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COVID-19 Lockdown in Germany

The Mental Health of Young Mothers Suffers
Daycare centers and schools closed, little support for childcare outside the home, and frequent remote work from home: this situation during the first COVID-19 wave in the spring of 2020 led to a significant increase in stress and exhaustion in Germany, especially among mothers of young children living in partnerships.

Daycare centers and schools closed, little support for childcare outside the home, and frequent remote work from home: this situation during the first COVID-19 wave in the spring of 2020 led to a significant increase in stress and exhaustion in Germany, especially among mothers of young children living in partnerships.

Anna Oksuzyan
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Ageing and Life Expectancy
Working Life
Does Culture Matter for Integration? Empirical Patterns and Regulation of Difference

Annual Conferences on Migration and Diversity

Wed Sep 14 - Fri Sep 16
This conference seeks to advance the analytical understanding of the role of culture and religion in shaping integration trajectories of immigrants and their descendants, the degree and the determinants of cultural assimilation and the role of receiving and sending society institutions in regulating cultural diversity arising from immigration.

This conference seeks to advance the analytical understanding of the role of culture and religion in shaping integration trajectories of immigrants and their descendants, the degree and the determinants of cultural assimilation and the role of receiving and sending society institutions in regulating cultural diversity arising from immigration.

COVerAGE-Database

MPIDR launches COVerAGE-Database Website

The website for the COVerAGE-Database, a global demographic database on COVID-19, was published recently by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. More than 70 researchers from around the world collaborated to collect COVID-19 data from 120 countries, standardising it and making it available online.

The website for the COVerAGE-Database, a global demographic database on COVID-19, was published recently by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. More than 70 researchers from around the world collaborated to collect COVID-19 data from 120 countries, standardising it and making it available online.

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Will we ever see them again?

Return migration of German-affiliated researchers
Xinyi Zhao (MPIDR, University of Oxford), Samin Aref (University of Toronto), Emilio Zagheni MPIDR) and Guy Stecklov (University of British Columbia) analysed the migration rates of internationally mobile researchers returning to Germany, tracking location data obtained from institutional affiliations identified from millions of Scopus publications.

Xinyi Zhao (MPIDR, University of Oxford), Samin Aref (University of Toronto), Emilio Zagheni MPIDR) and Guy Stecklov (University of British Columbia) analysed the migration rates of internationally mobile researchers returning to Germany, tracking location data obtained from institutional affiliations identified from millions of Scopus publications.

Demografischer Wandel ist mehr als Alterung

Demographic change is more than ageing

Mon Jul 11
New and previously unknown insights into the diversity of demographic change with the help of newly developed population diagrams will be presented by the BiB at a press conference on 11 July 2022 from 14:30.

New and previously unknown insights into the diversity of demographic change with the help of newly developed population diagrams will be presented by the BiB at a press conference on 11 July 2022 from 14:30.

Intergenerational relationships in Germany: A review of insights from pairfam

Intergenerational relationships in Germany: A review of insights from pairfam

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The current article aims to take stock of the main insights into intergenerational relationships in Germany gained from the German Family Panel (pairfam) since its start in 2008.

The current article aims to take stock of the main insights into intergenerational relationships in Germany gained from the German Family Panel (pairfam) since its start in 2008.

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First set of FReDA data available now

As of May 31, 2022, FReDA data from the W1R recruitment wave are available to the scientific community.

As of May 31, 2022, FReDA data from the W1R recruitment wave are available to the scientific community

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Commuting willingness and actual commuting behaviour

Does individual willingness to commute long distances influence commuting behaviour or vice versa?
Heiko Rüger, Nico Stawarz, Thomas Skora (Federal Institute for Population Research, BiB) and Brenton M. Wiernik (University of South Florida) use longitudinal data from the Job Mobilities and Family Lives in Europe survey to examine the relationship between the willingness to commute long distances and actual commuting behavior.

Heiko Rüger, Nico Stawarz, Thomas Skora (Federal Institute for Population Research, BiB) and Brenton M. Wiernik (University of South Florida) use longitudinal data from the Job Mobilities and Family Lives in Europe survey to examine the relationship between the willingness to commute long distances and actual commuting behavior.

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