Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Analysing Effects of Birth Order on Intelligence, Educational Attainment, Big Five, and Risk Aversion in an Indonesian Sample

Few studies have examined birth order effects on personality in countries that are not Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD). However, theories have generally suggested that interculturally universal family dynamics are the mechanism behind birth order effects, and prominent theories such as resource dilutionwould predict even stronger linear effects in poorer countries. Here, ...

Fünf Jahre "Wir schaffen das" - Eine Bilanz aus der Perspektive des Arbeitsmarktes

Dieser Bericht untersucht die Arbeitsmarktintegration der 2013 bis einschließlich 2016 zugezogenen Schutzsuchenden auf Grundlage der dritten Welle der IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Befragung von Geflüchteten, die mit Daten aus den Integrierten Erwerbsbiografien (IEB) verknüpft wurden sowie aktuellen Daten der Beschäftigungsstatistik der Bundesagentur für Arbeit. Unter den Geflüchteten, die sich bis zum Jahresende ...

Offshoring, job satisfaction and job insecurity

This paper investigates the effects of offshoring on individual job satisfaction and perceived risk of job loss. The authors merge microdata from the German Socio-economic Panel dataset (SOEP) with indicators of insertion in global value chains at the industry level for the period 2000–2013. They test two hypotheses. First, theauthors investigate whether workers in industries with higher offshoring ...

The Link between Relative Pay and Job Satisfaction Revisited

This paper investigates the connection between job satisfaction and comparison pay (defined as a person’s rank within a reference group) with SOEP Data. Based on work values and social networks, we argue that the existing literature neglects heterogeneities in individual job satisfaction as well as wage trajectories along the career path. Thus, previous studies based on survey data likely overestimate ...

Cohort Changes in the Level and Dispersion of Gender Ideology after German Reunification : Results from a Natural Experiment

Modernization theorists’ ‘rising tide hypothesis’ predicted the continuous spread of egalitarian gender ideologies across the globe. We revisit this assumption by studying reunified Germany, a country that did not follow a strict modernization pathway. The socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR) actively fostered female employment and systematically promoted egalitarian ideologies before reunification ...

His and her working hours and well-Being in Germany: A longitudinal crossover-spillover analysis

This paper investigates the relationship between work time arrangements and personal well-being in married and cohabiting couples. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP), we study how the number of hours worked by the survey respondents and their partners influenced their own well-being. We also investigate possible transmission mechanisms between the two variables, namely income, ...

Life satisfaction and return migration: analysing the role of life satisfaction for migrant return intentions in Germany

This study analyses the role of life satisfaction for the intention of migrants to return to their country of origin. It is argued that the utility function of return migration is a function of life satisfaction gains and losses due to migration. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the World Value Survey, first-generation migrants from 26 countries were studied on the country level and within ...

Initial Placement Restrictions: Opportunity or Challenge for Refugee Integration?

The impact of economic uncertainty, precarious employment, and risk attitudes on the transition to parenthood

This study investigates how precarious employment throughout the life course affects the fertility behavior of men and women in Germany, and how risk attitudes moderate exposure to objectively given uncertainty. Analyzing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study from 1990 to 2015, I find that men and women have become quite similar in their fertility behavior: Stable employment accelerates ...

Child care, social norms and women's labor supply: Four empirical essays in family economics

Diese Dissertation umfasst vier eigenständige Kapitel, die jeweils einen eigenen Beitrag zur ökonomischen Literatur der frühkindlichen Bildung und Betreuung, sozialer Normen und Erwerbsentscheidungen von Frauen leisten. Soziale Normen gelten als zentrale Erklärung für die sich ändernde Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen. Kapitel 2 dieser Dissertation untersucht die intergenerationale Transmission dieser ...