Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Transnational Activities and Immigrant Integration in Germany: Concurrent or Competitive Processes?

This book investigates both the causes and effects of transnational activities among immigrants in relation to their integration into the receiving society. It uses large scale, representative data about first and second generation immigrants in Germany. It develops a formal theoretical model, which explains both transnational involvement and paths of immigrant integration. Important questions are ...

Pathways between perceived discrimination and health among immigrants: evidence from a large national panel survey in Germany

Objective. Discrimination is an important determinant of health, and its experience may contribute to the emergence of health inequalities between immigrants and nonimmigrants. We examine pathways between perceived discrimination and health among immigrants in Germany: (1) whether perceptions of discrimination predict selfreported mental and physical health (SF-12), or (2) whether poor mental and physical ...

Unemployment and Smoking: Causation, Selection, or Common Cause? Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Background: This study investigates possible mechanisms that can explain the association between unemployment and smoking, that is a) unemployment increases smoking probability (causation), b) smoking increases the probability to become unemployed (selection), and c) differences in both smoking and unemployment probabilities trace back to differences in socio-economic position (common cause). Methods: ...

Macht Ungerechtigkeit krank? Gesundheitliche Folgen von Einkommens(un)gerechtigkeit

Theorien der Gerechtigkeitsforschung und experimentelle Studien legen nahe, dass das Erleben von Ungerechtigkeit Stress auslösen und sich so auf die individuelle Gesundheit auswirken kann. Mit Längsschnittdaten des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels (SOEP) der Jahre 2005 bis 2011 untersucht dieser Beitrag, ob ein als zu niedrig – und damit als ungerecht – empfundenes Erwerbseinkommen einen unmittelbaren Einfluss ...

Unfair Pay and Health: The Effects of Perceived Injustice of Earnings on Physical Health

While there is ample evidence that income inequalities influence individuals’ health status, the mechanisms behind this income inequality–health correlation are only partially understood. This study shows that inequalities evaluated on the basis of individual perceptions of injustice are a driving force behind this connection. Two main questions are addressed: Does perceiving one’s earnings as unfair ...

Are Immigrants More Mobile Than Natives? Evidence from Germany

What Determines Household Saving Behavior? An Examination of Saving Motives and Saving Decisions

Saving decisions are complex, since there are many concurrent motives for saving a portion of one's income. However, while the existing literature covers all of these motives, most contributions select only one of them as a focus and relegate the others to the background by making simplifying assumptions about them. While the focus on only one saving motive is vital for many insights on aggregate ...

Das Sozio-ökonomische Panel - Ein Projekt für neue Wege der Indikatorenforschung?

Stabilität und Mobilität am Arbeitsmarkt

Erwerbsbeteiligung und Arbeitsmarkt