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  1. Article ; Online: Housing and integration of internally displaced persons

    Jane R. Zavisca / Beth Mitchneck / Theodore P. Gerber

    Frontiers in Human Dynamics, Vol

    The case of Ukraine in 2018

    2023  Volume 5

    Abstract: Housing is a widely recognized yet understudied domain of integration of internally displaced persons (IDPs) into their new communities. This article examines the role of housing for integration of Ukrainian IDPs displaced by Russia-fueled political ... ...

    Abstract Housing is a widely recognized yet understudied domain of integration of internally displaced persons (IDPs) into their new communities. This article examines the role of housing for integration of Ukrainian IDPs displaced by Russia-fueled political violence in Eastern Ukraine that started in 2014 or by Russia's annexation of Crimea that year. In Ukraine, housing holds particular significance for integration because homeownership is both widespread and a vital source of people's sense of wellbeing, security, and normalcy. Our evidence comes from an original 2018 survey of housing experiences of both IDPs and long-term residents in IDPs' new localities. The survey design enables us to assess housing integration relationally, by comparing gaps in housing status and subjective housing-related wellbeing between IDPs and locals. We find that for IDPs in protracted displacement, deprivation of culturally normative housing conditions, particularly homeownership, impeded both material and experiential housing integration. Disparities in housing status drive differences in subjective experience, ranging from satisfaction with one's housing to feeling at home in one's community. These results from our 2018 study may help anticipate challenges of the massive, nationwide displacement crisis precipitated by Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Whether Ukrainians resettle in new communities or return to their old ones, divisions between those who have homes to return to and those who do not are likely to be salient. Policies aimed at restoring housing resources, particularly pathways to homeownership, will be essential to rebuilding Ukraine.
    Keywords Ukraine ; housing ; internally displaced persons (IDPs) ; forced migration ; homeownership ; subjective wellbeing ; Social Sciences ; H
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-04-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Frontiers Media S.A.
    Document type Article ; Online
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  2. Article ; Online: Public opinion on human rights in Putin-era Russia: Continuities, changes, and sources of variation.

    Gerber, Theodore P

    Journal of human rights

    2017  Volume 16, Issue 3, Page(s) 314–331

    Abstract: Major setbacks in the protection of human rights during the Putin regime have produced little public outcry, suggesting that there is scant support for human rights in Russian public opinion. However, analysis of survey data spanning 2001-2015 yields ... ...

    Abstract Major setbacks in the protection of human rights during the Putin regime have produced little public outcry, suggesting that there is scant support for human rights in Russian public opinion. However, analysis of survey data spanning 2001-2015 yields several surprising conclusions. In contrast to findings from earlier studies, the data indicate that Russians think of rights in two distinct dimensions: material rights (including economic rights and rights of personal integrity) and (conventionally understood) civil liberties. Support for the former has been strong throughout the Putin era, and support for the latter has grown steadily and consistently. Moreover, support for civil liberties has increased most among less-educated and younger Russians who do not reside in Moscow and St. Petersburg: Contrary to theoretical expectations, variation in support has become less systematically linked to standard socioeconomic and demographic variables. Russians are divided over whether political NGOs should be allowed to receive foreign funding, a major issue for human rights advocates given the Russian government's crackdown on such funding and on human rights NGOs.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2017-07-28
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2136122-8
    ISSN 1475-4843 ; 1475-4835
    ISSN (online) 1475-4843
    ISSN 1475-4835
    DOI 10.1080/14754835.2016.1258550
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  3. Article: The Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Political Effects of Housing in Comparative Perspective.

    Zavisca, Jane R / Gerber, Theodore P

    Annual review of sociology

    2016  Volume 42, Page(s) 347–367

    Abstract: Few sociologists treat housing as a key independent variable, despite the emergence of disparate bodies of research analyzing how housing affects outcomes that traditionally interest sociologists. Scholars across the social sciences have proposed and ... ...

