Forschung SOEP: Soziale Ungleichheiten und Verteilung

Social Mobility and Economic Development

We explore the role of social mobility as driver of economic development. First, we draw the geography of intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a novel weighting procedure that considers the aggregate participation of cohorts to the economy in every year, we estimate the effect of changes in mobility on economic...

Phasen und Triebkräfte der Ungleichheit in Deutschland von 1840 bis 1914

Klima der Angst oder Respekt auf Augenhöhe? Erfahrungen von Hartz IV-Beziehenden mit Jobcentern im Zuge der Corona-Pandemie

Im Zuge der Corona-Pandemie wurden der Zugang zu Leistungen der Grundsicherung ver-einfacht und die Zugangsvoraussetzungen zur Gewährung von Sozialleistungen sowie die Disziplinierung der Leistungsbeziehenden abgeschwächt. Bislang ist unklar, welche Erfah-rungen Leistungsbeziehende mit diesem vereinfachten Zugang gemacht haben. Der Beitrag untersucht dies auf Basis einer quantitativen Erhebung unter ...

Redistribution and Insurance in Welfare States around the World

Redistribution across individuals within the framework of a one-year period is an empirically intensely studied question. However, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective, reducing the level of actual redistribution across individuals. In this paper, we investigate to what extent long-run redistribution diverges from annual redistribution ...

What's in a Word? Just vs. Fair vs. Appropriate Earnings for Self and Others

Despite Rawls’ famous call to distinguish between justice and fairness, these and other justice-related words often seem to be used interchangeably by both ordinary people and justice researchers. Based on a survey-embedded question wording experiment (N = 4534) fielded in Germany as part of the GESIS Panel, we explore the effects of three justice words— “just,” “fair,” and “appropriate”—on the sense ...

“GaPRisk – Groups put at Particular Risk by Covid-19”

This online workshop on the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on societal inequalities is organized as kick-off for the research project “GaPRisk – Groups put at Particular Risk by Covid-19”. The project is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and is a cooperation between the DIW Berlin, the Robert Koch Institute, and Bielefeld University. The PIs of the project are...

Ungleichheit der Haushaltsnettoeinkommen - Trends, Treiber, Politikmaßnahmen

Geringere Chancen auf ein gesundes Leben für LGBTQI*-Menschen

Die psychische und auch die körperliche Gesundheit von LGBTQI*-Menschen sind deutlich stärker beeinträchtigt als die der restlichen Bevölkerung. Befragungsdaten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) und der Universität Bielefeld zeigen, dass LGBTQI*-Menschen drei-bis viermal so häufig von psychischen Erkrankungen betroffen sind. Auch potentiell stressbedingte körperliche Krankheiten wie Herzkrankheiten, ...

Wir brauchen eine deutliche Stärkung der queeren Antidiskriminierungspolitik: Interview

Risk Preference and Entrepreneurial Investment at the Top of the Wealth Distribution

We present first evidence how individual risk preferences shape entrepreneurial investment among the very wealthy using novel survey data from the top of the wealth distribution, which have been added to the 2019 German Socio-economic Panel Study. The data include private wealth balance sheets, in particular the value of own private business assets, and a standard measure of risk tolerance. We find that ...