Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Enhancing the understanding of urban economics by refining the spatial dimension

Empirical research in the field of urban economics benefits more from accurate spatial data than any other field of economics. Exploiting the spatial relationship between economic entities allows for generating comprehensive data sets which in turn allow for more comprehensive modelling and hypotheses testing. This disseration presents three essays on different aspects of urban economics which all ...

Wage Risk and Portfolio Choice: The Role of Correlated Returns

From standard portfolio-choice theory it is well-understood that background risk, overwhelmingly due to wage risk, is one of the central determinants of individuals’ portfolio composition: higher background risk reduces risky investments. However, if background risk is negatively correlated with financial market risk, higher background risk implies more risky investment. We quantify the influence of ...

The dynamics of recent refugees’ language acquisition: how do their pathways compare to those of other new immigrants?

Do the processes underlying destination-language acquisition differ between recently arrived refugees and other new immigrants? Based on a well-established model of language learning according to which language fluency is a function of efficiency, incentives, and exposure, this study addresses general processes of language learning as well as conditions specific to refugees. Longitudinal data on refugees ...

Muster und Bedingungen des Erwerbs und Erhalts herkunftssprachlicher Kompetenzen

Der Beitrag zielt darauf ab, herkunftssprachliche Kompetenzen in der Generationenfolge zu beschreiben und Bedingungen zu untersuchen, die ihren Erwerb und Erhalt begünstigen. Am Beispiel von Kindern und Jugendlichen, die selbst oder deren Eltern beziehungsweise Großeltern aus der Türkei oder der ehemaligen Sowjetunion stammen, werden herkunftssprachliche Kenntnisse in verschiedenen Etappen des Bildungsverlaufs ...

Fünf Jahre danach: Eine Zwischenbilanz zur Integration von Geflüchteten: Editorial

Mehrheit der Geflüchteten hat höhere Bildung im Vergleich zur Herkunftsgesellschaft

Die Bildungsabschlüsse von MigrantInnen werden typischerweise anhand der im Zielland geltenden Standards eingeordnet. Weniger Beachtung findet dagegen die Stellung, die diese Qualifikationen im jeweiligen Herkunftsland haben. In diesem Beitrag wird die mitgebrachte Bildung verschiedener Gruppen von Zugewanderten mit den Bildungsverteilungen des jeweiligen Herkunftslands und mit der Bildungsverteilung ...

The legacy of state socialism on attitudes toward immigration

Does the politico–economic system affect preferences for immigration? In this study, I show that individuals exposed to life under state socialism have formed and persistently hold different attitudes toward immigration. By exploiting the division and reunification of Germany, I estimate the influence of state socialism on attitudes toward immigration. Drawing on rich individual panel data, I find ...

Does More Schooling Lead to Less or More Inequality of Educational Opportunity?

Critical theories of education but also the dynamics of skill formation model predict that the education system reproduces educational inequalities. Contrary to this hypothesis, empirical studies comparing the change in inequalities in academic performance over the summer to the change in these inequalities during the school year, have argued that schooling reduces inequalities in educational performance. ...

Health-Related Quality of Life of Persons with Direct, Indirect and No Migration Background in Germany: A Cross-Sectional Study Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Global migration towards and within Europe remains high, shaping the structure of populations. Approximately 24% of the total German population had a migration background in 2017. The aim of the study was to analyze the association between migration background and health-related quality of life (HrQoL) in Germany. The analyses were based on 2014 and 2016 data of the German Socio-Economic Panel. Differences ...

Earn More Tomorrow: Overconfident Income Expectations and Consumer Indebtedness

This paper examines whether biased income expectations due to overconfidence lead to higher levels of debt-taking. In a lab experiment, participants can purchase goods by borrowing against their future income. We exogenously manipulate income expectations by letting income depend on relative performance in hard and easy quiz tasks. We successfully generate biased income expectations and show that participants ...