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Aim: Maintaining transnational ties may be an indication of poor integration into the host society (according to classical ‘assimilation theory’) or may convey additional capital resources to immigrants (the ‘transmigrant’ view of migration). Consequences for health would be negative in the first and positive in the second scenario. We tested the hypotheses that (1) maintaining transnational ties may ...
In:
Journal of Public Health
27 (2019), 4, 507-517
| Oliver Razum, Jürgen Breckenkamp, Margit Fauser
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As population aging will likely lead to an increasing number of people in need of care, the demand for informal care is expected to rise. In this context, it is often discussed whether financial incentives can motivate more individuals to assume caregiving responsibilities. We analyze the potential effect of financial incentives on the provision of informal care by estimating a structural model with ...
In:
Health Economics
34 (2025), 3, 442–455
| Mara Rebaudo, Lena Calahorrano, Kathrin Hausmann
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We use quarterly panel data from the COME-HERE survey covering five European countries to analyse three facets of the experience of loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, in terms of prevalence, loneliness peaked in April 2020, followed by a U-shape pattern in the rest of 2020, and then remained relatively stable throughout 2021 and 2022. We then establish the individual determinants of loneliness ...
In:
Economics & Human Biology
55 (2024), 101427
| Alessio Rebechi, Anthony Lepinteur, Andrew E. Clark, Nicholas Rohde, Claus Vögele, Conchita D’Ambrosio
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Inspired by the literature on social polarisation and residential segregation we draw on a probabilistic approach to pursue the evolution of household location preferences in West Germany. Using microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the period 1984-2020 we demonstrate that structural economic change was accompanied by an increasing preference for residence in compact housing close ...
Essen:
RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung,
2024,
(Ruhr Economic Papers #1126)
| Uwe Neumann, Christoph M. Schmidt
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Traditional urban policy focuses mainly on redevelopment measures. Germany’s Social City programme incorporates urban regeneration with support to local communities in deprived neighbourhoods. We use microdata on household characteristics from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and microdata on housing prices from the RWI GEO-RED to assess the policy effects on household income and housing markets. ...
Essen:
RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung,
2024,
(Ruhr Economic Papers #1129)
| Uwe Neumann, Serife Yasar
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Between 1960 and 1979, 93 new universities opened in Germany. Using this large tertiary education expansion, I estimate the effect of a university opening on the probability of obtaining a university degree in the local population. I exploit the geographical variation in local university access in a difference-in-differences approach by comparing age cohorts in counties that were and were not affected ...
Nürnberg:
Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (BGPE),
2012,
(BGPE Discussion Paper No. 124)
| Benedikt Siegler
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Abstract This paper explores the role of family trajectories during childhood in explaining inequalities by maternal education in children's math and reading skills using harmonized, longitudinal, and nationally representative surveys, which follow children over the course of primary and lower secondary school in four high-income countries (England, France, Germany, and the United States). As ...
In:
Population and Development Review
50 (2024), 2, 461-512
| Anne Solaz, Lidia Panico, Alexandra Sheridan, Thorsten Schneider, Jascha Dräger, Jane Waldfogel, Sarah Jiyoon Kwon, Elizabeth Washbrook, Valentina Perinetti Casoni
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Germany's social security system and its income taxation suffers from intransparent and inefficient interdependencies between the two systems. Additionally, work incentives of the current unemployment benefits are reduced by high implicit marginal tax rates. Due to these inconsistencies there is an ongoing debate in politics and economics to replace the current regulations with an unconditional ...
Berlin:
2012,
| Maximilian Sommer
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Background: Extending the number of active working years is an important goal both for maintaining individual quality of life and safeguarding social security systems. Against this background, we examined the development of healthy and unhealthy working life expectancy (HWLE/UHWLE) in the general population and for different educational groups. Methods: The study is based on data from the German Socio-Economic ...
In:
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
77 (2023), 7, 430-439
| Stefanie Sperlich, Johannes Beller, Jelena Epping, Siegfried Geyer, Juliane Tetzlaff
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Objectives: This study analyzes longitudinal trends in self-rated health (SRH) by taking age- and gender-specific differences into account. Methods: Data of 29,251 women and 26,967 men were obtained from the German Socio-Economic Panel between 1995 and 2014. Generalized Estimation Equation analysis for logistic regression was used to estimate changes in odds of (very) good SRH over time. Development ...
In:
International Journal of Public Health
64 (2019), 6, 921-933
| Stefanie Sperlich, Juliane Tetzlaff, Siegfried Geyer