    Abstract Few sociologists treat housing as a key independent variable, despite the emergence of disparate bodies of research analyzing how housing affects outcomes that traditionally interest sociologists. Scholars across the social sciences have proposed and tested mechanisms whereby housing could shape subjective wellbeing, socioeconomic status, demography, and politics. We review the evidence for causal effects across these domains. Next, we make recommendations for research designs to advance this literature. Most studies only test effects of homeownership, and most are focused on the United States and Western Europe. The evidence for causation is often weak, although studies increasingly employ complex techniques for identifying effects. Throughout, we emphasize studies beyond the United States, and we conclude by discussing distinctive insights yielded by comparative research. We advocate for a comparative perspective and more expansive conceptualization of housing status as a means to build theory and evidence regarding the conditions under which housing exerts effects.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2016-07
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1467608-4
    ISSN 1545-2115 ; 0360-0572
    ISSN (online) 1545-2115
    ISSN 0360-0572
    DOI 10.1146/annurev-soc-081715-074333
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  4. Article ; Online: Inter-generational micro-class mobility during and after socialism: The power, education, autonomy, capital, and horizontal (PEACH) model in Hungary.

    Lippényi, Zoltán / Gerber, Theodore P

    Social science research

    2016  Volume 58, Page(s) 80–103

    Abstract: We propose a theoretical model of how occupational mobility operates differently under socialism than under market regimes. Our model specifies four vertical dimensions of occupational resources-power, education, autonomy, and capital-plus a horizontal ... ...

    Abstract We propose a theoretical model of how occupational mobility operates differently under socialism than under market regimes. Our model specifies four vertical dimensions of occupational resources-power, education, autonomy, and capital-plus a horizontal dimension consisting of linkages among occupations in the same economic branch. Given the nature of state socialist political-economic institutions, we expect power to exhibit much stronger effects in the socialist mobility regime, while autonomy and capital should play greater stratifying roles after the market transition. Education should have stable effects, and horizontal linkages should diminish in strength with market reforms. We estimate our model's parameters using data from surveys conducted in Hungary during and after the socialist period. We adopt a micro-class approach, though we test it against approaches that use more aggregated class categories. Our model provides a superior fit to other mobility models, and our results confirm our hypotheses about the distinctive features of the state socialist mobility regime. Mobility researchers often look for common patterns characterizing mobility in all industrialized societies. Our findings suggest that national institutions can produce fundamentally distinct patterns of mobility.
    MeSH term(s) Health Resources ; Humans ; Hungary ; Social Mobility ; Socialism
    Language English
    Publishing date 2016-02-13
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ISSN 1096-0317
    ISSN (online) 1096-0317
    DOI 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2015.08.010
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  5. Article ; Online: Pushed, pulled, or blocked? The elderly and the labor market in post-Soviet Russia.

    Gerber, Theodore P / Radl, Jonas

    Social science research

    2014  Volume 45, Page(s) 152–169

    Abstract: Russia provides an interesting context for studying the labor market experiences of the elderly because of its experience with market transition, its looming growth in the elderly dependency ratio, and its unusual pension policies that do not penalize ... ...

    Abstract Russia provides an interesting context for studying the labor market experiences of the elderly because of its experience with market transition, its looming growth in the elderly dependency ratio, and its unusual pension policies that do not penalize pensioners for working. We use data from twenty surveys of the Russian population conducted from February 1991 to November 2007 to analyze the labor market participation and earnings of elderly Russians following market transition. Economic desperation, exacerbated by low pension levels, pushed some elderly to seek employment for income on the labor market. Elderly Russians with more education had more opportunities to work, and education differentials increased as market reforms progressed. The correlates of earnings operate similarly for retirement- and pre-retirement age Russians, with several exceptions: unobserved factors favoring employment are negatively associated with earnings for the elderly, occupation mediates most of the effects of education, and patterns of change over time differ somewhat. Elderly Russians are not disproportionately blocked from employment following market reforms. Following the initial transition shock, their labor market activity increased. Overall, both push and pull factors shape the employment and earnings of the elderly, affecting different segments of them.
    MeSH term(s) Aged ; Employment ; Female ; Humans ; Income ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Pensions ; Political Systems ; Retirement ; Russia ; Social Change ; Social Security ; Socioeconomic Factors ; USSR
    Language English
    Publishing date 2014-01-06
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 1096-0317
    ISSN (online) 1096-0317
    DOI 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2013.12.006
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  6. Article: Migration, Household Tasks, and Gender: Evidence from the Republic of Georgia.

