Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Trends in relative and absolute mobility of homeownership in Europe

Homeownership has declined markedly among younger generations across Europe. A common assumption is that this decline is increasingly stratified by parental homeownership, due to rising house prices and the growing importance of parental financial support. We show that this assumption does not hold for the average European. Using data from EU-SILC 2011 and 2019 covering 24 European countries, we examine ...

Auswirkungen der Anhebung des Mindestlohns auf 12 Euro auf individuelle Beschäftigungsbewegungen und betriebliche Lohnstrukturen

The integration of migrants in the German labour market: evidence over 50 years

Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus, we study their labour market integration over the last 50 years and highlight differences to the US case. Although the employment gaps between immigrant and native men decline after arrival, they remain large for most cohorts; the average gap after one decade is 10 percentage points. ...

Pro-environmental behavior and life satisfaction: How strong is our evidence?

A positive relationship between pro-environmental behavior and subjective well-being has been used to argue for a “double dividend”, i.e. the narrative that pro-environmental behavior is beneficial for both environment and individual, when measured in the metric of subjective well-being. Our paper argues that the (causal) evidence base for such a narrative is far too weak. We suggest methodological ...

Private Life Preference and Life Satisfaction

Life satisfaction should be analysed focussing on the institutionalized occupational and private life, on preferences, and on the life course and controlling for life success. To do so, four hypotheses are tested. (1) Private life preference affects private life satisfaction positively, and occupational life satisfaction negatively. (2) Private life preference is affected by private life satisfaction ...

Conservative political orientation in the German police: selection and socialization

A large body of research shows that police officers hold more conservative political orientations than the general population, both across countries and over time. Studies seeking to explain this phenomenon report inconclusive findings. This paper studies two possible explanations: self-selection of politically conservative individuals into the police force (selection hypothesis) and growing conservatism ...

Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labor Supply

We investigate the role of cultural norms in shaping women's labor supply decisions after childbirth. Specifically, we are interested in the interplay between childhood socialization and adulthood environment. To that end, we leverage the setting of the German reunification when East Germany's gender-egalitarian culture induced by socialism and West Germany's more traditional culture ...

A question of perspective: Target- vs. perceiver-specific dimensions of mind perception

Mind perception – the inference of mind in others – is foundational for social cognition and interaction, but previous research on its underlying dimensions has so far only produced mixed findings. In a prominent study, H.M. Gray et al. (2007) identified two dimensions of mind perception – Agency and Experience –, while more recent work instead suggests three dimensions similar to Body, Heart, and ...

Structural labour market change, cognitive work, and entry to parenthood in Germany

Technological change and globalization have caused unprecedented transformations of labour markets, resulting in a growing division between workers who perform cognitive vs non-cognitive tasks. To date, only few studies have addressed the fertility effects of these long-term structural changes. This study fills that gap. We measure the cognitive task content of occupations using data from the Employment ...

Endogeneity of household size and income in the estimation of equivalence scales from satisfaction data

Analyses of income distributions across households crucially depend on equivalence scales. They define income increments necessary to keep a household's living standard constant as it is joined by additional adults or children. Such scales have frequently been estimated using income satisfaction data, yet under the assumption that household income, size, and structure are exogenous. The present ...