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Arbeit und Beschäftigung: Abschlussbericht Repräsentativbefragung zur Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderungen
Published in Abschlussbericht Repräsentativbefragung zur Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderungen, 2022
In diesem Kapitel stehen mit den Erwerbs- und Beschäftigungschancen von beeinträchtigten und behinderten Menschen weitere zentrale Dimensionen gesellschaftlicher Teilhabe im Mittelpunkt. Neben der Erwerbsbeteiligung und verschiedenen Gründen für eine eventuelle Nichterwerbstätigkeit werden dabei auch die Art und Qualität der Beschäftigung, das Vorliegen besonderer Unterstützungsbedarfe und die selbst eingeschätzten beruflichen Entwicklungschancen betrachtet. Dabei wird zunächst die Situation von Menschen in Privathaushalten betrachtet, bevor ausgewählte Befunde zur Lage von Menschen in Einrichtungen präsentiert werden.
Recommended citation: Heisig, J.P., König, C. and Solga, H. (2022) “Bildung,” in Abschlussbericht Repräsentativbefragung zur Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderungen. Bonn: Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales.
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Bildung: Abschlussbericht Repräsentativbefragung zur Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderungen
Published in Abschlussbericht Repräsentativbefragung zur Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderungen, 2022
Bildung und Bildungsabschlüsse sind in unserer Gesellschaft zentral für die Teilhabe am gesellschaftlichen Leben und für ein ökonomisch selbstbestimmtes Leben. Es ist bekannt, dass der Schulabschluss den Zugang zu Ausbildung und Studium beeinflusst und Bildungsabschlüsse wiederum in einem starken Zusammenhang beispielsweise mit den Erwerbschancen und beruflichen Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten, der Gesundheit, der politischen Partizipation und der materiellen Sicherheit stehen. Von daher ist es wichtig zu wissen, ob und wie stark eine Beeinträchtigung mit Unterschieden in den erworbenen Bildungsabschlüssen verbunden ist. Erfasst wurden in der Befragung jeweils der höchste Schul- und der höchste Ausbildungsabschluss zum Interviewzeitpunkt; über Bildungsbiographien oder Ausbildungsberufe oder Studienfächer können keine Aussagen getroffen werden.
Recommended citation: Heisig, J.P., König, C. and Solga, H. (2022) “Bildung,” in Abschlussbericht Repräsentativbefragung zur Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderungen. Bonn: Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales.
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Materielle Situation: Abschlussbericht Repräsentativbefragung zur Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderungen
Published in Abschlussbericht Repräsentativbefragung zur Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderungen, 2022
In diesem Kapitel wird dargestellt, wie sich unter anderem Einschränkungen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt – insbesondere von Menschen mit selbsteingeschätzter Behinderung – in der ökonomischen Situation und materiellen Sicherheit widerspiegeln. Dazu werden zunächst Umfang und Unterschiede in den Erwerbseinkommen von Personen im erwerbsfähigen Alter und anschließend die ökonomische Situation aller Befragten berichtet.
Recommended citation: Heisig, J.P., König, C. and Solga, H. (2022) “Bildung,” in Abschlussbericht Repräsentativbefragung zur Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderungen. Bonn: Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales.
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Environmental inequality and health outcomes over the life course
Published in Handbook of Health Inequalities Across the Life Course, 2023
This handbook chapter reviews conceptual and empirical work on how environmental quality affects health and on the social processes that generate unequal exposure. Embedding the discussion in a life-course perspective, we highlight dynamic, interdependent links between environmental quality, health, and other life domains such as education: early-life exposures, including in utero insults, may have immediate effects and also initiate latent processes that manifest as disease much later, potentially amplified by cumulative disadvantage. The review of empirical research centers on air pollution—where a large quasi-experimental literature provides compelling causal evidence of substantial health impacts and includes briefer treatments of extreme heat, green space, and noise. While selective, the review builds on and extends prior syntheses of pollution and greenspace effects. The chapter then addresses the distribution of environmental harms across social groups. Rather than treating residential sorting merely as a nuisance for causal inference, the authors emphasize sorting as a substantive equity issue: why do disadvantaged groups more often reside in unhealthy environments? Prominent explanations include financial constraints, housing and credit-market discrimination, and historical “legacy” patterns of segregation.
