Forschung SOEP: Subjektives Wohlbefinden, Persönlichkeit und Gesundheit

Career Decisions over the Life-cycle: The Impact of Social Insurance Policies

Work-limiting disabilities pose a significant risk to the earnings potential and welfare of older workers. While coverage of public disability insurance (DI) systems is almost universal, the risk of becoming dependent on DI varies across occupations. In this paper, I study the value of public DI across different occupations using data from administrative social security records in Germany. I...

Reversing the Reversal? A Systematic Reassessment and Meta-Analysis of Wellbeing Research

Fierce debate over the feasibility of cardinally measuring utility – or ‘wellbeing’ – with surveys has recently resurfaced. Several prominent papers claimed that when interpreting survey data as strictly ordinal, most of the literature’s results are easily reversed. We systematically assess this claim. To do so, we replicate the universe of wellbeing research published in top economics journals...

Beyond Hot Flashes: The Health and Career Cost of Menopause

Menopause marks a crucial juncture in women's lives and careers, coinciding with the peak of their income and working hours trajectory. On average, a third of women encounter severe health problems during this phase, exposing them to the risk of adverse labor market and health outcomes. Leveraging Norwegian registry data, coupled with panel data on doctor visits related to menopausal issues and...

Geflüchtete in Deutschland: Hürden zur Gesundheitsversorgung und zu Hilfen sehr hoch

Drei Studien auf Basis der IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Befragung von Geflüchteten – Durch Änderung des Asylbewerberleistungsgesetzes dürfte sich Wartezeit auf reguläre Gesundheitsversorgung für Geflüchtete auf zwei Jahre verdoppeln – Inanspruchnahme von Hilfen zur Integration bei Geflüchteten ungleich verteilt – Zentrale Mittelmeerroute weltweit der tödlichste Fluchtweg Ende Februar wurde das Asylbewerberleistungsgesetz ...

Verlängerte Leistungseinschränkungen für Geflüchtete: Negative Konsequenzen für Gesundheit – erhoffte Einsparungen dürften ausbleiben

Bis zum Abschluss ihres Asylverfahrens haben Geflüchtete nur einen eingeschränkten Anspruch auf Gesundheitsleistungen. Ende Februar 2024 wurde die maximale Dauer dieser Einschränkung von 18 auf 36 Monate verlängert. Diese Änderung dürfte die tatsächliche Wartezeit, die – wie Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) zeigen – derzeit bei über einem Jahr liegt, verdoppeln. Besonders betroffen sind ...

Gesundheit spielt auch für die Integration eine Schlüsselrolle: Interview

Teleworking and Life Satisfaction during COVID-19: The Importance of Family Structure

We carry out a difference-in-differences analysis of a real-time survey conducted as part of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) survey and show that teleworking had a negative average effect on life satisfaction over the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This average effect hides considerable heterogeneity, reflecting gender-role asymmetries: lower life satisfaction is found only for unmarried ...

Education and Pandemic SARS-CoV-2 Infections in the German Working Population: The Mediating Role of Working from Home

Objectives SARS-CoV-2 infections were unequally distributed during the pandemic, with those in disadvantaged socioeconomic positions being at higher risk. Little is known about the underlying mechanism of this association. This study assessed to what extent educational differences in SARS-CoV-2 infections were mediated by working from home.Methods We used data of the German working population derived ...

Life Events and Life Satisfaction: Estimating Effects of Multiple Life Events in Combined Models

How do life events affect life satisfaction? Previous studies focused on a single event or separate analyses of several events. However, life events are often grouped non-randomly over the lifespan, occur in close succession, and are causally linked, raising the question of how to best analyze them jointly. Here, we used representative German data (SOEP; N = 40,121 individuals; n = 41,402 event occurrences) ...

Gesundheit spielt auch für die Integration eine Schlüsselrolle : Interview mit Cornelia Kristen