Forschung SOEP: Soziale Ungleichheiten und Verteilung

Auswirkungen der Coronapandemie nach Einkommens- und Bevölkerungsschichtung: eine Momentaufnahme

Private Vermögen – Höhe, Entwicklung und Verteilung

Time Spent on School-Related Activities at Home During the Pandemic: A Longitudinal Analysis of Social Group Inequality among Secondary School Students

Substantial educational inequalities have been documented in Germany for decades. In this article, we examine whether educational inequalities among children have increased or remained the same since the school closures of spring 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our perspective is longitudinal: We compare the amount of time children in secondary schools spent on school-related activities at home ...

Grading in Secondary Schools in Germany: The Impact of Social Origin and Gender

In the German school system, grades are the essential means of performance feedback and assignment. However, little research has been conducted on the factors that determine grades in addition to competencies, and existing findings are poorly replicated. Using data from the representative IQB Trends in Student Performance 2015 survey, our analysis combined a variety of personal and structural characteristics ...

Overcoming Barriers to Service Access: Refugees’ Professional Support Service Utilization and the Impact of Human and Social Capital

After arriving in a new country, refugees are most often dependent on professional support to reestablish their livelihood. It is however well documented that refugees face barriers when seeking access to services aimed at facilitating their settlement and integration. This study examines refugees’ support service needs and their actual utilization and investigates the impact of social and human capital ...

Prejudice in Disguise: Which Features Determine the Subtlety of Ethnically Prejudicial Statements?

In current immigration debates ethnic prejudice is often expressed in a subtle manner, which conceals its xenophobic content. However, previous research has only insufficiently examined the specific features that make certain ethnically prejudicial statements subtler, i.e., less readily identifiable as xenophobic, than others. The current study employs an experimental factorial survey design and assesses ...

Die Sozialkaufprämie – ein Vorschlag zur Ergänzung der Immobilienförderung in Deutschland

Die Schaffung bezahlbaren Wohnraums ist eines der drängendsten sozialen Probleme für die künftige Bundesregierung. Entsprechend finden sich in verschiedenen Wahlprogrammen Vorschläge zur Wohnungsfrage. Dieser Bericht macht einen neuen Vorschlag zur Ergänzung der Immobilienförderung in Deutschland. Das vorgeschlagene Modell berücksichtigt die bestehenden staatlichen Förderprogramme zum Aufbau von Eigenkapital ...

Sozialkaufprämie soll eigenkapitalschwachen Haushalten Immobilienkauf ermöglichen

Polit-ökonomische Aspekte des Berichts zur Lage der Verbraucher:innen

Der Sachverständigenrat für Verbraucherfragen hat erstmals ein breit angelegtes Gutachten zur Lage der Verbraucher:innen in Deutschland vorgelegt. Gert G. Wagner, Mitglied im Sachverständigenrat für Verbraucherfragen, stellt aus seiner persönlichen Sicht ausgewählte Analysen, Ergebnisse und Empfehlungen vor. Über das Gutachten hinausgehend wird auch auf relevante Ereignisse hingewiesen, die nach Abschluss ...

Panel Data in Research on Mobility and Migration: A Review of Recent Advances

Panel data has become the gold standard for causal assessments of complex human behaviour in quantitative social science. The objective of this review is to examine and discuss how panel data and related methods contribute to the identification of causal relationships in spatial mobility research. We illustrate this by providing a succinct overview of recent progress in spatial mobility research, drawing ...