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Making Integration Work? Facilitating Access to Occupational Recognition and Immigrants’ Labor Market Performance

Diese Arbeit nutzt eine Reform, welche die Anerkennung ausländischer Berufsqualifikationen für Zuwanderer aus nicht-EU Staaten in Deutschland erleichterte. Die Untersuchung detaillierter administrativer Daten zur Sozialsicherung und Befragungsdaten mit Hilfe eines Difference-in-Difference Designs ergab, dass die Reform den Anteil der Zuwanderer aus nicht-EU Ländern mit einer Anerkennung ihrer Berufsqualifikation ...

Personality growth after relationship losses: Changes of perceived control in the years around separation, divorce, and the death of a partner

Background: Previous research suggests that romantic relationships play a crucial role for perceived control. However, we know surprisingly little about changes in perceived control before and after the end of romantic relationships. Methods: Based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), a nationally representative household panel study from Germany, we examined changes of perceived control ...

Climbing the Career Ladder Does Not Make You Happy: Well-being Changes in the Years Before and After Becoming a Leader

Subjective well-being tends to be higher in leaders vs. non-leaders. However, do these differences come from selection effects (e.g., because higher subjective well-being predisposes for occupational success) or from within-person well-being changes before and after becoming a leader? This question remains largely unresolved. Previous research suggests that becoming a leader might be a double-edged ...

Age-specific Effects of Early Daycare on Children's Health

Over the past decades, the share of very young children in daycare has increased significantly in many OECD countries, including Germany. Despite the relevance of child health for child development and later life success, the effect of early daycare attendance on health has received little attention in the economic literature. In this study, I investigate the impact of a large daycare expansion in ...

Gender Gaps in Employment, Working Hours and Wages in Germany: Trends and Developments over the Last 35 Years

In an Imperfect World Policy Rules Cannot be Perfect Either

It is striking that economists in particular firmly believe in the benefits of rule-binding, even though this belief runs counter to the standard assumption of economic theory that we humans are self-interested and therefore extremely resourceful when it comes to circumventing inconvenient government regulations, e.g. taxes. In Public Choice Theory, politicians are even assumed to have nothing but ...

SOEP-IS 2013 – Application for Inclusion of Survey Questions

Measurement equivalence in probability and nonprobability online panels

Nonprobability online panels are commonly used in the social sciences as a fast and inexpensive way of collecting data in contrast to more expensive probability-based panels. Given their ubiquitous use in social science research, a great deal of research is being undertaken to assess the properties of nonprobability panels relative to probability ones. Much of this research focuses on selection bias, ...

Mädchen und Jungen bekommen in Deutschland gleich viel Taschengeld

Regelmäßig belegen Studien mit Blick auf finanzielle Aspekte Unterschiede zwischen Frauen und Männern. Hinlänglich bekannt sind etwa die Gender Gaps bei Verdiensten und Renten. Dieser Wochenbericht zeigt, dass es eine Ausnahme gibt: Beim Taschengeld sind Mädchen und Jungen in Deutschland im Durchschnitt gleichgestellt. Das gilt für alle Altersgruppen von sieben bis 19 Jahren und auch dann, wenn man ...

Der nicht vorhandene Gender Gap beim Taschengeld ist eine erfreuliche Nachricht: Interview