Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Labour Market Participation of Refugees in Germany: Legal Context and Individual-level Factors (Kapitel 10)

Labour market access is a crucial aspect of integration. Among other things, it provides migrants with economic resources to participate in societal life in the host country. This chapter explores the factors of labour market access for refugees in Germany. First, we provide a brief overview of how labour market access is determined by legal status. Second, we explore individual aspects of labour market ...

Corona-Monitoring bundesweit (RKI-SOEP-Studie): Überblick zu ersten Ergebnissen

Berücksichtigt man alle in der Studie erhobenen Informationen (IgG-Antikörper-Tests, PCR-Tests und Fragebögen), kann davon ausgegangen werden, dass sich nur etwa zwei von 100 Erwachsenen bis November 2020 mit SARS-CoV-2 infiziert hatten. Die Zahl der Infektionen ist etwa doppelt so hoch wie aus den Meldezahlen für den genannten Zeitraum bekannt (Untererfassung). Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Menschen ...

The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation

This article develops and estimates a dynamic model where individuals differ in ability and location preference to evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants’ careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our analysis highlights a novel form of selective return migration where those who plan to stay longer invest more into skill acquisition, with important implications ...

Language, or Dialect, That Is the Question. How Attitudes Affect Language Statistics Using the Example of Low German

This paper explores how attitudes affect the seemingly objective process of counting speakers of varieties using the example of Low German, Germany’s sole regional language. The initial focus is on the basic taxonomy of classifying a variety as a language or a dialect. Three representative surveys then provide data for the analysis: the Germany Survey 2008, the Northern Germany Survey 2016, and the ...

Spracheinstellungen in Deutschland - Was die Menschen in Deutschland über Sprache denken

Welche Dialekte werden in Deutschland gesprochen? Sprache in Zahlen: Folge 2

Das Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim (IDS) hat in Kooperation mit dem Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) eine deutschlandweite Repräsentativerhebung unter 4.380 Personen zum Sprachrepertoire der Menschen in Deutschland und zu ihren Spracheinstellungen durchgeführt: die Deutschland-Erhebung 2017. Eine Einführung in die Deutschland-Erhebung 2017 findet sich im ersten Teil ...

Personality maturation and personality relaxation: Differences of the Big Five personality traits in the years around the beginning and ending of working life

Objective: At work, people are confronted with clear behavioral expectations. In line with the Social Investment Principle, the beginning and ending of working life might thus promote changes in personality traits that are relevant at work (e.g., Conscientiousness). Method: Based on the data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we examined nuanced differences of the Big Five personality traits ...

Gender differences in second language proficiency—Evidence from recent humanitarian migrants in Germany

In this paper, we address gender differences in the host language proficiency of humanitarian migrants. Prior research has produced inconclusive results with regard to women’s host language proficiency relative to that of men: sometimes women’s proficiency exceeds that of men, sometimes women lag behind men, and sometimes there are no substantial differences. Using data on recent humanitarian migrants ...

Why a labour market boom does not necessarily bring down inequality: putting together Germany's inequality puzzle

After an economically tough start to the new millennium, Germany experienced an unprecedented employment boom after 2005, only stopped by the COVID-19 pandemic. Persistently high levels of inequality despite a booming labour market and drastically falling unemployment rates constituted a puzzle, suggesting either that the German job miracle mainly benefitted individuals in the mid- or high-income range ...

Für wen lohnt sich Arbeit? Partizipationsbelastungen im Steuer-, Abgaben- und Transfersystem (Studie im Auftrag der Bertelsmann-Stiftung)

In dieser Studie untersuchen wir die Beschäftigungsanreize des deutschen Steuer-, Abgaben- und Transfersystems. Um die Anreizwirkungen von Steuern und Transferleistungen zu beurteilen, stellt man typischerweise die Frage, wie stark ihr verfügbares Einkommen steigt, wenn eine Person das Arbeitsangebot ausweitet. Während die effektive Grenzbelastung ("intensive margin") relevant ist, um die ...