Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Gastbeitrag zum Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht: Multimilliardär vs. Hartz-IV-Empfänger: Regierung verschleiert ein deutsches Mega-Problem

Die Covid-19-Pandemie hat große Auswirkungen auf die Vermögensverhältnisse. Der 6. Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht der Bundesregierung dokumentiert diese soziale Ungleichheit - jedoch wird ein wichtiger Aspekt verschwiegen. Einige wenige besitzen fast alles. Und viele besitzen wenig.

Quantifying the Economic, Linguistic, and Social Benefits for Refugees Participating in a Federal German Integration Course

In 2005, the German government introduced various integration courses in order to better support migrants and refugees. Since 2010, the refugee population in Germany has exponentially increased, particularly after Chancellor Merkel’s 2015 decision to admit more than one million refugees. This study evaluates the efficacy of these integration courses by examining the extent to which participation in ...

Mental Health over the Life Course: Evidence for a U-Shape?

We aim to identify the age-profile of mental health while introducing minimal bias to reach identification. Using mental health data from the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) we apply first difference estimation to derive an unbiased estimate of the second derivative of the age effect as well as an estimate up to a linear period trend of the first derivative. Next, we use a battery of estimators ...

Education as a Positional Good? Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

People care about their relative standing in society and therefore compare themselves to relevant others. Empirical findings suggest that there are concerns for relative standing for different goods and life domains such as income, cars, attractiveness, and supervisor’s praise. Even education has been mentioned as having a (partially) positional character. However, there has been only small consideration ...

Refugees’ Mental Health during the Coronavirus Pandemic: Psychological Distress and Continued Loneliness

Many people are suffering from the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. Refugees, however, belong to one of the underpriviliged groups in many areas of society. They are more likely than average to live in overcrowded living quarters such as community housing and are thus exposed to a higher risk of infection. At the same time, even before the pandemic, they were more likely than average to experience ...

Are temporary jobs stepping stones or dead ends? A systematic review of the literature

We present a meta-analysis on the debate about the "stepping stone vs. dead end" hypothesis related to the causal effect of temporary jobs on future labour market performances. We select academic papers published on international peer-reviewed journals from 1990 until 2021. Among 78 observations from 64 articles, 32% support the hypothesis according to which temporary contracts are a port ...

Value Differences between Refugees and German Citizens: Insights from a Representative Survey

The political debate over the inclusion of refugees frequently revolves around cultural differences, in particular differences pertaining to values, which are suspected to hamper social integration. Sociological accounts of values in principle warrant the assumption that different values promote conflict over sensitive social issues. However, only little is known about the actual values of refugees ...

Die Folgen der Corona-Krise für die Anwartschaften an die gesetzliche Rentenversicherung

Die Pandemie wirkt sich stark auf den Arbeitsmarkt aus. Wir untersuchen anhand eines Simulationsmodell die Folgen der Krise für die Rentenanwartschaften der älteren Erwerbsbevölkerung. Welche langfristige Bedeutung hat die soziale Absicherung während der Krise für die Alterseinkünfte? Dafür simulieren wir zwei Szenarien: ein Szenario ohne Krise und ein Szenario mit dem aktuellen Wirtschaftseinbruch. ...

Der Niedriglohnsektor in Deutschland: Falle oder Sprungbrett für Beschäftigte?

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