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The average gender pay gap in Germany is 16 percent according to the most recent data. On the occasion of the 2025 Equal Pay Day, this Weekly Report using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data shows that considerable differences according to age and level of education are hiding behind this average gap. For example, the gender pay gap increases significantly with age for people of all educational backgrounds ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
15 (2025), 18/19, 109-115
| Fiona Herrmann, Katharina Wrohlich
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Migrants living in postindustrial countries are confronted with various socioeconomic challenges, including lower incomes, extended working hours, and lower occupational statuses than natives. Although health disparities linked to occupational positions have frequently been documented, they remain a relatively unexplored factor in the explanation of health gaps over time between migrants and native ...
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KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
77 (2025), 1, 27-52
| Manuel Holz, Jochen Mayerl
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This work presents evidence of causal effects of parental education on children’s health behaviors and long-term health. I study intergenerational effects of a compulsory schooling increase in Germany, exploiting the staggered introduction of the reform with difference-in-differences models and event studies. Maternal schooling reduces children’s smoking and being overweight in adolescence. The effects ...
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An Intergenerational Perspective
60 (2025), 3, 743-779
| Mathias Huebener
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Background: Characterized by uncertainty and recurring periods of social isolation, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in increases of loneliness and distress in young adults, such as university students. Despite the lifting of the last restrictions in Germany in April 2023, the state of mental health in vulnerable groups after the three-year global crisis remains to be investigated. Therefore, we aimed ...
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Clinical Psychology in Europe
7 (2025), 2, 1-23
| Joanna J. Hunsmann, Florian Weck, Julia Wendt, Franziska Kühne
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Background Health system resilience, the ability of a health system to maintain its functions under stress, has received increasing attention in recent years. Shortcomings in health system resilience are often most visible in the most vulnerable settings, including the care for asylum seekers and refugees. We therefore examined how the German health system responded to challenges and uncertainties ...
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Social Science & Medicine
381 (2025), 118174
| Rosa Jahn, Clara Perplies, Eilin Rast, Louise Biddle, Andreas W. Gold, Kayvan Bozorgmehr
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Einleitung: Impfungen und die damit verbundene Impfberatung sind Aufgaben des Öffentlichen Gesundheitsdienstes (ÖGD). Neben Gesundheitsämtern informieren andere Behörden über Nutzen und Risiken von Impfungen. Weitere Informationsquellen sind z.B. die ärztliche Praxis, Apotheken, Fernsehen, soziale Medien, aber auch private Gespräche. Einige Informationsquellen bieten unabsichtlich, andere gezielt Fehlinformationen ...
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Gesundheitswesen
87 (2025), S 01, 64-65
| Susanne Jordan, Sarah Jane Böttger, Sabine Zinn
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This paper examines the factors shaping refugees? institutionalised and generalised trust, focusing on three key influences: (1) pre-arrival migration effects, such as experiences of trauma; (2) asylum procedure effects, including the length and outcome of the process and perceptions of fairness; and (3) post-procedure effects, particularly the context of reception. Using data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP ...
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
(online first) (2025), 1-20
| Agnieszka Kanas, Frank van Tubergen, Yuliya Kosyakova
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We examine the association between cohabitation and women’s and men’s wealth, closely considering the distinct regulatory and normative contexts in France and Eastern and Western Germany. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (2002–2017) and the French wealth survey Histoire de Vie et Patrimoine (2014/15-2020/21), we apply fixed-effects regression models to examine potential ...
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Socio-Economic Review
23 (2025), 2, 591-620
| Nicole Kapelle, Nicolas Frémeaux, Philipp M Lersch, Marion Leturcq
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This paper exploits the linkage of German administrative social security data (GER: Integrierte Erwerbsbiografien) and survey data from the socio-economic panel (GER: Sozio-ökonomisches Panel, SOEP) for the characterization of measurement error in metrics quantifying individual-specific labor earnings in Germany. We find that survey participants’ decision whether to consent to linkage is non-random ...
Cornell University,
2025,
(arXiv preprint)
| Nico Thurow
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Objective: This article studies the intergenerational stability of employment in families of immigrants cross-nationally by investigating to what extent contextual differences between sending and receiving countries affect the transmission of labour force participation from mothers to daughters. Background: It is often argued that a low level of labour force participation among female immigrants reflects ...
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Journal of Family Research
33 (2021), 2, 351-404
| Dorian Tsolak, Marvin Bürmann, Martin Kroh