Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Number of Siblings and Educational Choices of Immigrant Children: Evidence from First- and Second-Generation Immigrants

We document the educational integration of immigrant children in France and Germany with a focus on the link between family size and educational decisions and distinguishing particularly between first- and second-generation immigrants and between source country groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher education track attendance ...

Lifestyles - a relevant segmentation tool for the analysis of the socio-residential organisation?

Do welfare and labour market institutions influence unemployment duration of immigrants? Evidence from 11 European countries

This paper investigates the effect of institutions on the unemployment gap between immigrants and natives in 11 EU-countries. We study whether benefits provide disincentive effects as the job-search theory suggests or rather efficiency gains as alternative theories propose. Further than the existing literature, we study unemployment duration instead of unemployment incidence, we distinguish between ...

Using the Dirichlet Process to Form Clusters of People’s Concerns in the Context of Future Party Identification

Connections between interindividual differences and people’s behavior has been widely researched in various contexts, often by using top-down group comparisons to explain interindividual differences. In contrast, in this study, we apply a bottom-up approach in which we identify meaningful clusters in people’s concerns about various areas of life (e.g., their own health, their financial situation, the ...

Familie im Umbruch. Zur Lage der Familien in der ehemaligen DDR. Studie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Familie und Senioren (Schriftenreihe des BMFuS, Bd. 7)

Wendezeit - Familienzeit. Veränderungen der Situation von Frauen und Familien in den neuen Bundesländern

Die Auswirkungen der Wende auf Frauen und Familien in den neuen Bundesländern

Health Inequalities at Different Stages of the Lifecycle (Dissertation)

This thesis comprises three independent but closely related empirical studies dealing with different aspects of health inequalities at different stages of the life cycle. First, the thesis focuses on children aged 9-12 and explores whether maternal employment is related to the probability of being overweight among these children. Using an instrumental variable strategy, the results indicate that children ...

Sektorale Differenzierung der Erwerbschancen durch den wirtschaftlichen Umbau. Veränderungen im Erwerbssystem der neuen Bundesländer nach der Vereinigung

Individuelle Erwerbschancen in Ostdeutschland - Auswirkungen des wirtschaftsstrukturellen Wandels (Dissertation)