Forschung SOEP: Soziale Ungleichheiten und Verteilung

DECIPHE – Demographic Change and the Intergenerational Persistence in Homeownership in Europe

DECIPHE ist das erste Projekt, das umfassend untersucht, ob und wie tiefgreifend sich demografische Veränderungen in Europa auf die intergenerationale Persistenz von Wohneigentum auswirken. Dabei werden Unterschiede zwischen Ländern, Regionen und Geburtskohorten berücksichtigt. Das Projekt nimmt  eine Lebensverlaufsperspektive auf Wohneigentum ein, bei der die Präferenzen und Ressourcen der...

DECIPHE – Demographic Change and the Intergenerational Persistence in Homeownership in Europe

DECIPHE is the first project to comprehensively study whether and how profound demographic changes in Europe impact the intergenerational persistence of homeownership, considering variations across countries, regions, and birth cohorts. It adopts a life course framework on housing tenure, in which individuals’ homeownership is shaped by their household members’ preferences and resources and...

High-Income Households Emit More Greenhouse Gases, Primarily Due to Transport Behavior

Greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced by 65 percent compared to 1990 by 2030 to achieve national climate targets. Nearly one third of greenhouse gas emissions in Germany are caused by private household consumption. Using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data, this Weekly Report calculates the amount of CO2 equivalents emitted by households due to residential energy use, nutrition, and transport in Germany. ...

Reiche verursachen doppelt so viel Emissionen wie Haushalte mit Niedrigeinkommen – vor allem durch Flugreisen

Zwei DIW-Studien beschäftigen sich mit Treibhausgasemissionen der Haushalte in Deutschland und nachhaltigem Konsum ­– Insbesondere Flugreisen vergrößern CO2-Fußabdruck der Haushalte mit hohem Einkommen beträchtlich ­– Bei Ernährung und Wohnen machen Einkommen kaum einen Unterschied – Soll Konsum nachhaltiger Produkte zunehmen, müssen einkommensschwache Haushalte berücksichtigt werden Jeder in Deutschland ...

How Do My Earnings Compare? Pay Referents and Just Earnings

Comparisons are crucial in shaping evaluations of one’s own position. Following this notion, we investigated the role of historical, financial, partner, occupational, and regional pay referents in predicting the just gross hourly earnings in a representative sample of German workers. Looking at this broad range of pay referents, we find that higher reference earnings were generally associated with ...

Is the First Language a Resource, an Obstacle, or Irrelevant for Language Minority Students’ Education?

Successful integration into the education system is of major importance for the future prospects of immigrants and their children as well as for the social cohesion and viability of the receiving societies. Language is generally viewed as an important aspect of this integration. Whereas there is widespread agreement that the language of the residence country (L2) is crucial for students’ educational ...

Income-Dependent Equivalence Scales and Choice Theory: Implications for Poverty Measurement

The study of poverty is at the heart of economics, and the goal of overcoming it drives the efforts of policy-makers worldwide. Meeting such goals requires confidence (a) in the tools we have to measure poverty, and (b) in our understanding of the determinants of poverty. Here, we focus on the role of household composition in the measurement and analysis of poverty. After presenting some core concepts, ...

Inequality and Its Drivers in Germany, 1840-1914

First Time around: Local Conditions and Multi-dimensional Integration of Refugees

We study the effect of local unemployment and attitudes towards immigrants at the time of arrival on refugees’ multi-dimensional integration outcomes. We leverage a centralized allocation policy in Germany where refugees were centrally assigned to live in specific counties. To measure sentiments of native residents towards immigrants, we use geo-coded Twitter data, which provides our “negative sentiment ...

Entkoppelte Lebenswelten? Soziale Beziehungen und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt in Deutschland - Erster Zusammenhaltsbericht des FGZ: Erster Zusammenhaltsbericht des FGZ

Mit dem vorliegenden Bericht eröffnen wir unsere Reihe der Zusammenhaltsberichte desFGZ. Die Zusammenhaltsberichte sollen auf der Grundlage der im FGZ erhobenen Dateneine interessierte Öffentlichkeit über zentrale Befunde und Analysen zum gesellschaftlichenZusammenhalt in Deutschland informieren. Mit dem Fokus auf Datenerhebungen ergänzendie am Forschungsdatenzentrum des FGZ (FDZ-FGZ) koordinierten ...