Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Geflüchtete Frauen und ihre Teilhabe an Erwerbsarbeit

Mittlerweile machen Frauen einen gewichtigen Anteil unter den Asylerstantragstellenden aus. Die Erwerbsbeteiligung der Frauen steigt, bleibt aber geringer als die von Männern. Stärkere Teilhabe an Integrations- und Bildungsmaßnahmen, verbessertes Deutsch und Entlastung von Familienarbeit können die Erwerbsintegration geflüchteter Frauen unterstützen, ebenso wie Kontakte zu Einheimischen. Die Pandemie ...

Rising waters, falling well-being: The effects of the 2013 East German flood on subjective well-being

This paper examines the effects of the 2013 flood disaster in East Germany on subjective wellbeing. Merging geo-spatial flood data with longitudinal data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we use a panel event study design for the analysis. Our results show that those affected by the flood report a significant life satisfaction drop of 0.17 points on an 11-point scale, which is equivalent to a 2.5% ...

A longitudinal perspective to migrant health: Unpacking the immigrant health paradox in Germany

Previous research finds that recent immigrants are healthier than the native-born, while more established immigrants exhibit worse health, suggesting a process of unhealthy assimilation. However, previous literature is mostly based on cross-sectional data or on longitudinal analyses similarly failing to disentangle individual-level variation from between-individual confounding. Moreover, previous longitudinal ...

Personal transfers in the balance of payments: estimation under changing migration patterns

Personal transfers as part of remittances are becoming increasingly relevant due to growing migration movements influenced by rising income inequalities, political conflicts and increasing environmental challenges. Their impact on countries´economies call for reliable estimations to be used in policy decision making and economic analysis. After a revision of recent demographic changes in Germany, evidence ...

Wachsende Armutsgefährdung mitverantwortlich für Wahlerfolg rechtsextremer Parteien

Junge Ostdeutsche in Spitzenpositionen unterrepräsentiert

Trajectories of school absences across compulsory schooling and their impact on children’s academic achievement: An analysis based on linked longitudinal survey and school administrative data

Prior research has identified that school absences harm children's academic achievement. However, this literature is focused on brief periods or single school years and does not consistently account for the dynamic nature of absences across multiple school years. This study examined dynamic trajectories of children's authorised and unauthorised absences throughout their compulsory school ...

Zeitgespräch: Migration ist kein Nullsummenspiel - ein Interview

Religion attitudes and youth entrepreneurship performance

This study aims to expand knowledge on the nexus between religious attitudes and entrepreneurship performance. Using an international sample of 1,162 European youth entrepreneurs collected in 2016 in eleven countries, we test the increasing effect of spiritual capital on business performance and its heterogeneity across religions. The results from the multivariate regression analyses show only modest ...

Deutschkenntnisse von geflüchteten Frauen und Männern: Entwicklung, Unterschiede und Hintergründe

Auswertungen der zeitlichen Entwicklung zeigen, dass sich die Deutschkenntnisse der Geflüchteten mit zunehmender Aufenthaltsdauer in Deutschland verbessern. Zugleich bestehen aber beachtliche Geschlechterunterschiede auch nach einer längeren Aufenthaltsdauer in Deutschland fort. Ziel der weiteren Untersuchungen ist es, die Hintergründe dieser Geschlechterunterschiede aufzuzeigen.Zum einen wirkt sich ...