Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Revealed: Why you should stay SINGLE in your 20s, according to scientists

Staying single in young adulthood may help build resiliency. Breakups weren't as devastating for young adults who had lived alone. Both men and women experienced the benefits of being single in their 20s.

Bayern will chronisch einsamen Menschen helfen

Bayerns Sozial- und Arbeitsministerin Ulrike Scharf und Gesundheits- und Pflegeminister Klaus Holetschek wollen chronisch einsame Menschen im Freistaat gezielt mit diversen Hilfsangeboten unterstützen. Bayerns Sozialministerin Ulrike Scharf betonte: „Niemand in Bayern muss einsam sein! Das Thema muss raus aus der Tabu-Zone! Ich gründe in der nächsten Legislaturperiode das Netzwerk ‚Bayern gemeinsam ...

Technological Change and Returns to Training

Do returns to training differ if training is accompanied by technological innovations at the workplace? We analyze this potential heterogeneity of returns based on panel data from Germany that provide a unique measure for individuals’ adoption of new technology at the workplace. In the preferred analysis we run fixed effects stimations. As a robustness test we also allow for individual time trends. ...

Bias in Tax Progressivity Estimates

Tax progressivity is central in public and political debates when questions of vertical equity are raised. Applied, structural research demands a simple way to capture it. A power function approximation delivers one parameter that captures the residual income elasticity — a summary measure of progressivity. This approximation is accurate, tractable, and interpretable, and hence immensely popular. The ...

Gender gap dynamics among refugees and recent immigrants: different start, similar patterns?

In the last years, the labor market integration of immigrant women has received much attention in the migration literature. We examine gender differences in labor market integration among refugees and other new immigrants who came to Germany during a similar period from a dynamic perspective. Using two panel data sources, which include recently arrived refugees (the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Sample of Refugees) ...

Do Wind Turbines Have Adverse Health Impacts?

While wind power is considered key in the transition towards net zero, there are concerns about adverse health impacts on nearby residents. Based on precise geographical coordinates, we link a representative longitudinal household panel to all wind turbines in Germany and exploit their staggered rollout over two decades for identification. We do not find evidence of negative effects on general, mental, ...

Über 100.000 Sachsen kommen aus dem Niedriglohnsektor heraus

Der Niedriglohn verliert in Sachsen an Bedeutung. Auf der DGB-Armutskonferenz sagt Arbeitsminister Dulig: Geschäfte mit niedrigen Löhnen funktionieren nicht mehr.

Lifetime victimization experiences, depressiveness, suicidality, and feelings of loneliness in youth in care

Background: Research has demonstrated the damaging effects of poly-victimization on the mental health of children and adolescents. However, few studies have been conducted in high-risk youth in care (Y-IC) samples. Objective: The study examines the frequency of lifetime victimization and the association of poly-victimization and victimization types on depressiveness, suicidality, and feelings of loneliness ...

Wenn Einsamkeit krank macht - Bericht zu den gesundheitlichen Folgen von Einsamkeit in Bayern

Fairness of earnings in Europe: the consequences of unfair under- and overreward for life satisfaction

A large percentage of workers in Europe perceive their earnings to be unfairly low. Such perceptions of unfairness can have far-reaching consequences, ranging from low satisfaction to poor health. To gain insight into the conditions that can attenuate or amplify these adverse consequences, comparative research on the role of country contexts in shaping responses to perceived unfairness is needed. Furthermore, ...