Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Personality-related and psychosocial correlates of sick leave days in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings of a representative survey

Background: The aim of our study was to assess the personality-related and psychosocial correlates of sick leave days in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: We used data from a representative online-survey covering the general German adult population (data collection: mid-March 2022). We restricted our sample to full-time employed individuals aged 18 to 64 years (n = 1,342 individuals). ...

Die heikle Phase der Adoleszenz: Alles doof! Warum die Lebenszufriedenheit Jugendlicher steil abfällt

Eine Studie zeigt, dass die Zufriedenheit im Alter von zehn bis 24 Jahren so stark absinkt wie in keiner anderen Phase des Lebens. Forscher suchen nach Gründen.

Wie sich eine demografisch bedingte Schrumpfung des Arbeitsmarkts noch abwenden lässt

Angesichts knapper Arbeitskräfte fällt es Betrieben immer schwerer, offene Stellen zu besetzen. Als Folge des demografischen Wandels ist zu erwarten, dass sich dieser Mangel weiter verschärft. So wird etwa die Zahl der Personen im erwerbsfähigen Alter bis 2035 infolge der Demografie deutlich abnehmen. Es gibt jedoch eine Reihe von Ansätzen, um das gesamtwirtschaftliche Arbeitsvolumen trotz einer stark ...

A New Measure of Wage Risk: Occupation-Specific Evidence for Germany

This study proposes a new measure of wage risk based on estimated probabilities to earn an hourly wage that is below some specific lower quantile of the wage distribution. Using the German SOEP as an information rich data base, we determine wage risks overall and for nine job categories during the period from 1992 until 2015. We find that the low-wage workers in Germany are worse off after the Hartz ...

Health Returns to Education Across the Life Course: Measuring Health in Children and Adolescents in the National Educational Panel Study

Health is an important non-monetary outcome of education surveyed by the National Education Panel Study (NEPS). In addition to its effects in adulthood (see Lettau et al., 2020), the interplay between education and health also plays a role for children and adolescents. For this reason, the NEPS provides longitudinal data on various aspects of health, education, relevant control variables, and mechanisms ...

Non-Standard Employment and Partnership Dissolution: A Comparison of Nonmarital Cohabitations and Marriages

This paper investigates the link between non-standard employment (NSE) and the risk of partnership dissolution, applying event history analysis to data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey for the period 2001–2016. It moves beyond previous studies by (a) considering a broader range of employment types, including fixed-term ...

Political implications of ‘green’ infrastructure in one’s ‘backyard’: the Green Party’s Catch 22?

A clean environment is a public good, with the benefits shared by all. While most individuals can agree on the need to implement green policies, we argue that the cost-benefit calculation is quite different depending on where one lives. Those individuals living in places where green infrastructure is infeasible, such as cities, can advocate for green technologies knowing that the chance of having to ...

Minor and inconsistent differences in Big Five personality traits between vegetarians and vegans

Most research examining individuals who follow different diets has combined vegetarians and vegans into a single group. To investigate whether this consolidation is justified, we analyzed possible differences between vegetarians and vegans for the Big Five personality traits in two studies. In our pre-study, we used data from a German convenience sample of 400 vegetarians and 749 vegans and found that ...

Der digitale Wandel der Wissenschaftskommunikation

Die Mittelschicht im Fokus - Abgrenzung, Entwicklung und Mobilität

Etwa jeder zweite Bundesbürger zählte im Jahr 2018 zur Einkommensmittelschicht im engeren Sinn (i.e.S.). Seit über einer Dekade hat sich dieser Anteil nur unmerklich verändert. Gestiegen sind jedoch die Schwellenwerte, ab denen man zur Einkommensmitte gehört – ein Ausdruck gestiegenen Wohlstands. Während im Jahr 2018 ein Singlehaushalt mit einem monatlichen Nettoeinkommen ab 1.620 Euro zur Mitte i.e.S. ...