Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

The Influence of Age on Stability and Change in Personality (Dissertation)

Wie entwickelt sich die Persönlichkeit mit dem Alter? Obwohl diese Frage in der Forschung großes Interesse erlangt hat, besteht weiterhin Unsicherheit über die genaue Altersentwicklung der Persönlichkeit. Die vorliegende Dissertation umfasst zwei Artikel, die sich mit heterogenen Befunden zum Einfluss des Alters auf verschiedene Konzepte von Stabilität und Veränderung der Big-Five-Persönlichkeitseigenschaften ...

Unveiling financial dependency: The education-specific impact of first birth on household and individual poverty risks within couples in Germany

Beeinflussen Gemeinschaftsunterkünfte die soziale Integration Geflüchteter? Eine empirische Analyse anhand der IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Befragung von Geflüchteten

Gemeinschaftsunterkünfte spielen bei der Unterbringung Geflüchteter eine zentrale Rolle. Jedoch gibt es die Befürchtung, dass diese Art der Unterbringung die soziale Integration der Geflüchteten behindert. Denn es wird angenommen, dass die baulichen und räumlichen Charakteristika der Gemeinschaftsunterkünfte Kontakte zwischen den Geflüchteten und Personen der Aufnahmegesellschaft erschweren oder gar ...

Measuring attitudes towards standard German and German dialects: Results of recent representative survey data from Germany

Like all modern Western societies, Germany is a multilingual country. While German is the most widely spoken language, both as a first language and as an everyday language, residents who do not have German as their first language but another language (or several other languages) and/or who use another language (or several other languages) in their everyday life besides, are estimated to make up about ...

Germany under the Tinfoil Hat? The associations of the big five personality traits and coronavirus conspiracy beliefs with the intention to get vaccinated

Background The governments of democracies worldwide are relying on the active cooperation of their populations to combat COVID-19. Simultaneously, beliefs in conspiracy theories surrounding the pandemic have flourished. The present article examines the effects of the big five personality traits and conspiracy beliefs on the intention to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in Germany. Methods This correlational, ...

Essays in Migration and Regional Trends in Germany (Dissertation)

Germany is characterised by a remarkable history of labour migration, particularly since World War II. The country experiences regional economic disparities, manifested in varying income inequality levels, employment prospects, economic development and infrastructure. These regional differences and the existence of structural barriers shape the extent to which migrants integrate into society. This ...

Die Armen sind ein bisschen weniger arm

Die Vermögen in Deutschland sind nicht ganz so ungleich verteilt, wenn man Rentenansprüche berücksichtigt. Das zeigt eine Studie des DIW. Große Unterschiede gibt es aber trotzdem.

Effects of the German Minimum Wage on Wages and Household Income

This article examines the effects of the introduction of the statutory minimum wage on the distribution of individual income from wages, as well as gross and net means-weighted income of workers in Germany. For the first time, data from the Survey of Income and Consumption was used, in which incomes are recorded in great detail. Both descriptive findings and the results of Unconditional Quantile Regressions ...

Perceived expectations for active aging: the role of motivational and personality factors

Perceived expectations for active aging (PEAA) reflect subjective exposure to social expectations about staying active and fit in old age, for example, by maintaining health and social engagement. We investigated whether motivational and personality factors were related to PEAA in the domains of physical health, mental health, and social engagement. We used a nationally representative sample of German ...

Oil price shocks and household heterogeneity: the income side

We provide evidence on the transmission of oil price movements to individual incomes for a large oil-importing economy. To do so, we trace the footprint of oil price surprises on the income elements of a representative household panel for Germany. An inflationary oil price shock persistently increases the likelihood of unemployment and leads to a sticky decline in contracted labour incomes even though ...