Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

How routine tasks affect labor market inequalities between vocational and tertiary graduates over the career

How do routine tasks shape disparities in income and employment prospects between workers with vocational and tertiary educational qualifications? Whereas existing research predominantly emphasizes skill differentials as the primary driver, this study proposes that group differences in the prevalence and returns to routine tasks contribute to existing disparities. Using decomposition methods on data ...

Re-partnering and single mothers' mental health and life satisfaction trajectories

Objective: This study examines single mothers' mental health and life satisfaction trajectories around re-partnering transitions, and the driving factors of these associations. Background: Single mothers are a particularly disadvantaged group in terms of their mental health and life satisfaction. According to the resource model, re-partnering has a positive effect on these outcomes because it ...

Decomposing educational inequality in achievement test scores using ANOGI methodology

This paper addresses the influence of ethnic and gender disparities on educational outcomes and recognizes the significance of maternal education in shaping students' academic achievements. The study aims to evaluate the efficacy of policies aimed at integrating maternal involvement in education among 15-year-old students from OECD countries. Specifically, it investigates whether students' ...

Social Media: Population Favors Regulation—but Ban Only for Those up to the Age of 12

Social media usage by children and young people is an increasingly controversial topic. The focus is on risks, opportunities, and possible regulations. Politicians from all relevant parties are now open to a social media ban up to a certain age; the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs has set up a commission of experts. Based on a short survey in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), conducted in September ...

Soziale Medien: Bevölkerung befürwortet Regulierung – Altersverbot aber nur bis zwölf Jahre mehrheitsfähig

Die Nutzung sozialer Medien durch Kinder und Jugendliche wird zunehmend kontrovers diskutiert. Im Fokus stehen dabei Risiken, Chancen und mögliche Regulierungen. Mittlerweile zeigen sich Politiker*innen aller relevanten Parteien offen für ein Social-Media-Verbot bis zu einem bestimmten Alter; das Bundesfamilienministerium hat eine Expert*innenkommission eingesetzt. Auf Basis einer Kurzbefragung im ...

When are pupil absences most harmful for academic achievement?

How Behavior and Motivation Mediate the Impact of School Absences on Achievement

This study investigates the mediating role of psychosocial factors, including behaviors and motivations, in the association between school absences and academic achievement. Using comprehensive longitudinal data from England, linking National Pupil Database (NPD) school register data with Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) survey data (N=7,204), the analysis explores the impact of absences at ages 12/13 ...

The Minimum Wage in Germany: Institutional Setting and a Systematic Review of Key Findings

The introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany in 2015 aimed at improving the welfare of low-wage workers but was also accompanied by concerns about distortions in Europe’s largest economy. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of results from the evaluation of the German minimum wage by compiling recent descriptive evidence and a systematic literature review on causal effects through ...

Inanspruchnahme medizinischer Leistungen durch Mütter geht in Krisenzeiten zurück – Sind Alleinerziehende stärker betroffen?

Die Inanspruchnahme medizinischer Leistungen erfordert Ressourcen, die besonders bei Alleinerziehenden knapp sein können. In Krisenzeiten und den damit verbundenen Herausforderungen im Alltag erhöht sich die Schwelle für aufsuchende medizinische Versorgung zusätzlich. Die vorliegende Studie basiert auf Daten von 6155 Müttern aus den Erhebungswellen des sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP) 2019 und 2021. ...

Music learning and skill development: a replication study of Hille and Schupp (2015)

Previous work by Hille and Schupp (2015) examined the associations between learning a musical instrument (ML) in childhood and cognitive functioning, academic achievement, personality measures and perceived control using a longitudinal data set, the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In this article we replicate major parts of this study by applying similar methods but now to an extended panel ...