Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Einstellungen zu Armut, Reichtum und Verteilung in sozialen Lagen in Deutschland

Zentrales Ziel des Forschungsberichts ist es, einen Einblick in die subjektive Wahrnehmung von Armut und Reichtum sowie der eigenen Lebenssituation der Bundesbürgerinnen und Bundesbürger zu ermöglichen. Weiterhin wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob sich diese Wahrnehmungen und Bewertungen zwischen sozialen Lagen in Deutschland unterscheiden. Dabei liegt der zentrale Fokus der Untersuchung auf dem Vergleich ...

Mitigating adverse social and health impacts of COVID-19 with applied arts

In this project, we analyze whether the arts can mitigate negative impacts of social distancing and isolation on mental health and wellbeing, ease the burden of closed day-care and school facilities on families, and preserve attitudes of solidarity and trust. Using the SOEP-CoV questionnaire, we examine whether experience with music enabled individuals and households to handle social isolation and ...

Does the Quality of Early Childhood Education and Care Centers Mitigate the Risk of Externalizing Problems? A Genetic-Sensitive Study of Preschoolers in Germany

This paper examines the extent to which quality characteristics of early childhood education and care (ECEC) experienced at ages 4–6 influence externalizing problems at ages 6–8. Based on a random sample of 713 same-sex twins (55% female, 41% with a migration background) in 364 ECEC centers in Germany, the paper not only distinguishes between detailed ECEC quality characteristics but additionally investigates ...

Mobility after job loss in Germany: the effects of regional economic opportunities and economic worries on mobility intentions and behaviour

This study examines the impact of local economic opportunity structures on mobility intentions and mobility behaviour subsequent to involuntary job loss in Germany. Previous research has demonstrated that job loss leads to an increased propensity for regional mobility; however, the role of the regional economy as a push factor and its influence on the decision to relocate remains unclear. The focus ...

Breathing unequal air: environmental disadvantage and residential sorting of immigrant minorities in England and Germany

Despite ongoing debates on environmental justice, the link between selective residential migration and the unequal exposure to environmental hazards remains underexplored. Previous research has often relied on spatially aggregated data and focused on single-country analyses, limiting our understanding of broader patterns. We address this gap using longitudinal household-level data from the UK Household ...

The Tied-Mover Penalty and the Gender Earnings Gap

Job changes often require workers to relocate. However, many workers are not isolated agents but live in couples who make location decisions jointly. When relocation occurs due to a job change by the "main" earner, the other partner becomes a "tied mover" who is likely to benefit less from the move; typically, the latter is the woman, and the "tied-mover penalty" then ...

Spatial earnings inequality

Earnings inequality in Germany has increased dramatically. Measuring inequality locally at the level of cities annually since 1985, we find that behind this development is the rapidly worsening inequality in the largest cities, driven by increasing earnings polarisation. In the cross-section, local earnings inequality rises substantially in city size, and this city-size inequality penalty has increased ...

Charitable giving and income: Households with high income donate less than poorer households relative to their disposable income

For the first time in 2020, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), an annual survey of private households, surveyed the donation behavior of a random sample of high net worth individuals that had been added in 2019. As a result of this sample, the volume of private donations increased from 9.7 to 10.3 billion euros in 2019, despite the fact that fewer individuals donated and the donation rate was lower (46.8 ...

Reiche Haushalte in Deutschland spenden relativ zum Einkommen weniger als ärmere Haushalte

Die regelmäßige Haushaltsbefragung des SOEP zum Spendenverhalten hat sich im Jahr 2020 erstmals auch an eine Zufallsstichprobe von Hochvermögenden gerichtet, die im Jahr zuvor in das SOEP aufgenommen wurden. Bei Einbeziehung der Hochvermögenden erhöht sich das private Spendenvolumen im Berichtsjahr 2019 von 9,7 auf 10,3 Milliarden Euro, obwohl insgesamt weniger Menschen spenden als im Jahr 2017 und ...

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