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Rationale: Numerous cross-sectional studies investigated the link between marital status and BMI in the context of competing social science theories (marriage market, marriage selection, marriage protection and social obligation), frequently offering conflicting theoretical predictions and conflicting empirical findings. Objective: This study analysed the effects of marriage, divorce, pregnancy, and ...
In:
Social Science & Medicine
186 (2017), August 2017, 148-155
| Joanna Syrda
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This empirical study investigates the determinants of self-employment propensity of Polish and Romanian immigrants in Germany. The German economy is an important object of analysis, as it is the most important destination for international migrants in the European Union. In the paper, we use the recently collected M sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine which personal, country of birth-specific ...
In:
Journal of Business Economics and Management
17 (2016), 4, 598-612
| Marek Szarucki, Jan Brzozowski, Jelena Stankevičienė
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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