Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

The 2015 Refugee Crisis in Germany: Concerns about Immigration and Populism

This paper investigates the effect of the refugee crisis, and the related government’s asylum policy, on concerns about immigration of the German population. Exploiting exogenous variation in survey interview timing of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), I employ a difference-in-differences strategy to estimate the short-term causal effect of the refugee crisis on concerns about immigration. The ...

Kinderlose Akademikerinnen?

The Study of Social Change and Longitudinal Studies: A Comparison of Panel and Cohort Design

Der Verbleib der Angehörigen der oberen Dienstklasse der DDR nach 1989: Heißt ihr Schicksal nach der Wende beruflicher Abstieg?

Longitudinal Surveys and the Study of Occupational Mobility: Panel and Retrospective Design in Comparison

Jugendliche ohne Schulabschluss und ihre Wege in den Arbeitsmarkt

The "Discovery" of Youth's Learning Potential Early in the Life Course. Project description, research questions, methods and design

“Underachievement” is a well-established educational research field. However, both longitudinal and interdisciplinary studies on the interplay between individuals’ learning potential and educational attainment are rare, as are analyses of life course consequences of underachievement. This psychological, sociological, and economic longitudinal study aims to contribute to our knowledge of social disparities ...

Umbrüche und Kontinuitäten - Ostdeutsche Lebensläufe im Vereinigungsprozess

The life courses and employment histories of East Germans have changed since the fall of the Wall in 1989. Summarizing the research findings in four theses, the authors show that the degree of stability and discontinuity in the life courses of East Germans varies between birth cohorts, gender, and the overt political loyalty to the GDR. Among other things, we see that loyalty to the GDR did not increase ...

The Measurement and Importance of General Reasoning Potentials in Schools and Labor Markets: Pre-Test Report

Shaping Earnings Insecurity: Labor Market Policy and Institutional Factors

We examine the relationship between earnings insecurity, labor market policies/institutions, product market regulation, and macroeconomic shocks across Europe in the 1990s by means of the non‐linear least squares method. Earnings insecurity is proxied by transitory variability in earnings, which captures transitory earnings shocks, and by earnings volatility, which captures both permanent and transitory ...