    Torosyan, Karine / Gerber, Theodore P / Goñalons-Pons, Pilar

    The International migration review

    2016  Volume 50, Issue 2, Page(s) 445–474

    Abstract: We examine whether migration affects the gender division of household tasks and participation in leisure within origin-country households using survey data from the Republic of Georgia. Our theoretical framework identifies two sets of mechanisms whereby ... ...

    Abstract We examine whether migration affects the gender division of household tasks and participation in leisure within origin-country households using survey data from the Republic of Georgia. Our theoretical framework identifies two sets of mechanisms whereby migration might influence gender differences in home activities: migrant experience effects and migrant absence effects. We test for both types of effects on the probability that men and women perform gender atypical household tasks and engage in leisure activities by comparing households with and without currently absent and return migrants using probit regressions. We find evidence for both migration absence and migration experience effects on gender differences in housework and leisure. However, these effects are complex and contradictory: generally, male migration tends to exacerbate gender differences in the sending household while female migration tends to ameliorate them.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2016-06
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2052202-2
    ISSN 1747-7379 ; 0197-9183
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    ISSN 0197-9183
    DOI 10.1111/imre.12147
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  7. Article: Remittances in the Republic of Georgia: correlates, economic impact, and social capital formation.

    Gerber, Theodore P / Torosyan, Karine

    Demography

    2012  Volume 50, Issue 4, Page(s) 1279–1301

    Abstract: The economic impact of remittances on migrant-sending countries has been a subject of debate in the scholarly literature on migration. We consider the topic using a household-level approach. We use a new survey, "Georgia on the Move," to examine migrant- ... ...

    Abstract The economic impact of remittances on migrant-sending countries has been a subject of debate in the scholarly literature on migration. We consider the topic using a household-level approach. We use a new survey, "Georgia on the Move," to examine migrant-level, household-level, and contextual variables associated with the probability that a household in the Republic of Georgia receives remittances. We then apply propensity score matching to estimate how remittances affect particular types of household expenditures, savings, labor supply, health, and other measures of well-being. Separate analysis of the subsample of households with a migrant currently abroad distinguishes the effects of remittances from the effects of migration as such. In Georgia, remittances improve household economic well-being without, for the most part, producing the negative consequences often suggested in the literature. We find evidence for an important aspect that has not been widely discussed in prior studies: remittances foster the formation of social capital by increasing the amount of money that households give as gifts to other households.
    MeSH term(s) Adolescent ; Adult ; Age Factors ; Emigration and Immigration/statistics & numerical data ; Female ; Georgia (Republic) ; Health Status ; Humans ; Income/statistics & numerical data ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Propensity Score ; Sex Factors ; Social Support ; Socioeconomic Factors ; Transients and Migrants/statistics & numerical data ; United Nations/statistics & numerical data ; Young Adult
    Language English
    Publishing date 2012-12-05
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 280612-5
    ISSN 1533-7790 ; 0070-3370
    ISSN (online) 1533-7790
    ISSN 0070-3370
    DOI 10.1007/s13524-013-0195-3
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  8. Book ; Online: Remittaneces in Georgia

    Gerber, Theodore P / Torosyan, Karine

    correlates, economic impact, and social formation

    (Working paper series / ISET ; 02-2010)

