Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Short- and long-term health effects of job insecurity. Fixed effects panel analysis of German data

OBJECTIVE: Previous research has linked job insecurity to health deterioration. The risk accumulation model suggests that health effects of job insecurity may persist even after job security is restored, yet long-term empirical analyses are scarce. Our study evaluates the long-term effects of accumulated exposures to affective job insecurity on mental and physical health among the working-age population ...

Perception and protection: The effect of risk exposure on demand for index insurance in Mongolia

This study provides novel evidence on how risk exposure shapes demand for index-based weather insurance. The focus is on Mongolia, where index-based livestock insurance is offered as a commercial product to pastoralists threatened by extreme weather events that cause high livestock mortality. The analysis draws on district-level data covering the whole country, spanning eleven years. Our study exploits ...

Estimating the Marginal Costs of Road Renewals Evidence from a Duration Approach

Within an analytical approach that mirrors the relationship between road deterioration, traffic load, and road renewal, we estimate the marginal costs of road renewals as part of a social marginal cost scheme for road charging. Based on a comprehensive data set for German motor ways, we estimate a Weibull dura tion model with shared frailties that account for unobserved heterogeneity, including covariates ...

The Long Way to Gender Equality: Gender Pay Differences in Germany, 1871-2021

This paper provides the first time series of the gender earnings ratio for the full-time employed workforce in Germany since the 1870s and compares Germany’s path with the Swedish and U.S. cases. The industrialization period yielded slow advances in economic gender relations due to women’s delayed inclusion in the industrial workforce. The first half of the 20th century exhibited a marked leap. In ...

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Inanspruchnahme von Unterstützungs- und Entlastungsdiensten für Eltern pflegebedürftiger Kinder: Ergebnisse der FamBer-Beobachtungsstudie

Hintergrund: Eltern pflegebedürftiger Kinder in Deutschland können auf eine Vielzahl von Entlastungs- und Unterstützungsdiensten zurückgreifen. Bislang fehlen jedoch systematische Untersuchungen und quantitative Daten zur Inanspruchnahme solcher Angebote auf der individuellen Ebene der Eltern und anderen Erziehungsberechtigten. Fragestellung/Ziel: Die Studie zur Vereinbarkeit von Pflege und Beruf für ...

Development of German language skills, worries and life satisfaction among refugees during the first year of the Covid 19 pandemic: Fifth wave of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees

BAMF Brief Analysis 2|2022 examines how refugees' German skills, as well as worries and satisfaction with life, developed between 2016 and 2020. The analyses place a special focus on developments during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data from the five waves of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees are used to analyse how language acquisition, worries and satisfaction with life developed ...

Migration and Asylum Flows to Germany: New Insights Into the Motives

This study analyzes the determinants of both total migration and asylum migration to Germany. For the analysis, a comprehensive empirical model is set up that includes climate change, economic opportunities, such as per capita income differentials, links to Germany, home country characteristics (population growth, poverty, consumer confidence, unemployment), the political and institutional situation ...

Who Opts Out? The Customisation of Marriage in the German Matrimonial Property Regime

This study examines the prevalence of marital contracts across marriage cohorts (1990–2019) in Germany. We further investigate the characteristics of spouses who signed a marital contract. Using cross-sectional data from the German Family Panel (pairfam, 2018/19), we employ complementary log–log and multinomial logistic regression models to predict the prevalence and the type of marital contracts. ...