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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 ...
In:
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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This chapter provides the first extensive overview of mental health in Germany since reunification. Relying on data from the Socio-Economic Panel, an annual, representative panel study running since 1984 (in East Germany since 1990), this chapter reports the prevalence of mental health conditions in West and East Germany across 30 years. Specifically, the data provides insights into life satisfaction, ...
In:
Ayline Heller, Peter Schmidt ,
Thirty Years After the Berlin Wall
London: Routledge
25-51
| Theresa Entringer, Laura Buchinger, Lisa Güttschow
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Objectives: Understanding how social categories like gender, migration background, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) status, education, and their intersections affect health outcomes is crucial. Challenges include avoiding stereotypes and fairly assessing health outcomes. This paper aims to demonstrate how to analyze these aspects. Study Design and Setting: The study used data from N = 19,994 ...
In:
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
173 (2024), 111446
| Michael Erhart, Doreen Müller, Paul Gellert, Julie L. O'Sullivan
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Early life course conditions and the social origin of families frequently influence the inequalities people experience in adulthood. The transition from education to work is a challenging period during which adolescents make their first employment-related choices and establish the course of their careers. Future expectations guide adolescents’ employment-related choices and are assumed to influence ...
In:
Advances in Life Course Research
61 (2024), 100629
| Frederike Esche, Petra Böhnke
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Various institutional hurdles such as asylum procedures, employment bans and residency restrictions impair the labor market integration of refugees. These hurdles are prevalent particularly at the beginning of their stay, and are reduced over time, as shown by analyses based on the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees. Language and other integration programs also gradually facilitate integration into the ...
Nürnberg:
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB),
2024,
(IAB-Kurzbericht No. 10/2024)
| Herbert Brücker, Maye Ehab Samy, Philipp Jaschke, Yuliya Kosyakova
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Divorce marks the legal endpoint of a marital union. While divorce is increasingly seen as a ‘clean break’, the past marital history of the couple may nevertheless shape their present conditions. In particular, there may be a legacy of a highly gendered division of labour during marriage that may affect the ex-spouses’ earning trajectories beyond the date of divorce. Using register data from the German ...
In:
Population Research and Policy Review
42 (2023), 2, 23
| Daniel Brüggmann, Michaela Kreyenfeld
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The everyday experiences and opportunities of people in Germany depend crucially on their income. Income inequality becomes a social problem at the latest when it contributes to the alienation of individual groups from the democratic system. Based on the persistently high level of income inequality, the distribution report traces the different realities of people's lives and makes it clear that ...
Düsseldorf:
Hans Böckler Stiftung,
2023,
(WSI Distribution Report No. 90e)
| Jan Brülle, Dorothee Spannagel