Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Zweidrittelgesellschaft oder Risikogesellschaft? Zur gesellschaftlichen Verortung der "neuen Armut" in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Dynamik von Armut

Time and Poverty in Western Welfare States. United Germany in Perspective

Migrationshintergrund und Gleichberechtigung am deutschen Arbeitsmarkt (Master thesis)

Family Policies in Germany

This chapter reviews the current state of German family policy with a special focus on rights and obligations. It identifies the peculiarities of family policies in the formerly socialist East and in the conservative-familist West. German unification merged two contrasting models of family policy: the East German dual-earner model and the West German male breadwinner model. While family policy in East ...

No Effect of Birth Order on Adult Risk Taking

Does birth order shape people’s propensity to take risks? Evidence is mixed. We used a three-pronged approach to investigate birth-order effects on risk taking. First, we examined the propensity to take risks as measured by a self-report questionnaire administered in the German Socio-Economic Panel, one of the largest and most comprehensive household surveys. Second, we drew on data from the Basel–Berlin ...

Wohlbefinden und Leistung

Zur Glücksforschung tragen Volkswirte und Soziologen, Betriebswirte und Psychologen unterschiedliche Aspekte bei – und die Personaler profitieren von den Ergebnissen.

Zuwendung zählt

Neben Bildung und Einkommen, beruflichem Status und Erwerbsstatus der Eltern spielt, das legt eine US-Studie nahe, auch das Vorbild berufstätiger Mütter eine Rolle.

The causal effect of age at migration on youth educational attainment

We investigate the causal effect of age at migration on subsequent educational attainment in the destination country. To identify the causal effect we compare the educational attainment of siblings at age 21, exploiting the fact that they typically migrate at different ages within a given family. We consider several education outcomes conditional on family fixed effects. We take advantage of long running ...

The course of subjective sleep quality in middle and old adulthood and its relation to physical health

Objective: Older adults more often complain about sleep disturbances compared to younger adults. However, it is not clear whether there is still a decline of sleep quality after age 60 and whether changes in sleep quality in old age are mere reflections of impaired physical health or whether they represent a normative age dependent development.Method: Subjective sleep quality and perceived physical ...