There is as yet little scientific knowledge about the migration biographies, routes, and experiences of immigrants living in Germany. But a longitudinal study started in 2013 is to close this gap. Each year, 5,000 people with a migration background and their family members are surveyed for the...

Perceived control plays an important role in shaping development throughout adulthood and old age. Using data from the adult lifespan sample of the national German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP; N 10,000, covering 25 years of measurement), we explored long-term antecedents, correlates, and...

Mit einer repräsentativen Befragung von insgesamt 4 500 Geflüchteten stellen das Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), das Forschungszentrum des Bundesamtes für Migration und Flüchtlinge (BAMF-FZ) und das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP) am DIW Berlin eine völlig neue...

A new representative survey of a total of 4,500 recently arrived refugees to Germany conducted by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), the Research Centre of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF-FZ), and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at the German Institute for...

[Zusammenfassung - Die Befragung] Die IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Befragung von Geflüchteten ist eine jährliche Wiederholungsbefragung, die im Längsschnitt rund 4.500 Geflüchtete befragt. Im ersten Teil wurden 2016 2.349 Geflüchtete interviewt, die in 1.766 Haushalten leben. Der zweite Teil der Befragung...

Die Befragung: Die IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Befragung von Geflüchteten ist eine jährliche Wiederholungsbefragung, die im Längsschnitt rund 4.500 Geflüchtete befragt. Im ersten Teil wurden 2016 2.349 Geflüchtete interviewt, die in 1.766 Haushalten leben. Der zweite Teil der Befragung ist bis Dezember...

Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. In this chapter, we argue that focusing on a phase of life during which this positive picture does not necessarily prevail promises to help us better understand between-person disparities in the...

Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. However, evidence is emerging that late in life well-being declines considerably. Using long-term longitudinal data of deceased participants in national samples from Germany, the UK, and the US, we examine...

Lifespan psychological research has long been interested in the contextual embeddedness of individual development. To examine if and how regional factors relate to between-person disparities in the progression of late-life well-being, we applied three-level growth curve models to 24-year...