Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Entwicklung der Lebensverhältnisse im Alter

Die Entwicklung der Lebensverhältnisse und der Teilhabe der Älteren am gesellschaftlichen Wohlstand nimmt eine zentrale Rolle in der Gerechtigkeitsdebatte ein. Eine deskriptive Analyse der Lebensverhältnisse in Deutschland auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels zeigt, dass sich seit Mitte der 1980er Jahre die relative Einkommensposition Älterer deutlich verbessert hat. Über die vergangenen drei Jahrzehnte ...

(Why) are immigrants unhappy?

Recent studies suggest that migrants may be less satisfied with their ‘new’ lives than members of the host population and worry that this may be driven by cultural factors, such as feelings of not belonging. Motivated by this concern, this paper analyses the life satisfaction of immigrants once settled in the host country. We rely on the German Socio-Economic Panel’s immigrant sample for the years ...

An Empirical Note on Religiosity and Social Trust using German Survey Data

In this empirical research note, we use a large scale German household survey data set to analyze the correlation between religiosity and social trust. Religiosity takes into account religious affiliations (Catholic, Protestant, other Christian, Muslim/Islam, other religions, none) and the frequency of church attendance. In order to measure social trust, we use three outcome variables (willingness ...

Reservation Wages and the Wage Flexibility Puzzle

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search model – even if wages are only occasionally renegotiated. We argue that one source of the wage flexibility puzzles is plausibly the model for the determination of reservation wages, and consider an alternative ...

Home Ownership and Monetary Policy Transmission

We present empirical evidence on the heterogeneity in monetary policy transmission across countries with different home ownership rates. We use household-level data together with shocks to the policy rate identified from high-frequency data. We find that housing tenure reacts more strongly to unexpected changes in the policy rate in Germany and Switzerland - the OECD countries with the lowest home ...

A Study of Employment Careers of Immigrants in Germany

Last Hired, First Fired? The Unemployment Dynamics of Male Immigrants in Germany

Labour market entry, early employment careers, and prospects for further education and training among the low educated youth in Europe

Armut als Konstruktion. Materielle Benachteiligung von Kindern variiert stark - je nach Berechnungsart

The importance of children and their wellbeing for the future of all societies everywhere meets with approval. The investigation of material deprivation of children in politics, the media and society is of enormous importance. However, due to different calculation methods child poverty figures are often far from being comparable. A detailed look at the origin and calculation of these figures is absolutely ...

Armut von Kindern im Lebensverlauf. Ursachen und Folgen für das subjektive Wohlbefinden