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Background Populations experiencing precarity face heightened mental health inequities, especially during crises. In this regard, it is established that socio-economic status (SES) and social isolation are critical factors influencing mental health outcomes, which interact syndemically. Understanding their interrelated mechanisms is crucial for developing effective public health strategies to support ...
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SSM - Population Health
31 (2025), 101822
| Victoria Touzel, Doreen Reifegerste, Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Louise Biddle
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The current work relies on G-SOEP to study the effects of import competition on fertility choices. This phenomenon has been addressed by using a single-observation dataset following the seminal paper of Autor et al. (2014). The results show a negative and significant effect on the choice of childbearing.Moreover, the trade exposure measure has been computed by aggregating the Lander and, in a second ...
2025,
| Giulia Ulivieri
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This article compares the promotion prospects of East Germans in leadership and elite positions. It starts from the observation that East Germans have lower chances of reaching leadership positions, although these have converged with those of West Germans in younger birth cohorts. Theoretical considerations on the distinction between leadership and elite positions, along with empirical findings based ...
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Zeitschrift für Soziologie
54 (2025), 2, 224–237
| Lars Vogel
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Social science research gives rise to what we call the ?refugee mobility puzzle?: While restrictions on the freedom of residence limit refugees? socio-economic integration, those who do not face such restrictions often move to areas with high unemployment that similarly hinder their labor market prospects. This study addresses a central element of this puzzle: What draws refugees to high unemployment ...
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
51 (2025), 5, 1075–1097
| Jonas Wiedner, Merlin Schaeffer
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Data quality is known to be compromised when respondents cognitively shortcut the survey response process. This satisficing behavior leads to inaccurate and unreliable responses that are hard to compensate after data collection. Thus, detecting and understanding surrvey satisficing is crucial for developing and implementing effective preventive measures in longitudinal data collection contexts. We ...
OSFPreprints:
2025,
| Julia Witton, Carina Cornesse
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DIW focus / 2025
The integration chances of refugees in their host country are critically shaped by the contextual conditions of the location to which they are assigned upon arrival. Several research groups have developed algorithmic tools to optimize refugee-location matching, with the overall aim of improving refugees’ integration outcomes. These tools are used in a highly sensitive context and thus their design, ...
2025| Christoph Kern, Jakob Kappenberger, Frederic Gerdon, Clara Strasser Ceballos, Daria Szafran, Florian Rupp, Ruben L. Bach
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The new German federal government coalition is planning a significant tax break for workers of retirement age: the active pension (Aktivrente). With the active pension, workers who have reached the statutory retirement age may earn up to 2,000 euros a month tax-free, a move that the government is hoping will motivate more pensioners to work longer to counteract the skilled worker shortage. Microsimulation ...
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DIW Weekly Report 25+26/2025
DIW Weekly Report 25+26/2025
| Stefan Bach, Hermann Buslei, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Joris Pieper
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Motivated by research on gender identity norms and the distribution of the woman’s share in a couple’s total labor income, we consider additive regression models for densities as responses with scalar covariates. To preserve nonnegativity and integration to one under vector space operations, we formulate the model for densities in a Bayes Hilbert space, which allows to not only consider continuous ...
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The Annals of Applied Statistics
19 (2025), 1, 680–700
| Eva-Maria Maier, Almond Stöcker, Bernd Fitzenberger, Sonja Greven
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Aktives Management gilt als ein Schlüssel für unternehmerischen Erfolg. Allerdings wurde die Bedeutung von Managementpraktiken bislang ausschließlich für große und mittlere Unternehmen untersucht. Neue Daten aus dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP) ermöglichen nun erstmals eine Analyse für kleine und kleinste Unternehmen (KKU) in Deutschland. Die Ergebnisse zeigen zum einen, dass Kernaktivitäten, wie ...
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DIW Wochenbericht
92 (2025), 26, 407-413
| Alexander Kritikos, Knarik Poghosyan, Alexander Schiersch
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Mit der Aktivrente plant die neue Regierungskoalition eine kräftige steuerliche Begünstigung von erwerbstätigen Rentner*innen. Diese sollen bis zu 2000 Euro im Monat steuerfrei hinzuverdienen können. Die Regierung erhofft sich, damit mehr Rentner*innen zum Weiterarbeiten zu motivieren und so dem Fachkräftemangel entgegenzuwirken. Mikrosimulationsanalysen auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) ...
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DIW Wochenbericht
92 (2025), 25, 395-402
| Stefan Bach, Hermann Buslei, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Joris Pieper