Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Ukrainische Geflüchtete brauchen schnell Planungssicherheit in Deutschland: Interview

Die Gewerkschaften konnten für die Beschäftigten höhere Löhne erzielen: Interview

Intergenerational Health Mobility in Germany

We describe the joint permanent health distribution of parents and children in Germany using 25 years of data from the Socio-Economic Panel. We derive three main results: First, a ten percentile increase in parental permanent health is associated with a 2.3 percentile increase in their child’s health. Second, employing our anchoring method, we find that a percentile point increase in permanent health ...

Menschen mit höheren Einkommen sind glücklicher: Interview

Die psychische Gesundheit in Deutschland hat sich ähnlich wie die Wirtschaft entwickelt: Interview

The Role of Polygenic Indices in Inequality of Opportunity

Equality of opportunity is a principle of social justice, although there are different conceptions of it. We distinguish between fair and luck egalitarian equality of opportunity. Both conceptions consider to be unfair inequalities in life chances resulting from ascribed characteristics such as social origin and sex. They differ, however, in that fair equality of opportunity considers it fair when ...

It’s the routine, stupid! (Or is it?)

This study investigates the relationship between workplace tasks and participation in work-related continuing training in Germany between 1986 and 1989. This was a period of significant social change commonly associated with “deindustrialization”. Based on a task-based approach and the assumption of routine-biased technological change it is assumed that the routine nature of work tasks correlates with ...

Regional COVID-19 measures and effects on subjective well-being in Germany: observing trends over time with data from a large population survey

Background COVID-19 measures in Germany varied during the pandemic, and it seems natural that in addition to factors such as incidence, health system capacity, etc., these interventions and their social and economic consequences had an impact on the evolution of the population’s well-being. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there has been a suspicion that the health burden would fall mainly on population ...

Unemployment’s Life-Satisfaction Cost and Loneliness

Unemployment consistently lowers life satisfaction on average, yet the individual impact of job loss varies significantly. The underlying factors driving this heterogeneity remain a subject of ongoing research. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we demonstrate a compelling link between unemployment and loneliness, suggesting that a substantial portion of unemployment’s detrimental impact ...

Fremd- und zweisprachige Kinder in Deutschland: Eine Auswertung des Mikrozensus

Einer eigenen Auswertung des Mikrozensus zufolge lebten im Jahr 2021 rund 801.000 Minderjährige in Deutschland, die zu Hause kein Deutsch sprachen. Das sind 5,8 Prozent aller Kinder und Jugendlichen. Deutsch und eine Fremdsprache sprachen 3,04 Millionen Minderjährige oder 21,9 Prozent. Dabei geht die Fremd- und Zweisprachigkeit häufig mit weiteren Risikofaktoren für eine erfolgreiche Bildungslaufbahn ...