Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Ethnic diversity, poverty and social trust in Germany: Evidence from a behavioral measure of trust

Several scholars have concluded that ethnic diversity has negative consequences for social trust. However, recent research has called into question whether ethnic diversity per se has detrimental effects, or whether lower levels of trust in diverse communities simply reflect a higher concentration of less trusting groups, such as poor people, minorities, or immigrants. Drawing upon a nationally representative ...

Parametric and Semiparametric Estimation of the Binary Response Model of Labor Market Participation

Welfare Comparison between Switzerland and West Germany

Zur Erklärung der Assimilation von Migranten an die Einwanderungsgesellschaft am Beispiel der Vergabe von Vornamen

Akkulturation und die Vergabe von Vornamen. Welche Namen wählen Migranten für ihre Kinder und warum?

From Hasan to Herbert: Name-Giving Patterns of Immigrant Parents between Acculturation and Ethnic Maintenance

Names often indicate belonging to a certain ethnic group. When immigrant parents choose a first name for their child that is common in their host society, they show a high degree of acculturation. In contrast, selecting a name common only in the parents’ country of origin indicates ethnic maintenance. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel for Turkish, Southwest European, and former Yugoslav ...

Transnational Human Capital, Education, and Social Inequality. Analyses of International Student Exchange

Due to globalization, skills such as foreign language proficiency and intercultural competence, here referred to as transnational human capital, are becoming increasingly important. A study-abroad program during schooling is one of the most efficient ways to acquire transnational human capital. Until now, class-specific access to transnational capital has remained largely unexplored. With recourse ...

Die Herkunft macht den Unterschied: Kapitalien, Klassenlage und die Chancen des Erwerbs von transnationalem Humankapital

Im Mittelpunkt dieses Kapitels steht die Frage, inwieweit soziale Ungleichheiten den Erwerb von transnationalem Humankapital bei Jugendlichen prägen und welche konkreten Ungleichheitsfaktoren diesbezüglich von Relevanz sind. Die theoretische Fundierung unserer empirischen Analysen bildet Pierre Bourdieus Klassen- und Kapitalientheorie. Wir untersuchen zunächst, in welchem Maße die Kapitalienausstattung ...

Einstellungen der BürgerInnen in Deutschland zur Aufnahme von Geflüchteten

Seit Beginn 2016 untersucht das „Stimmungsbarometer zu Geflüchteten in Deutschland“ monatlich die mit dem Thema Migration verbundenen Einstellungen, Erwartungen und Befürchtungen der BürgerInnen in Deutschland. Die im März 2016 durchgeführte dritte Welle der Umfrage zeigt, dass weiterhin mehr als die Hälfte der Befragten mit der Flüchtlingszuwanderung mehr Risiken als Chancen verbindet. Trotzdem spricht ...

German Public Opinion on Admitting Refugees

Since the beginning of 2016, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study has been conducting a monthly survey of German attitudes, expectations, and fears concerning migration. The third wave of the survey,—the Barometer of Public Opinion on Refugees in Germany (Stimmungsbarometer zu Geflüchteten in Deutschland)—, conductedin March 2016, shows that more than half of all respondents still associate the influx ...