Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Benefit Receipt: Evidence from Germany

We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation between welfare receipt experienced in the parental household and subsequent own welfare receipt of young adults. In a second step, we investigate whether the observed correlations reflect causal effects of past welfare experience. We use family fixed effects estimations and Gottschalk's ...

Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990–99). We compare their wage assimilation to that of ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Bloc countries and international immigrants to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results suggest that East Germans faced significant initial ...

Mental health outcomes of adults born very preterm or with very low birth weight: A systematic review

Preterm birth research is poised to explore the mental health of adults born very preterm(VP; <32+0 weeks gestational age) and/or very low birth weight(VLBW; <1500g) through individual participant data meta-analyses, but first the previous evidence needs to be understood. We systematically reviewed and assessed the quality of the evidence from VP/VLBW studies with mental health symptoms or disorders ...

It’s a mismatch! Overeducation and career mobility in Germany

The career mobility model suggests that overeducated workers are more prone to take up on-the-job training, to climb up the career ladder, or to leave to professions more suitable to their educational level. Our empirical analysis, using the German SOEP, confirms this theory for Germany. Comparing adequately qualified and overqualified workers in jobs that require the same level of formal qualification ...

Persons in contexts: The role of social networks and social density for the dynamic regulation of face-to-face interactions in daily life

Current psychological theories on daily social interactions emphasize individual differences yet are underspecified regarding contextual factors. We aim to extend this research by examining how two context factors shape social interactions in daily life: how many relationships people maintain and how densely people live together. In Study 1, 307 German participants (M(age) = 39.44 years, SD(age) = ...

Persönlichkeit für Integration wichtiger als Religion

Wie gut sich Geflüchtete in die Gesellschaft integrieren, hängt von ihrer Persönlichkeit ab. Eine Studie hat ergeben, dass risikobereite Flüchtlinge zum Beispiel schneller Arbeit und mehr Kontakte zu Einheimischen finden. Die Religion spielt laut Studie keine entscheidende Rolle.

Bruttowertschöpfung von unbezahlter Arbeit

Das Sozio-ökonomische Panel (SOEP) wird jährlich im September erhoben. Darin werden knapp 30’000 Menschen in 22’000 Haushalten in Deutschland befragt. Die Befragung wird als repräsentativ gewertet. Durchgeführt wird das SOEP durch eine forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung am Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaft (DIW) in Berlin. Innerhalb des Fragebogens, der sich mit verschiedenen Aspekten des ...

Personality Traits and the Likelihood of Self-Employment: A Journey into the Crafts’ Way of Doing Business

Given the renewed scholarly interest in the crafts, this paper explores the nuances of crafts entrepreneurship through a personality-based approach. Our findings validate prior research on the general influence of broad and narrow personality traits on self-employment. However, our analysis also suggests that certain effects differ between crafts and non-crafts, most notably the role of the Big Five ...

Evaluation der Rechtsgrundlagen und Maßnahmen der Pandemiepolitik

Do Migrants Pay Their Way? A Net Fiscal Analysis for Germany

This study quantifies the direct average net fiscal impact (ANFI) of migration in Germany, taking into account both indirect taxes and in-kind benefits such as health and education spending. Using a status quo approach with data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for 2018 and microsimulation techniques to impute both indirect taxes and in-kind benefits, our results show that migrants, especially ...