From April to June 2020, the SOEP conducted the survey “The Spread of the Coronavirus in Germany: Socio-Economic Factors and Consequences” (SOEP-CoV) in cooperation with the University of Bielefeld and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (for a description of the methodology in German, see: https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/view/7748 ). For SOEP-CoV, ...
Das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP) ist die größte und am längsten laufende Wiederholungsbefragung zur sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Lage in Deutschland, für die jedes Jahr etwa 30.000 Menschen in 15.000 Haushalten befragt werden. Die Befragungsdaten werden von Wissenschaftler*innen aus der ganzen Welt genutzt. Im Projekt SOEP-Transfer (wissenschaftlicher Projektname: Austausch von Wissen und...
The Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) is the largest and longest-running longitudinal survey of households in Germany. Every year as part of the annual SOEP survey, around 30,000 individuals in 15,000 households provide comprehensive data on their social and economic conditions. The survey data are used by researchers worldwide. The project SOEP-Transfer (scientific project name: “Sharing knowledge and...
Concerns about inequality and questions of social justice and cohesion have re-entered the public arena and animate debate, provoked by the recent rapid increases in cross-sectional inequality. While much has been learnt from the literature on inequality, Deaton (2015) has outlined in his Nobel lecture several imperatives that are key to understanding inequalities and formulating welfare-enhancing...
We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the government-mandated measures to contain its spread, affected the self-employed relative to employed individuals in Germany and, secondly, to what extent the female self-employed were more strongly hit than their male counterparts. For our analysis, we use representative, real-time survey data where respondents are asked about ...
Die Wiedervereinigung war nie nur eine einseitige Integration. Auch die Menschen im Westen haben profitiert und sich angepasst – zum Beispiel beim Thema Familie. 30 Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung fragen sich viele, wie die vergangenen drei Jahrzehnte Ostdeutschland und die Ostdeutschen verändert haben. Sie haben den Menschen in Ostdeutschland Freiheit gebracht und auch ihr ...
We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children’s labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated families. Empirical results based on Austrian administrative data show a significant negative impact on labor market activities of children. This effect is more pronounced ...
