Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Feeling equal before the law? The impact of access to citizenship and legal status on perceived discrimination

In this study, we contribute to the literature about the effects of improving access to citizenship on integration outcomes. Hereby, we exploit exogenous variation from two citizenship reforms in Germany to estimate the effects of residency requirements on perceived discrimination, which is strongly linked to individual well-being, sense of belonging, and migration desires and decisions. We find that ...

Income or leisure? On the hidden benefits of (un)employment

Do unemployed people benefit from more free time, while consumption is the sole motive for employed people to accept a life with less available time? Does this apply equally to men and women? To inform ongoing policy debates on how to address the problem of unemployment, we provide a comprehensive discussion of the traditionally assumed trade-off between income and leisure in labor supply decisions, ...

Pre-Trained Nonresponse Prediction in Panel Surveys with Machine Learning

While predictive modeling for unit nonresponse in panel surveys has been explored in variouscontexts, it is still under-researched how practitioners can best adopt these techniques. Currently, practitioners need to wait until they accumulate enough data in their panel to train and evaluate their own modeling options. This paper presents a novel “cross-training” technique in which we show that the indicators ...

German dialect regions as spatial units: a data analysis instrument

Although Standard German is the official language and the language of the majority in Germany, regional varieties of German are prominent in the country. German dialects show a regional distribution that does not coincide with administrative borders. In this article, we present an instrument that we created for analyzing linguistic survey data regionally. This instrument can also be used for analyzing ...

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Intergenerational Class Mobility of Labour Market Entrants in Germany and the UK since the 1950s

This study examines over-time trends in intergenerational class mobility based on cohorts of labour market entrants in Germany and the UK since the 1950s. We calculate absolute and relative mobility rates, separately for men and women, using the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984–2016), the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2009–2016), and the UK Labour Force Survey (2014–2017). Regarding absolute mobility, ...

Lebenszufriedenheit in den Braunkohlerevieren: Zwischen individuellem Wohlbefinden und kollektiven Sorgen

Out for good: Transitory and persistent labor market effects of heterogeneous health shocks

We propose a novel method to detect and disentangle moderate and severe health shocks in a general population survey based on a data-driven classification of sickness absences and hospitalizations. Both types of shocks are widespread with an annual incidence of about 1.7%, which rises steeply with age. We estimate the effects of both shocks on labor market outcomes and find that severe shocks have ...

Polygenic Associations With Educational Attainment in East Versus West Germany: Differences Emerge After Reunification

Using a DNA-based polygenic index, we explored geographical and historical differences in polygenic associations with educational attainment in East and West Germany around the time of reunification. This index was derived from a prior genome-wide association study on educational attainment in democratic countries. In 1,930 individuals aged 25 to 85 years from the SOEP-G[ene] cohort, the magnitude ...

Publishing Fine-Grained Standardized Metadata – Lessons Learned from Three Research Data Centers

FAIRness of research data largely depends on the availability of rich and standardized metadata. While such metadata is commonly available at the study level, fine-grained metadata, especially for tabular scientific data, is often lacking (Wenzig/Han 2024). In a project funded by KonsortSWD-NFDI4Society, three research data centers (SOEP, LIfBi, and DZHW) investigate what is required to convert existing ...