Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Data Sharing as a Social Dilemma: Influence of the Researcher's Personality

It is widely acknowledged that data sharing has great potential for scientific progress. However, so far making data available has little impact on a researcher’s reputation. Thus, data sharing can be conceptualized as a social dilemma. In the presented study we investigated the influence of the researcher's personality within the social dilemma of data sharing. The theoretical background was ...

Der Paritätische Teilhabebericht 2019: Ältere Menschen mit Beeinträchtigungen

Das von der Aktion Mensch Stiftung geförderte Modellprojekt des Paritätischen „Teilhabeforschung – Inklusion wirksam gestalten“ will die Teilhabeforschung in Deutschland ausbauen, weiterentwickeln und eine umfassende Verbesserung des Wissens über die Lebenssituation von Menschen mit Beeinträchtigungen erreichen.

Konzept für ein wirtschaftliches System periodischer regionaler Preisindizes

Mehr Wirtschaftsstatistik in der Statistikausbildung für Volks- und Betriebswirte

Wir wollen mit diesem Memorandum zu einer Diskussion über die Lehre im Fach Statistik aufrufen und beginnen deshalb mit dem Status quo, den wir für im höchstem Maße unbefriedigend halten. In Teil 2 rufen wir die Lehrenden auf, ihr Verständnis des Faches zu überdenken, was uns nicht nur im Interesse der Berufsaussichten der Lernenden, sondern auch des Ansehens der "Statistik" als Fach geboten ...

Undoing Gender with Institutions. Lessons from the German Division and Reunification

Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR’s gender-equal institutions created a culture that has undone the male breadwinner norm and its consequences. Since reunification, East Germany still differs from West Germany not only by a higher female contribution to household income, but also because East German women can earn more than their husbands without having ...

Math, Girls and Socialism

This paper argues that the socialist episode in East Germany, which constituted a radical experiment in gender equality in the labor market and other instances, has left persistent tracks on gender norms. We focus on one of the most resilient and pervasive gender gaps in modern societies: mathematics. Using the German division as a natural experiment, we show that the underperformance of girls in math ...

Attrition of Households and Individuals in Panel Surveys

Attrition is mostly caused by not contacted or refusing sample members. On one hand it is well-known that reasons to attrite due to non-contact are different from those that are due to refusal. On the other hand does non-contact most probably affect household attrition, while refusal can be effective on both households and individuals. In this article, attrition on both the household and (conditional ...

The working class left behind? The class gap in life satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland over the last decades

The 1990s and 2000s were a gloomy period for Germany’s working class, hit by mass unemployment, welfare retrenchment and wage stagnation. We examine whether the growing economic disparity between the top and the bottom of Germany’s class structure was accompanied by a widening class gap in life satisfaction. We analyse whether there is a social class gradient in life satisfaction and whether, over ...

Cross-National Estimates of the Intergenerational Mobility in Earnings

This paper examines the similarity in the association between earnings of sons and fathers in Germany and the United States. It relaxes the log-linear functional form imposed in most studies of the intergenerational earnings association. Theory implies the relationship between earnings of fathers and sons could be nonlinear, especially at the tails of the distribution of earnings of fathers. When a ...

The promise of cross-national research