Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Job satisfaction declines before retirement in Germany

Job satisfaction has been found to increase with age. However, we still have a very limited understanding of how job satisfaction changes as people approach retirement. This is important as the years before retirement present specific challenges for older workers. We employed a time-to-retirement approach to investigate (i) mean levels of change in job satisfaction in the decade before retirement, ...

The Causal Impact of Gender Norms on Mothers' Employment Attitudes and Expectations

This field experiment investigates the causal impact of mothers' perceptions of gender norms on their employment attitudes and labor-supply expectations. We provide mothers of young children in Germany with information about the prevailing gender norm regarding maternal employment in their city. At baseline, over 70% of mothers incorrectly perceive this gender norm as too conservative. Our randomized ...

Wohneigentumsdynamik in Deutschland: Generation Miete als Folge des Immobilienbooms?

Mit dem Zensus 2022 liegen erstmals seit 2011 wieder verlässliche regionale Daten zum Wohneigentum in Deutschland vor. Der Zeitraum zwischen den beiden Zensuserhebungen entspricht nahezu deckungsgleich dem Immobilienmarktboom der 2010er-Jahre in Deutschland. Dies nutzt die vorliegende Studie, um anhand der Zensusdaten (ergänzt durch weitere Regionaldaten wie Preise, wirtschaftliche und demografische ...

„Das ist, wenn die Menschen sich sicher fühlen“. Fachkräftesicherung und Willkommenskultur in Berlin - mit Einblicken in die Branchen Pflege, Gastronomie und Logistik

Schwarzarbeit in Deutschland: bisherige Erkenntnisse und neue Befunde

Schwarzarbeit ist ein Teilbereich der Schattenwirtschaft und umfasst die Erbringung von Dienst- oder Werkleistungen unter Umgehung von steuer- und sozialversicherungsrechtlichen Pflichten beziehungsweise unter Missachtung gewerberechtlicher Vorgaben. Sie wird von Organisationen oder Individuen angeboten und von beiden Akteursgruppen in ihrer Eigenschaft als Konsument:innen auch nachgefragt. Im Jahr ...

Would a four-day-week improve individual well-being? Evidence on working hours and life satisfaction from German panel data

The four-day-week receives growing attention by companies, researchers, and governments. A core premise of the concept is that reducing working hours increases individual well-being. While trials in public and private organisations support this claim, empirical studies on the relationship between working hours and well-being do not offer conclusive evidence. This study contributes to the academic literature ...

Gesundheitliche Ungleichheit (Kap. 8.2)

Perceived Economic Uncertainty and Fertility - Evidence from a Labor Market Reform

Empirical evidence on the causal effect of perceived economic uncertainty (PEU) on fertility is sparse and results are ambiguous. To provide causal evidence on the effect of PEU on fertility, we exploit exogenous variation in PEU induced by the announcement of a major German unemployment benefit reform in an instrumental variable approach. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate ...

“Like two peas in a pod?” Homogamous personalities, education, and union dissolution

This paper examines the association between the level of similarity in the “Big Five” personality traits of the partners in different-sex couples and their risk of union dissolution. Prior research has mainly focused on homogamy in socio-economic, demographic, and cultural characteristics, such as age, education, employment, and religion. The few studies on the effects of homogamy in the personalities ...

Drivers of Loneliness among Older Refugees

Although older refugees can be seen as particularly vulnerable to social isolation and loneliness, they are often overlooked by ageing and migration scholars. This article addresses this research gap by identifying and examining potential drivers of loneliness among older refugees. The study analysed data from the first two waves of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees, focusing on 958 individuals ...