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SOEPpapers 123 / 2008
Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit den sozialstrukturellen Voraussetzungen, die der Dynamik bzw. dem Ausbleiben von Protestverhalten zu Grunde liegen. Ausgehend von drei theoretischen Erklärungsansätzen wird empirisch anhand von repräsentativen Mikrodaten gezeigt, dass die Konzeption der Integration der Migrantennachkommen durch die Staatsbürgerschaft und die Schule in Frankreich als ein Versprechen ...
2008| Ingrid Tucci, Olaf Groh-Samberg
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SOEPpapers 122 / 2008
This paper investigates how immigrants' Body Mass Index (BMI) changes with increasing years since migration in Germany. The data are drawn from three waves (2002, 2004, and 2006) of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). The results indicate a clear increase of the BMI with additional years in Germany for men and women.
2008| Monika Sander
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SOEPpapers 121 / 2008
This paper sets out to provide an understanding of how individuals form their preferences over the extent of their paid work involvement - their working time preferences - in different work environments and societal contexts. The main objective of the empirical analysis is to investigate how preferences of this kind are constructed at the individual level and adapted over time following changes in ...
2008| Nadia Steiber
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SOEPpapers 120 / 2008
Mit der Pilotstudie „Leben außerhalb Deutschlands“ beschreitet die Längsschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) absolutes methodisches Neuland, indem versucht wird, die Adressen ausgewanderter Teilnehmer des deutschen Haushaltspanels SOEP im Ausland zu recherchieren und die Auswanderer mit Hilfe eines eigens entwickelten Fragebogens zu den Hintergründen ihres grenzüberschreitenden Umzugs schriftlich ...
2008| Jürgen Schupp, Nico A. Siegel, Marcel Erlinghagen, Tim Stegmann, Gert G. Wagner
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SOEPpapers 119 / 2008
The aim of this paper is to investigate the hypothesis that after leaving the educational system, labour market integration has a causal effect on first-birth decisions. The analysis focuses on two major research questions: First, how is the timing of first parenthood associated with previous labour market performance? Second, can differences in first birth-risks be related to labour market performance? ...
2008| Christian Schmitt
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SOEPpapers 118 / 2008
We analyze the role of distance from a university in the decision to attend higher education in Germany. Students who live near a university can avoid moving and the increased living expenses by commuting. Thus, transaction cost arguments would suggest that the greater the distance to the nearest university, the lower the participation in higher education. We analyse this hypothesis by combining data ...
2008| C. Katharina Spieß, Katharina Wrohlich
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SOEPpapers 117 / 2008
This paper explores the relationship between risk attitude and asset diversification in household portfolios. We first examine the impact of manifested risk aversion on the total number of distinct assets held in a portfolio (naive diversification). The second part of the paper focuses on a more sophisticated strategy of diversification and asks whether financial theory is compatible with observed ...
2008| Nataliya Barasinska, Dorothea Schäfer, Andreas Stephan
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SOEPpapers 116 / 2008
Das SOEP baut seit dem Jahr 2003 das Erhebungsinstrumentarium für den Bereich der frühen Kindheit systematisch aus. Dieser Beitrag berichtet über die instrumentelle Güte eines 20 Items umfassenden Mütterfragebogens zum adaptiven Verhalten von zwei bis dreijährigen Kindern (VABS) in den Bereichen Sprache, Alltagsfertigkeiten, Motorik und soziale Beziehungen, der erstmals im Jahr 2005 eingesetzt wurde. ...
2008| Nicole Schmiade, C. Katharina Spieß, Wolfgang Tietze
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SOEPpapers 115 / 2008
Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth generally rest on the assumption of pooled and equally shared resources among all household members. Yet the lack of individual-level data hampers the distribution of income and wealth within the ousehold context. Based on unique individual-level wealth data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper challenges ...
2008| Eva M. Sierminska, Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka
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SOEPpapers 114 / 2008
This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study (GSOEP) 1984 to 2006. Econometric problems due to individuals choosing their own level of sports activities ...
2008| Michael Lechner
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SOEPpapers 113 / 2008
To study the development of wage inequality is important for the economic performance as well as for the development of employment. First, I estimate the remuneration to personal characteristics for Germans and immigrants across the wage distribution using quantile regression. My database is the German socio-economic panel for the period 1984-2006. I find a higher inequality between skill groups for ...
2008| Heiko Peters
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SOEPpapers 112 / 2008
In diesem Beitrag werden Möglichkeiten zur Analyse sozialer Unterschiede in der Lebenserwartung auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) dargestellt. Einleitend wird ein Überblick über verschiedene Datenquellen zur Analyse sozial differenzieller Sterblichkeit gegeben und der Forschungsstand für Deutschland zusammengefasst. Anschließend wird auf methodische Besonderheiten und Probleme des SOEP ...
2008| Lars Eric Kroll, Thomas Lampert
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SOEPpapers 111 / 2008
Gender-specific determinants of remittances are the subject of this study based on German SOEP data (2001-2006). In 2007, about 7.3 million foreigners were living in Germany. While the total number of foreigners has decreased over the last decade, female migration to Germany has increased. A feminization of migration is observable all over the world, and is changing gender roles in the households of ...
2008| Elke Holst, Andrea Schäfer, Mechthild Schrooten
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SOEPpapers 110 / 2008
In Deutschland stehen für Fragen der empirischen Bildungsforschung überwiegend Querschnittserhebungen zur Verfügung. Ergänzt werden diese durch länderspezifische bzw. gruppenspezifische Längsschnitterhebungen. Der Beitrag zeigt die Möglichkeiten auf, bildungsrelevante Informationen aus langlaufenden Haushaltsbefragungen wie dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP) für soziologisch wie ökonomisch gleichermaßen ...
2008| Henning Lohmann, C. Katharina Spieß, Olaf Groh-Samberg, Jürgen Schupp
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SOEPpapers 109 / 2008
Using life satisfaction as a direct measure of individual utility has become popular in the empirical economic literature. In this context, it is crucial to know what circumstances or changes the measure is sensitive to. Is life satisfaction a volatile concept that is affected by minor changes in life circumstances? Or is it a reliable measure of personal happiness? This paper will analyze the impact ...
2008| Eva M. Berger
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SOEPpapers 108 / 2008
Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur, the effects on survival are not as straightforward. Psychological research posits an inverse U-shaped relationship ...
2008| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
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SOEPpapers 107 / 2008
This paper investigates the wage convergence between East German workers and their West German counterparts after reunification. Our research is based on a comparison of three groups of workers defined as stayers, migrants and commuters to West Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with groups of West German statistical twin workers, all taken from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). According to ...
2008| Johannes Gernandt, Friedhelm Pfeiffer
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SOEPpapers 106 / 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular, job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences in the exposure to economic shocks. Public servants have stricter dismissal protection and face a lower risk ...
2008| Simon Luechinger, Stephan Meier, Alois Stutzer
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SOEPpapers 105 / 2008
Mit der Zuwanderung der Aussiedler war zumindest partiell die Erwartung verbunden, dass sie -anders als die zuvor und parallel zuwandernden nicht-deutschen Migranten - leichter in der aufnehmenden Gesellschaft aufgehen würden. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht diese Frage im Hinblick auf die Bildungschancen der Kinder der Aussiedler im Vergleich mit denen anderer Migrantenkinder und denen der autochthonen ...
2008| Marek Fuchs, Michaela Sixt
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SOEPpapers 104 / 2008
This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied. The factor decomposition of disposable ...
2008| Anna Fräßdorf, Markus M. Grabka, Johannes Schwarze