Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Between Life Cycle Model, Labor Market Integration and Discrimination: An Econometric Analysis of the Determinants of Return Migration

This paper studies the determinants of return migration by applying the Cox hazard model to longitudinal micro data from 1996 to 2012, including immigrants of a wide range of nationalities. The empirical results reveal the validity of the life cycle model of Migration Economics and a strong return probability decreasing effect of labor market integration and societal integration. Modeling non-proportional ...

Substantial Labor Market Effects of the Residency Status: How Important are Initial Conditions At Arrival for Immigrants?

This paper uses information on the legal status upon arrival to study long-term labor market effects, whereas selection and potential outmigration are taken into account by a large set of methods. I find that immigrants arrived with a job commitment in Germany achieve a longterm income advantage of 18.6% relative to other migrant groups, while language skills and ethnic networks can be excluded as ...

The Impact of Language Skills on Immigrants’ Labor Market Integration: A Brief Revision With a New Approach

I examine the impact of language skills on immigrants’ labor market performance by applying a new approach, which allows to estimate wage benefits attributed to initial language skills at arrival. By exploiting unique data, I isolate the endogenous part of current German skills and instrument current command by German proficiency measured retrospectively at the point in time of migration. This approach ...

Forschungsprojekt "Die Verteilung des Humankapitals"

Gegenstand der Studie ist das Humankapital (Bildungs- und Ausbildungsstand) als besondere Vermögensart. Es wird untersucht, welche Bedeutung das Humankapital für die Entstehung und Entwicklung von Armut und Reichtum, für das Ausmaß sozialer Ungleichheit und für die Ungleichmäßigkeit der Verteilung des Privatvermögens hat. Das Forschungsprojekt macht durch Auswertungen wissenschaftlicher Literatur und ...

Starker Rückgang der Umweltbesorgnis in Ostdeutschland

Senioren: Ende gut, fast alles gut

Alt werden macht Angst. Doch das muss es nicht, das Bild des traurigen Rentners ist überholt. Denn wer in Deutschland alt wird, ist meist ziemlich zufrieden.

Die berufliche Positionierung ausländischer Erwerbspersonen in Bayern. Zu den Auswirkungen der Arbeitsmigration in der Zeit von 1955-1973 auf die heutigen Arbeitsmarktstrukturen (Dissertation)

Delegation in Long-Term Relationships

This paper considers the effects of a two-period interaction on the decision of a principal to delegate authority to a potentially biased but better informed agent. Compared to the (repeated) one-period case, the agent's first period actions may also signal his type which in turn impacts wages in Period 2. As a result, biased agents have an incentive not to follow their own preferences in Period ...

Seasonal variation in sports participation

This study explores indicators describing socio-demographics, sports participation characteristics and motives which are associated with variation in sports participation across seasons. Data were drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel which contains detailed information on the sports behaviour of adults in Germany. Overall, two different measures of seasonal variation are developed and used as ...

Sports Participation and Social Capital Formation During Adolescence

Objective National and international policies claim that young people's sports participation improves their social capital. This article is the first to examine if sports participation has a causal effect on social capital formation during adolescence and whether such effects depend on the organizational format or the type of sports practiced. Methods Propensity score matching is employed in the ...