Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Why We Should Care About Regional Origins: Educational Selectivity Among Refugees and Labor Migrants in Western Europe

Immigrant selectivity describes the notion that migrants are not a random sample of the population at origin, but differ in certain traits such as educational attainment from individuals who stay behind. In this article, we move away from group-level descriptions of educational selectivity and measure it as an individual's relative position in the age- and gender-specific educational distribution ...

Bildung: Zahl der Privatschulen steigt weiter

Liens sociaux et construction identitaire des enfants de coples mixtes: Une étude comparée en France, en Allemagne et au Royaume-Uni (Dissertation)

Millionen aus der Mittelschicht gerutscht

So gut sind in Deutschland die Chancen, reich und klug zu werden

Das Erwerbsverhalten verheirateter Frauen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Eine mikroökonometrische Untersuchung

The Impact of Young Children on Women’s Labour Supply: A Reassessment of Institutional Effects in Europe

The proportion of women who withdraw from paid employment when they have children differs considerably among the countries of the European Union (EU), and the variation has mostly been attributed to institutional factors. In this study, we reassess the institutional explanation, because earlier supportive evidence is threatened by two alternative macro-level explanations: the influence of the economic ...

Unemployment Duration and Noncognitive Skills

This paper focuses on the role of noncognitive skills on the success of unemployed workers finding a job. We argue that a worker's job search intensity not only relies on the conventional determinants discussed in the job search literature but is decisively driven by her noncognitive skills which rejected in her propensity to motivate and control herself while searching for a job. Moreover, personality ...

Unemployment duration and personality

This paper focuses on the role personality traits play in determining individual unemployment duration. We argue that a worker’s job search intensity is decisively driven by her personality traits, reflected in her propensity to motivate and control herself while searching for a job. Moreover, personality traits, in as far as they can be signaled to a potential employer, may also enhance the probability ...

Social Structure and the Paradox of the Contented Female Worker: How Occupational Gender Segregation Biases Justice Perceptions of Wages

This article provides a structural explanation for the paradox of the contented female worker. Although they are generally aware that they earn less than men, women usually perceive their wages as more just. This article argues that men and women do not differ in how they perceive their wages, yet the gendered segregation of the labor market will constrain the availability of preferred same-gender ...