    2010  

    Author's details Theodore P. Gerber; Karine Torosyan
    Series title Working paper series / ISET ; 02-2010
    Language English
    Size Online-Ressource (35 S.), graph. Darst.
    Publishing place Tbilisi
    Document type Book ; Online
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  9. Article: Regional economic performance and net migration rates in Russia, 1993-2002

    Gerber, Theodore P

    International migration review : IMR Vol. 40, No. 3 , p. 661-697

    2006  Volume 40, Issue 3, Page(s) 661–697

    Author's details Theodore P. Gerber
    Keywords Regionales Wachstum ; Regionale Wirtschaftskraft ; Binnenwanderung ; Russland
    Language English
    Size Kt.
    Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
    Publishing place Malden. Mass. [u.a.]
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 3510-5
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  10. Article ; Online: Thermal ablation compared to stereotactic body radiation therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma: A multicenter retrospective comparative study.

    Moon, Andrew M / Kim, Hannah P / Singal, Amit G / Owen, Dawn / Mendiratta-Lala, Mishal / Parikh, Neehar D / Rose, Steven C / McGinty, Katrina A / Agala, Chris B / Burke, Lauren M / Abate, Anjelica / Altun, Ersan / Beyer, Christian / Do, John / Folkert, Michael R / Forbes, Chalon / Hattangadi-Gluth, Jona A / Hayashi, Paul H / Jones, Keri /
    Khatri, Gaurav / Kono, Yuko / Lawrence, Theodore S / Maurino, Christopher / Mauro, David M / Mayo, Charles S / Pak, Taemee / Patil, Preethi / Sanders, Emily C / Simpson, Daniel R / Tepper, Joel E / Thapa, Diwash / Yanagihara, Ted K / Wang, Kyle / Gerber, David A

    Hepatology communications

    2023  Volume 7, Issue 7

    Abstract: ... 88, p < 0.0001).: Conclusions: In this multicenter study of patients with HCC, SBRT was associated ...

    Abstract Background aims: Early-stage HCC can be treated with thermal ablation or stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT). We retrospectively compared local progression, mortality, and toxicity among patients with HCC treated with ablation or SBRT in a multicenter, US cohort.
    Approach results: We included adult patients with treatment-naïve HCC lesions without vascular invasion treated with thermal ablation or SBRT per individual physician or institutional preference from January 2012 to December 2018. Outcomes included local progression after a 3-month landmark period assessed at the lesion level and overall survival at the patient level. Inverse probability of treatment weighting was used to account for imbalances in treatment groups. The Cox proportional hazard modeling was used to compare progression and overall survival, and logistic regression was used for toxicity. There were 642 patients with 786 lesions (median size: 2.1 cm) treated with ablation or SBRT. In adjusted analyses, SBRT was associated with a reduced risk of local progression compared to ablation (aHR 0.30, 95% CI: 0.15-0.60). However, SBRT-treated patients had an increased risk of liver dysfunction at 3 months (absolute difference 5.5%, aOR 2.31, 95% CI: 1.13-4.73) and death (aHR 2.04, 95% CI: 1.44-2.88, p < 0.0001).
    Conclusions: In this multicenter study of patients with HCC, SBRT was associated with a lower risk of local progression compared to thermal ablation but higher all-cause mortality. Survival differences may be attributable to residual confounding, patient selection, or downstream treatments. These retrospective real-world data help guide treatment decisions while demonstrating the need for a prospective clinical trial.
    MeSH term(s) Adult ; Humans ; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular/radiotherapy ; Retrospective Studies ; Radiosurgery/adverse effects ; Liver Neoplasms/radiotherapy ; Patient Selection
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-06-14
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Multicenter Study ; Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ISSN 2471-254X
    ISSN (online) 2471-254X
    DOI 10.1097/HC9.0000000000000184
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