This study examines whether children from potentially disadvantaged families attend early
childhood education and care (ECEC) centers of lower quality compared to more …

Involuntarily or planned–many refugees flee their home country alone, leave behind
spouses and children but also siblings, parents and other family members they otherwise …

This study deals with the impact of socioeconomic conditions and social integration into a
local neighborhood on individual life satisfaction in Germany. While the majority of …

This study investigates social and ethnic differences in the use of early childhood education
and care (ECEC) centers with different learning environments in an ECEC system with …

Quantitative research in economics and related social sciences has increasingly made use
of small-scale regional data, allowing for the analyses of neighborhood effects and …

Abstract The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study is a rich resource for
sociologists, mainly because it offers direct measures of respondents' contexts. The SOEP …

The 2013 IAB-SOEP Migration Sample (M1) is a household survey conducted jointly by the
Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg and the German Socio-Economic …

With the so-called 'long summer of migration'of 2015, there was an urgent need to
accommodate many refugees in Germany. This situation was framed as a 'refugee reception …

Neighbourhoods provide unequal resources and opportunities. Past research has shown
that migrants are less able to move to more resourceful neighbourhoods. For Germany …

Life course events such as new offspring or job loss affect a household's demand for
housing. At the same time, dynamics in the real estate market constrain where households …