This recent study by Silvia Loi and colleagues examines how life events like job loss and divorce affect the health of immigrants using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. They find that immigrants experience more rapid declines in health as they age. Moreover, they find that job loss has a stronger and more long-lasting impact on the health of immigrants, especially men. More
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The Laboratory of Population Health and Research Group Labor Demography welcomes Carla Rowold as a new team member. Carla's research interests range from gender and age inequalities, life course sociology, social demography to family and retirement policy. More
Basellini, U.; Camarda, C. G.; Booth, H.:
Thirty years on: a review of the Lee-Carter method for forecasting mortality International Journal of Forecasting 39:3, 1033–1049. (2023)
Coimbra Vieira, C.; Lohmann, S.; Zagheni, E.:
The value of cultural similarity for predicting migration: evidence from food and drink interests in digital trace data Population and Development Review, 1–28. (2024)
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Our flagship project, the Human Mortality Database, has received a major update with the release of cause-specific data series. This is the first major expansion since the addition of short-term mortality fluctuation data in 2020. More