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Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality

We document the degree of educational assortative mating, how it evolves over time, and the extent to which it differs between countries. Our analysis focuses on the United States but also uses data from Denmark, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Norway. We find evidence of positive assortative mating at all levels of education in each country. However, the time trends vary by the level of education: ...

Assessing Intergenerational Earnings Persistence Among German Workers

'Die Vitalität und Stabilität der Demokratie - auch der Wirtschaft - hängen letztlich eminent von der Durchlässigkeit der Gesellschaft ab.' (Horst Köhler, Bundespräsident, 29. 12. 2007)In dieser Studie wird die Frage der Durchlässigkeit der Gesellschaft, die nach Ansicht des Bundespräsidenten (siehe Eingangszitat) eine wichtige Grundlage der Vitalität und Stabilität der Demokratie ist, empirisch ...

Integrating Refugees: Insights from the Past: Editorial

Half of the refugees in Germany found their first job through social contacts

In Germany, the majority of people tend to find work through friends, acquaintances, and relatives when they first enter the labor market or switch jobs. The same applies to immigrants and their offspring. Integrating refugees into the labor market is considered crucial to their overall integration into society, yet little is known about how they land their first jobs. The present paper attempts to ...

Non-migrants' interethnic relationships with migrants: the role of the residential area, the workplace, and attitudes toward migrants from a longitudinal perspective

This paper studies the determinants of interethnic relationships between non-migrants and migrants in Germany. A large body of literature documents that such relationships generate positive outcomes for individual migrants as well as non-migrants and the social cohesion of host-societies at large. Previous research tends to focus on the migrant side, thereby neglecting the factors enabling non-migrants? ...

The Informed Consent to Record Linkage in Panel Studies: Optimal Starting Wave, Consent Refusals, and Subsequent Panel Attrition

Social scientists increasingly link survey data with administrative records. However, data protection legislation often requires respondents’ informed consent prior to record linkage. This has confronted research with nontrivial refusal rates in combination with selectivity of the consent decision. In longitudinal surveys, linkage requests may also increase attrition rates in subsequent waves, as many ...

Wage Dips and Drops around First Birth

Would You Marry Me? The Effects of Marriage on German Couples' Allocation of Time

Providing Data on the European Level

This paper reviews the potential demand for and the provision of European data for social scientific research. The concept of data provision is defined broadly, covering the ease with which specific types of data can be discovered, interpreted, readily understood and accessed by researchers. The paper is structured as follows. First, it addresses the issue of why researchers need European (as opposed ...

Health and Lifestyle in Rural Northeast Germany

Secular trends in health-related behavior, the frequency of illness, and life satisfaction in rural areas are inadequately documented. Such information is essential for the planning of health-care policy. In 1973 and 1994, surveys were performed on the health and lifestyle of all adult inhabitants of 14 selected rural communities in the northern part of the former East Germany. The inhabitants were ...