Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Institutionalized Normality and Individual Living Situations. The Non-Take-Up of Old-Age Basic Income Support in Germany

Untersucht wird die Nichtinanspruchnahme der Grundsicherung im Alter in Deutschland mit dem SOEP (2010–2015). Gezeigt wird, dass 6 von 10 keine Leistungen beantragen. Zur Erklärung werden Unterschiede zwischen der individuellen Lebenssituation und institutionellen Normalitätsvorstellungen herangezogen. Die Empirie fokussiert drei Dimensionen: das Zurechtkommen mit schwierigen finanziellen Bedingungen ...

Impact of the EU Blue Card programme on cultural participation and subjective well-being of migrants in Germany

The first aim of this study is to investigate the role of the EU Blue Card programme implemented in 2012 in Germany. In particular, we aim to explore the impact on the participation in cultural activities of first-generation non-European Union (EU) and non-European Economic Area (EEA) migrants, such as attendance to cinema, concerts and theatre. The second aim is to examine the impact of cultural activities ...

The Impact of Anti-Veiling Legislation on Employment Outcomes and Religiosity

Eight different European Union member countries and counting have policies that prevent residents from wearing the hijab, burqa, or niqab in public spaces. The practice of veiling itself has unique implications as a commitment mechanism and socioeconomic signal (Carvahlo, 2013), which suggest that anti-veiling legislation would decrease social integration between religious groups. I study the impacts ...

Educational Assimilation of First-Generation and Second-Generation Immigrants in Germany

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for 1984–2018, we analyze the intergenerational education mobility of immigrants in Germany by identifying the determinants of differences in educational stocks for first- and second-generation immigrants in comparison to individuals without a migration background. Our results show that on average, first-generation immigrants have fewer years of schooling ...

The Effect of Self-Control and Financial Literacy on Impulse Borrowing: Experimental Evidence

This paper examines the effect of reduced self-control on impulsive borrowing in a laboratory experiment. We manipulate self-control using an ego depletion task and show that it is effective. Following the ego depletion task, participants can anonymously buy hot drinks on credit. We find no significant average effects, but find that treated individuals that have low financial literacy are more likely ...

Understanding Refugee Worries in the Integration Process

This article presents policy related results of a data analysis conducted to understand the nature of refugee worries (concerns) during the integration process in Germany. Data comes from the German Socio-Economic Panel study (SOEP), which has a specific data subset collected from refugee population living in Germany. “Uncertainty” is the key concept that explains worry structure of refugees, indicating ...

Heterogene Lebenserwartung: Forschungsprojekt im Auftrag des Sozialverbands VdK Deutschland

Interaktiv: Arbeiter und Migranten wählen links, Spitzenverdiener rechts? Von wegen

Vor 30 Jahren fühlten sich Arbeiter, Migranten oder Stadtbewohner noch mit ganz anderen Parteien verbunden als heute. Auch die Unterschiede zwischen Männern und Frauen werden immer grösser.

Dealing with various flavors of missing data in ex-post survey harmonization and beyond

This dissertation overcomes several missing data problems in ex-post survey harmonization. Although ex-post survey harmonization projects have become more common in the social sciences in recent years, methodological research on this topic is still relatively rare. The dissertation's main body consists of four chapters, each of which presents a study exploring solutions for missing data problems ...

Better together? Regression analysis of complex survey data after ex-post harmonization

An increasing number of researchers pool, harmonize, and analyze survey data from different survey providers for their research questions. They aim to study heterogeneity between groups over a long period or examine smaller subgroups; research questions that can be impossible to answer with a single survey. This combination or pooling of data is known as individual person data (IPD) meta-analysis in ...