Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Gender Differences in Professional Employment

Occupational sex segregation is a persistent source of social inequalities. The increasing participation of women in tertiary education and rising female employment rates, however, have given hope that gender inequalities will decline as a result of growing female opportunities for high skill employment in the service sector, e.g. the professions. This paper asks whether such optimistic accounts are ...

Editorial - SOEP 2010: The 9th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference

Formal and Informal Social Capital in Germany: The Role of Institutions and Ethnic Diversity

Evidence for the often-posited negative relation between ethnic diversity and various measures of social capital is burdened by difficulties measuring the levels of aggregation at which the indicators operate, the common use of cross-sectional data, and by the common omission of macro-level variables that plausibly confound the relation between ethnic diversity and social capital. To overcome these ...

Child-targeted tax-benefit reform in Spain in a European context: a microsimulation analysis using EUROMOD

Alternative Tax-benefit Strategies to Support Children in the European Union - Recent Reforms in Austria, Spain and the UK

A Basic Income for Europe's Children

A Guaranteed Income for Europe's Children?

Job satisfaction and quits

Long work hours of mothers and fathers are linked to increased risk for overweight and obesity among preschool children: longitudinal evidence from Germany

Background Most existing studies on maternal employment and childhood overweight/obesity are from the USA. They are predominantly cross-sectional and show a consistent linear association between the two. Less is known about the joint impact of fathers’ and mothers’ work hours on childhood overweight and obesity.Objectives To examine the impact of maternal and paternal work hours on overweight/obesity ...

Fathers’ Commute to Work and Children’s Social and Emotional Well-Being in Germany

Using the German Socio-Economic Panel study, we addressed the main question: Is fathers’ commute to work associated with increases in child social and emotional well-being as measured in Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaires? If so, would this association be mediated by reduced time spent with children or moderated by change in family income due to commuting? The findings show that fathers’ daily ...