Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Gender and Wage Gap: Cross-Country Analysis

Although women’s educational achievement and human capital have increased, the wage gap persists both in Germany and Turkey. Also, there are many differences in terms of labor market policies for both countries. This study will discuss the current situation within the framework of various wage gap theories and estimate the relationship between an extensive range of human capital, and economic and social ...

Sex and gender effects on incidence of migraine and stroke: a longitudinal observational study based on the german socio-economic panel

Sex and gender both affect health outcomes, often in complex ways that intertwine biological and social influences. While researchers have criticized the conflation of sex and gender in quantitative studies, it remains a challenge to analytically disentangle them. We investigated an approach to conceptualize sex and gender as interrelated constructs embedded within a specific social context and estimate ...

The Impact of Sandwich Care on Employment and Well-Being in Germany

The provision of informal care has received a lot of attention during the past few decades. In the case of recurring parental care needs, adults may find themselves confronted with the task of juggling informal care for their parents and care for their children at the same time. These carers are typically called sandwich carers. Using data from the 2001–2019 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel, ...

On Good Deeds and the Reproduction of Social Inequality: An Empirical Study on Social Class and Volunteering in Germany

This study re-examines volunteering through Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical framework, arguing that in Germany and other western countries, volunteering functions as a means of accumulating symbolic capital (i.e. social recognition and status). Individuals from higher social classes are increasingly investing in this field, thereby restricting access for those from lower classes. Using data from the ...

Angry together or agitated alone? The role of social capital in the geographies of discontent

Research on the spatial variation in ‘populist’ and ‘anti-establishment’ voting focuses on the role of ‘left behind places’, where these parties are particularly successful in regions that have been left behind economically or culturally. Applying this perspective to the German case, this paper examines the spatial distribution of ‘populist’ and ‘anti-establishment’ voting. Using micro-data from the ...

Educational qualifications, recognition, training aspirations and educational attainment

Mitgebrachte Bildungsabschlüsse, Anerkennung, Ausbildungsaspirationen und Bildungserwerb

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