Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Wohnkosten-Studie: Die Wahrheit über die steigenden Mieten in Deutschland

Ökonomen haben berechnet, dass der Anteil der Einkommen, der für Miete ausgegeben wird, seit Jahren fast gleich hoch ist. Dieses Ergebnis dürfte bei vielen Normalverdienern für Stirnrunzeln sorgen. Mit ihrem Gefühl haben sie nicht ganz unrecht.

Do Adult Men and Women in Same-Sex Relationships Have Weaker Ties to Their Parents?

Using a national sample of people in same-sex relationships (N = 843) and different-sex relationships (N = 510) in the Netherlands, we examine the frequently discussed but infrequently tested hypothesis of weaker intergenerational ties between parents and their adult daughters and sons in same-sex relationships. We also test hypotheses linking the strength of these ties to gender differences and the ...

Es gibt immer noch viel Raum, um die gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz für LGBTQI*-Menschen zu verbessern: Interview

Die Deutschen sind zufrieden mit dem Krisenmanagement der Politik

Die Zustimmungswerte für die Bundesregierung und die Landesregierungen sind in der Corona-Krise gestiegen. Die Corona-Pandemie ist eine Chance für die Demokratie.

Integration of Refugee Children and Adolescents In and Out of School: Evidence of Success but Still Room for Improvement

Germany has seen the arrival of a large number of displaced children and adolescents in recent years. Integration is vital for their lives today and in the future. Key indicators of successful integration are a sense of belonging to school, participation in extracurricular activities, both within school and outside it, and social contacts. The present report examines these indicators based on data ...

The Well-Being Benefits of Person-Culture Match Are Contingent on Basic Personality Traits

People enjoy well-being benefits if their personal characteristics match those of their culture. This person-culture match effect is integral to many psychological theories and—as a driver of migration—carries much societal relevance. But do people differ in the degree to which person-culture match confers well-being benefits? In the first-ever empirical test of that question, we examined whether the ...

Geschlechterrollen: Comeback der Kernfamilie: Wie Corona die Aufteilung von Sorgearbeit verändert

Industrial Robots, Workers’ Safety, and Health

This study explores the relationship between the adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries. Using establishment-level data on injuries, we find that a one standard deviation increase in our commuting zone-level measure of robot exposure reduces work-related annual injury rates by approximately 1.2 cases per 100 workers. US commuting zones more exposed to robot penetration experience a significant ...

Beschäftigte in Minijobs sind VerliererInnen der coronabedingten Rezession

Die Corona-Krise hat für die geringfügig Beschäftigten in Deutschland deutliche Folgen: Um 850 000 oder zwölf Prozent lag die Zahl der MinijoberInnen im Juni 2020 niedriger als ein Jahr zuvor. Die sozialversicherungspflichtige Beschäftigung ist im Vergleich um lediglich 0,2 Prozent gesunken. Ein entscheidender Unterschied: MinijobberInnen haben keinen Anspruch auf Kurzarbeitergeld. Zudem haben viele ...

Real Incomes Increasing, Low-Income Rate Decreasing in Individual Age Groups

The number of employed persons in Germany has grown by over five million since 2000, in part due to an increase in immigration. This development is reflected in private household income, which has increased by 12 percent over the same period. Since 2013, all income groups have been benefiting from this increase and in 2015, the lowest income decile began benefiting as well. Disposable income inequality ...