Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

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The impact of urban-rural residents’ life quality gap on the cultivated land transfer

Cultivated land transfer serves as an efficient way to mitigate the escalating issue of cultivated land abandonment due to labor migration driven by the urban-rural gap, while also ensuring national food security. Nevertheless, the impact of how urban-rural resident’ life quality gap (RLQG) affect cultivated land transfer decision-making remains unclear. This study developed a theoretical framework ...

Preference-Driven Contract Design: How Education Alters Risk, Patience, and Effort in Incentive Schemes

Performance-contingent pay raises productivity, yet in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) only about 16% of workers report receiving performance pay, with the incidence being roughly seven percentage points higher among university graduates than among non-graduates. This coexistence of low aggregate take-up and a strong skill gradient is puzzling. This paper accounts for these twin facts with a ...

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

FAIRness of research data, meaning that data are managed according to the principles of being Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable, has become a ubiquitous requirement in research data policies as well as in general guidelines for research data management. Meeting this requirement largely depends on the availability of rich and standardized DDI-metadata—based on the Data Documentation ...

LabFam Individual Biographies harmonised family and employment histories based on panel surveys

Reproducibility in social science is often hindered by inconsistent data preparation and limited transparency. The LabFam Individual Biographies (LIB) project addresses this challenge by providing open, cross-national harmonization of life-course histories from five long-running panels: Australia (HILDA), Germany (SOEP), Switzerland (SHP), the United Kingdom (BHPS/UKHLS), and the United States (PSID). ...

Zwischen Integration und Rückkehr: Die Bleibewünsche ukrainischer Geflüchteter in Deutschland

Familiäre Einbindung und soziale Kontakte von Menschen aus Syrien und Eritrea in Deutschland

Bisher wurde noch wenig untersucht, wie das Ausmaß der familiären Einbindung neu zugewanderter Menschen den Aufbau sozialer Kontakte zwischen ihnen und Menschen der Aufnahmegesellschaft beeinflusst. Dabei besteht die Möglichkeit, dass zugewanderte Menschen weniger angewiesen auf sozialen Austausch mit Menschen der Aufnahmegesellschaft sind, sobald enge Familienangehörige mit in Deutschland leben. Bisherige ...

Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs and the Size of Their Firms

In this study, we examine the relationship between personality traits, captured by risk tolerance and the Big Five traits, and firm size, as measured by the number of employees. We show that the personality of entrepreneurs matters for the size of their firm they operate. We use a novel add-on to the German Socio-Economic Panel that includes a sub-sample of owner-managers running larger firms. High ...

Examining accumulation and adaptation in psychosocial and material exposures and self-rated health: A fixed-effects approach within income groups using German panel data

Aims: This study investigates how continuous exposure to psychosocial and material factors influences self-rated health (SRH) trajectories in different income groups, uniquely contrasting two mechanisms from a life course perspective: accumulation, where disadvantages intensify with longer exposure, and adaptation, where individuals adjust to adverse conditions.Methods: Based on the German Socio-Economic ...

Sports as a gateway – and a glass ceiling? Physical leisure and refugee employment trajectories

This study investigates the role of engaging in physical leisure activities in facilitating refugees? structural integration through enhancing their social capital, destination-language proficiency, and health. The physical fitness gained from such activities can also be crucial for securing physically demanding jobs. As employment significantly influences refugees? social integration, this research ...