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Development Throughout the Adult Life Span: Stability and Change in Personality Traits and Social Participation

Kinder wachsen und verändern sich ganz offensichtlich im Laufe der Zeit, aber nicht nur sie. Menschen verändern sich über ihre gesamte Lebensspanne. Empirisch belegt ist, dass sich auch die Persönlichkeit von Erwachsenen (d.h.: Offenheit für Erfahrungen, Gewissenhaftigkeit, Extraversion, Verträglichkeit, Neurotizismus) und ihr soziales Leben (z.B.: Größe des sozialen Netzwerks) bis ins hohe Alter verändern. ...

The Dynamics of Attitudes toward Immigrants: Cohort Analyses for Western EU Member States

Public opinion climates on immigrants are subject to certain dynamics. This study examines two mechanisms for such dynamics in Western EU member states for the 2002–2018 period. First, the impact of cohort replacement and, second, the impact of periodic threat perceptions, namely, changing macroeconomic conditions and shifts in immigration rates. To date, empirical research on anti-immigrant sentiments ...

Does education have an impact on patience and risk willingness?

We analyse the causal effect of education on patience (also known as time preference) and risk willingness using the German compulsory schooling reform, which took effect in West Germany after World War II. This reform increased compulsory schooling from 8 years to 9 years. We use two-stage least squares to obtain causal effects. In line with the literature, the results show a positive effect of education ...

Patterns and Drivers of Over-time Change in the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality in Germany and the UK

This doctoral thesis contributes to research on over-time trends in the intergenerational transmission of inequality in two major European societies. Paper 1 entitled ‘Intergenerational Class Mobility of Labour Market Entrants in Germany and the UK since the 1950s’ shows that absolute mobility between parents’ social class and their children’s first social class has continuously changed. Still, increases ...

SOEP-Core – 2021: Sampling, Nonresponse, and Weighting in Wave 2 of Living in Germany – Nationwide Corona-Monitoring (RKI-SOEP2)

Location, Location, Location: The Role of Objective Neighborhood Characteristics for Perceptions of Control

Introduction: Control beliefs can protect against age-related declines in functioning. It is unclear whether neighborhood characteristics shape how much control people perceive over their life. This article studies associations of neighborhood characteristics with control beliefs of residents of a diverse metropolitan area (Berlin, Germany). Methods: We combine self-report data about perceptions of ...

Home care allowance and labor market participation of immigrant and native-born mothers

Most countries still have a significant gender gap in labor force participation, and this gap is especially large for immigrants. Despite this gap, Germany introduced various forms of home care allowances in the last decade. Parallel to the extension of early child care and the inclusion of a legal claim for it, from 2013 to 2015, a nationwide home care allowance existed for parents who did not use ...

Impact of migration policies on socio-cultural participation and well-being: evidence from the Migration Act of 2000 in Germany

Purpose: Countries have implemented various migration policies targeting the migrants' economic and political integration and social inclusion. However, little is known about the impact of migration policies on migrants' participation in socio-cultural activities and their link with well-being. The first aim of this study is to explore the effect of the Migration Act of 2000 in Germany on ...

Private spanner in public works? The corrosive effects of private insurance on public life

Contemporary societies are not only “risk societies”, but also insurance societies. While the shift of systemic risks from the community to the individual is a distinctive trait of modernity, research on the consequences of this process has focused almost exclusively on welfare state responses aimed at re-collectivizing societal risks. Individual-level reactions associated with the need for a private ...