Social Science & Medicine
351 (2024), June 2024, 116976
| Alessandro Ferrara, Carla Grindel, Claudia Brunori
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Personal transfers as part of remittances are becoming increasingly relevant due to growing migration movements influenced by rising income inequalities, political conflicts and increasing environmental challenges. Their impact on countries´economies call for reliable estimations to be used in policy decision making and economic analysis. After a revision of recent demographic changes in Germany, evidence ...
In:
Bank for International Settlements ,
External statistics in a fragmented and uncertain world
Bank for International Settlements
| Joerg Feuerhake, Maria Cobián
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Prior research has identified that school absences harm children's academic achievement. However, this literature is focused on brief periods or single school years and does not consistently account for the dynamic nature of absences across multiple school years. This study examined dynamic trajectories of children's authorised and unauthorised absences throughout their compulsory school ...
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PLOS ONE
19 (2024), 8, e0306716
| Jascha Dräger, Markus Klein, Edward M. Sosu
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This study aims to expand knowledge on the nexus between religious attitudes and entrepreneurship performance. Using an international sample of 1,162 European youth entrepreneurs collected in 2016 in eleven countries, we test the increasing effect of spiritual capital on business performance and its heterogeneity across religions. The results from the multivariate regression analyses show only modest ...
In:
Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship
36 (2024), 6, 879-897
| Ondřej Dvouletý
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Analyses of income inequality across households crucially depend on equivalence scales. They define income increments necessary to keep a household’s living standard constant as it is joined by additional adults or children. Such scales have frequently been estimated using income satisfaction data, yet under the assumption that household income, size and structure are exogenous. The present paper is ...
2024,
| Susanne Elisabeth Elsas, Melanie Borah
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Psychosocial stress is considered a risk factor for physical and mental ill-health. Evidence on socioeconomic inequalities with regard to the psychosocial consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany is still limited. We aimed to investigate how pandemic-induced psychosocial stress (PIPS) in different life domains differed between socioeconomic groups.
In:
BMC Public Health
24 (2024), 1, 1421
| Florian Beese, Benjamin Wachtler, Markus M. Grabka, Miriam Blume, Christina Kersjes, Robert Gutu, Elvira Mauz, Jens Hoebel