Recommended citation: König, C. and Heisig, J.P. (2023) “Environmental inequality and health outcomes over the life course,” in R. Hoffmann (ed.) Handbook of Health Inequalities Across the Life Course. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 327–348. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800888166.00030.
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Neighborhood structure and environmental quality: A fine-grained analysis of spatial inequalities in urban Germany
Published in Urban Studies, 2024
Urban environments are characterised by sparsity of space, elevated levels of air pollution and limited exposure to natural environments. Yet, residential environmental quality varies substantially both between and within cities. This study combines information on the socio-economic and demographic composition of 243,607 urban neighbourhoods with administrative and remote sensing data on the spatial distribution of industrial plants and urban green space to investigate patterns of environmental inequality in urban Germany at unprecedented levels of spatial granularity. It disentangles neighbourhood disadvantages experienced by foreign minorities (non-nationals) from those experienced by low-income households in order to assess the plausibility of economic explanations of residential sorting. The high level of spatial granularity makes it possible to examine patterns of environmental inequality not only between the relatively large areas that have been used as units of analysis in previous work but also within them, while reducing the threat of ecological bias. Results indicate that non-nationals are more likely to be exposed to industrial air pollution and less likely to live close to green spaces. This association holds even after adjusting for neighbourhood income composition and in fixed-effects specifications that restrict the analysis to within-city variation. I find no evidence for environmental inequality by socio-economic status. Exploratory sub-sample analyses show that neighbourhood disadvantages for non-nationals are higher in cities characterised by high levels of anti-foreigner sentiment, pointing towards housing market discrimination as a potentially important driver of foreign residents’ neighbourhood disadvantage.
Recommended citation: König, C. (2024) “Neighbourhood structure and environmental quality: A fine-grained analysis of spatial inequalities in urban Germany,” Urban Studies, 61(10), pp. 1968–1989. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231224224.
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Understanding Variation in Neighborhood Environmental Inequalities: The Influence of Residential Segregation, Gentrification, and other City-Level Factors
Published in SocArXiv, 2024
Exposure to environmental burdens, such air and noise pollution or the lack of available green spaces, has been linked to a multitude of detrimental outcomes. Previous evidence indicates that poor residents and foreign minorities in European cities are disproportionately exposed to environmental burdens. However, there are substantial but ill-understood differences between European countries and between cities within countries. To address this limitation, we utilise fine-grained 1km-by-1km neighbourhood grid data on objective air and noise pollution as well as green space availability, enriched with administrative data on poverty rates and foreign minority shares from all German cities with at least 100,000 inhabitants in 2017. We examine whether poor residents and foreign minorities are more often affected by environmental burdens, how their exposure to environmental burdens differs between cities, and what city-specific contextual factors contribute to these between-city differences. We find evidence that foreign minorities are more likely to be exposed to environmental burdens, but poor residents are predominantly not. However, there is considerable variation between cities. The strongest explanatory factor for this variation is the extent to which disadvantaged groups live in central neighbourhoods, less so residential segregation of poor and foreign residents, or the scarcity of ‘clean and healthy’ neighbourhoods in a city. Against these results, we further explore empirically how the current wave of inner-city gentrification might ease environmental inequality in German cities.
Recommended citation: König, C., Salomo, K. and Helbig, M. (2024) “Understanding Variation in Neighbourhood Environmental Inequalities: The Influence of Residential Segregation, Gentrification, and other City-Level Factors.” OSF. Available at: https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/j4tf2.
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Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015
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