Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Public childcare provision and employment participation of East and West German mothers with different educational backgrounds

By focusing on a period of a major public childcare expansion in Germany, this study investigates whether higher levels of childcare coverage for under-threes have been positively associated with employment among mothers with different educational backgrounds. Both standard economic labour theories and sociological theories presume that the effect of public childcare provision varies with mothers’ ...

Intergenerational educational mobility and health satisfaction across the life course: Does the long arm of childhood conditions only become visible later in life?

The contemporaneous association of socioeconomic status (SES) with health is well-established, whereas much less is known about the health-related effects of social mobility (i.e., movements across different SES). This study investigates the impact of SES in childhood and adulthood on health satisfaction across the life course. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and education as ...

Surveying Persons in Same-Sex Relationships in a Probabilistic Way : An Example from the Netherlands

In the last decade, the call for improved estimates of lesbians, gay men and bisexual (LGB) populations has grown steadily. This is related to the increasing visibility of same-sex unions and the rapidly evolving changes in the legal and normative institutional frameworks regarding same-sex relationships in Western countries. The aim of this article is to present the sampling strategy and discuss the ...

It Deepens Like a Coastal Shelf: Educational Mobility and Social Capital in Germany

The prospects for the next generation—whether young people, regardless of their backgrounds, have equal chances of social success—pose a momentous problem for modern societies. Inequality of opportunity, often reflected by social immobility, is a threat to the egalitarian promise and the stability of your society. This work argues that social capital transmission plays an important role for the chances ...

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Vermögensverteilung: Bemerkenswerte Stabilität

In öffentlichen Debatten wird oft behauptet, dass die Vermögensungleichheit in Deutschland permanent zunehme. Eine Analyse der Entwicklung der Nettovermögensverteilung auf Basis unterschiedlicher Mikrodatensätze zeigt jedoch, dass das Niveau der Vermögensungleichheit seit Beginn der 2000er Jahre nahezu konstant ist und in den letzten Jahren eher sinkt als steigt.

A cross-cultural comparison of the ultrabrief mental health screeners PHQ-4 and SF-12 in Germany

The testing of measurement invariance (MI) across different cultural backgrounds for short screeners of mental health has been mostly neglected. Therefore, we examined MI in the most common mental health screeners worldwide used to assess the psychological indicators of health among migrants and refugees: the Short-Form-12 Health Survey (SF-12) for health-related quality of life and the Patient Health ...

Sustained Effects of Flexible Working Time Arrangements on Subjective Well-Being

The article addressed the impact of a transition to two flexible working time arrangements, employee- and employer-oriented, on subjective well-being (measured by job satisfaction and satisfaction with leisure time) from a longitudinal perspective. The study investigated which of three patterns of well-being, i.e., stability, recovery, or chronic strain/long-term improvement, are associated with these ...

Accentro-IW Wohnkostenreport 2019: Eine Analyse von Mieten und Wohnnutzerkosten für 401 Kreise

Der Wohnnutzerkostenansatz erlaubt einen Vergleich der Mietkosten und der regelmäßig anfallenden Kosten, die ein Wohneigentümer aufbringen muss. Dieser Ansatz wird genutzt, um die relative Vorteilhaftigkeit von Wohneigentum gegenüber Mieten zu bestimmen.

Mieten, Modernisierungen und Mieterstruktur - Vermietergruppen in Großstädten im Vergleich: Eine Analyse auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels

Angesichts stetig steigender Mieten in den Großstädten stehen zunehmend Vermieter im Fokus öffentlicher und politischer Diskussionen. Selbst eine Enteignung großer privater Wohnungsgesellschaften in Berlin wird mittlerweile von einer Bürgerinitiative gefordert. Durch die Überführung der Unternehmen in staatliches Eigentum erwarten sich die Initiatoren geringere Mietpreisdynamiken und weniger kostentreibende ...