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This paper examines the extents and determinants of earned income inequalities in the German Democratic Republic and the ‘former’ Federal Republic of Germany. In both systems income differences can be distinguished on the basis of individual and structural inequalities as well as according to organizational and economic structures. Nevertheless, different theoretical explanations must be used, in particular ...
In:
European Sociological Review
10 (1994), 3, 199-217
| Marc Szydlik
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This paper addresses the perceived closeness of the relation between East and West German adult children and their parents who no longer live in the same household. The empirical analyses are based on the German Socio‐Economic Panel (GSOEP). They show that East German family relations are closer than West German relations. Regarding the causes for closer or weaker relations for East and West Germans ...
In:
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
16 (1996), 12, 63-88
| Marc Szydlik
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In:
Proceedings of the 1996 Second International Conference of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study Users. Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung
66 (1997), 1, 41-46
| Marc Szydlik
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Berlin:
Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Soziologie,
1997,
(Forschungsgruppe Altern und Lebenslauf (FALL), Forschungsbericht Nr. 59)
| Marc Szydlik
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In:
Hermann Kurthen, Jürgen Fijalkowski, Gert G. Wagner ,
Immigration, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Germany and the United States - Immigrant Incorporation
Stamford and London: JAI Press
119-135
| Marc Szydlik
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Given the importance of the early stages in a child’s life, and taking into account the various initiatives underway to improve preschool programs in Germany, it is remarkable only a few microdatasets cover the field of preschool education in Germany – and even fewer of these are nationally representative datasets. The majority of the existing data provide, at a minimum, basic information on attendance ...
In:
Rat für Sozial- und WirtschaftsDaten (RatSWD) ,
Building on Progress. Expanding the Research Infrastructure for the Social, Economic, and Behavioral Sciences
Opladen: Budrich Unipress
841-858
| C. Katharina Spieß
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In:
LIFE newsletter
5 (2011), 1, 2-5
| C. Katharina Spieß
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Florence:
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre,
2008,
(Innocenti Working Paper 2008-03)
| C. Katharina Spieß, Eva M. Berger, Olaf Groh-Samberg
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The positive effects of Early Childhood Programs (ECP’s) on children’s school success have been demonstrated in the literature. However, most studies were completed in the U.S.A., where ECP’s vary widely, based on differing auspice, regulation, cost, and other factors. In European countries, ECP’s are generally far more homogenous. This is particularly true for Germany where most programs are community-based ...
In:
Early Childhood Research Quarterly
18 (2003), 2, 255-270
| C. Katharina Spieß, Felix Büchel, Gert G. Wagner
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Questions about the advantages and disadvantages of sending young children to formal day care ("Kindertageseinrichtungen") have always greatly concerned parents and led to intense, if not always well informed, policy debate. Two issues have been foremost. One is whether young children removed from their parents' care for part of the day suffer long term emotional consequences, or whether ...
In:
Weekly Report
5 (2009), 5, 31-35
| C. Katharina Spieß, Charlotte Buechner