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SOEP-Core data 1984-2020 (v37) available

All registered data users can order the data using our online order form. In English: http://www.diw.de/SOEPorder In German: http://www.diw.de/SOEPbestellung In 2020 three new samples were added as part of the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample and the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees: A current refugee sample (Sample M6), a migration sample with migrants from Poland, Romania and Bulgaria (Sample M7) and ...

Experienced Well-Being and Labor Market Status: The Role of Pleasure and Meaning

This paper examines the experienced well-being of employed and unemployed workers. We use the survey-adapted Day Reconstruction Method of the Innovation Sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study to analyze the role of the employment status for well-being, incorporating time use. We use the novel P-index to summarize the average share of pleasurable minutes on a day and show that in contrast to ...

Household responses to export prices - Evidence from an oil exporting country

NAFTA and drug-related violence in Mexico

AbstractIn this paper, we study the consequences of the NAFTA introduction on illicit drug trafficking from Mexico to the US. We argue that NAFTA's open border policy reduced average detection rates of illegal drug trafficking from Mexico into the US along their national common border, which increased potential rents for all drug-trafficking organizations, and ultimately led to increased...

Educational Selectivity and Immigrants’ Labour Market Performance in Europe

This article depicts the selectivity profiles of first-generation immigrants of multiple origins in 18 European destinations and investigates whether educational selectivity is relevant to their labour market performance. The theoretical account starts from the premise that the relative position individuals occupy in the educational distribution of their origin country represents—frequently unmeasured—characteristics ...

Einkommen und Kreditschulden privater Haushalte

Die wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen der Coronapandemie haben im Jahr 2020 zu einem deutlichen Rückgang des realen BIP in Deutschland geführt. Für Erwerbstätige führte die Krise zu Arbeitsplatzverlusten, Einkommensverlusten – teilweise kompensiert durch Kurzarbeitergeld – und Rückgängen beim Einkommen aus Selbstständigkeit. Während sich die Einkommensseite für die privaten Haushalte damit schwach bis ...

Does Green Public Procurement Trigger Environmental Innovations?

Green public procurement has gained high political priority and is argued to be an effective demand-side policy to trigger environmental innovations. However, the empirical evidence on its innovation impact is limited. We construct a novel firm-level dataset to investigate the effect of winning public procurement tenders with additional environmental award criteria on firms’ introduction of environmental ...

Measurement Equivalence in Probability and Nonprobability Online Panels

Nonprobability online panels are commonly used in the social sciences as a fast and inexpensive way of collecting data in contrast to more expensive probability-based panels. Given their ubiquitous use in social science research, a great deal of research is being undertaken to assess the properties of nonprobability panels relative to probability ones. Much of this research focuses on selection bias, ...

Mentoring as a Grassroots Effort for Integrating Refugees – Evidence from a Randomised Field Experiment

About 80 million people were displaced worldwide at the end of 2020. To support this highly vulnerable group, in recent years, local bottom-up initiatives proliferated to support refugee integration in hosting communities. This study examines a network intervention for refugees in collaboration with a social start-up whose mission is to match refugees and local volunteers to form friendships. We apply ...

Geflüchtete in Deutschland fühlten sich in der Corona-Pandemie stärker diskriminiert als zuvor

Wahrgenommene Benachteiligung hat besonders bei der Arbeitssuche und in Bildungseinrichtungen zugenommen – Integrationsmaßnahmen, die durch Pandemie unterbrochen oder eingestellt wurden, sollten schnellstmöglich wieder aufgenommen werden Geflüchtete, die in den Jahren 2013 bis 2016 nach Deutschland gekommen sind, fühlten sich im ersten Jahr der Corona-Pandemie diskriminierter ...