Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Disentangling the (Long-Term) Effects of Fixed-Term Employment on Well-Being from a Country-Comparative and Household-Integrative Perspective

This cumulative thesis raises the overarching research question: How does fixed-term employment affect well-being? Three smaller, more specific research questions emerge from this primary research question. First, what are the short- and long-term effects of fixed-term employment for the well-being of individuals and couples? Second, what are the mechanisms explaining the effects of fixed-term employment ...

Does the Gender Equality Paradox in Personality Manifest at the Within-country Regional Level? Insights from Germany, Russia, and the United States

Objective: The aim of this study was to contribute to the understanding of the gender equality paradox by examining within-country variation in the size of the gender/sex gap in the Five-Factor Model (FFM) personality traits within three geographically large and socially diverse countries and to explore whether gender/sex differences in personality trait scores across regions in these countries were ...

Employment in Germany 1984 to 2019: Between stability and change

Estimation of Linear Models from Coarsened Observations: A Method of Moments Approach

In the last few decades, the study of ordinal data in which the variable of interest is not exactly observed but only known to be in a specific ordinal category has become important. In Psychometrics such variables are analysed under the heading of item response models (IRM). In Econometrics, subjective well-being (SWB) and self-assessed health (SAH) studies, and in marketing research, Ordered Probit, ...

Characterizing Measurement Error in the German Socio-Economic Panel Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data

This paper exploits the linkage of German administrative social security data (GER: Integrierte Erwerbsbiografien) and survey data from the socio-economic panel (GER: Sozio-ökonomisches Panel, SOEP) for the characterization of measurement error in metrics quantifying individual-specific labor earnings in Germany. We find that survey participants’ decision whether to consent to linkage is non-random ...

Migration and intergenerational stability in female employment: The impact of differences between sending and receiving countries

Objective: This article studies the intergenerational stability of employment in families of immigrants cross-nationally by investigating to what extent contextual differences between sending and receiving countries affect the transmission of labour force participation from mothers to daughters. Background: It is often argued that a low level of labour force participation among female immigrants reflects ...

The impact of local labour market conditions on school leaving decisions

We use data from the British Household Panel Survey and Labour Force Survey to examine the relationship between the demand for post compulsory education and prevailing labour market conditions. We explicitly incorporate the role of family resources by allowing effects to differ between young people whose families are home owners and those whose families are not home owners. We find evidence that household ...

Sozialbericht 2024: Ein Datenreport für Deutschland

Der Sozialbericht 2024 - Ein Datenreport für Deutschland (bisher: Datenreport. Ein Sozialbericht für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland) wird herausgegeben von der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung zusammen mit dem Statistischen Bundesamt, dem Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung und dem Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel des Deutschen ...

Sozialräumliche Unterschiede und individuelle Gesundheitseinschätzung in deutschen Großstädten: Eine Analyse auf Basis der Innerstädtischen Raumbeobachtung und des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels

Bewohnerinnen und Bewohner in deutschen Großstädten finden unterschiedliche Lebensbedingungen in ihren Stadtteilen vor. Wir vergleichen die Gesundheit von Personen in Stadtteilen mit einer hohen SGB-II Quote mit der von Personen aus Stadtteilen mit niedriger SGB-II Quote. Wir wollen den Einfluss kleinräumiger Unterschiede auf die Gesundheit, unter Berücksichtigung individueller sozioökonomischer und ...

Tax noncompliance and inequality - Three empirical essays for the case of Germany

Chapter 1: Germany's efforts to curb international tax evasion. We evaluate the impact of regulatory attempts by German authorities to combat international tax evasion and report a 32-34% reduction of tax haven deposits in German banks as a reaction to bilateral information exchange. We test for reactions in monthly cross-border liabilities of German banks against non-residents employing a new ...