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The effect of the fall of the Berlin Wall on children’s noncognitive skills

The noncognitive skill of conscientiousness has been linked to favourable labour market and health outcomes. But how is conscientiousness affected by events that happen in childhood? We investigate the effects of negative parental selection and economic and social upheaval on conscientiousness in adulthood using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). Our identification strategy exploits the ...

A Tale of Two Countries: The Long Shadow of the Crisis on Income and Wealth in Germany and Italy

Income, consumption and wealth inequality in Germany: Three concepts, three stories?

We quantify the contribution of rental income to pre- and post-government equivalent household income inequality and of housing wealth to net wealth inequality between 2002 and 2017 in Germany by means of a factor decomposition. Further, we differentiate by region types (urban vs. rural, large vs. small municipalities) and federal states. We find that housing wealth, housing ownership and rental income ...

The role of rental income, real estate and rents for inequality in Germany

We quantify the contribution of rental income to pre- and post-government equivalent household income inequality and of housing wealth to net wealth inequality between 2002 and 2017 in Germany by means of a factor decomposition. Further, we differentiate by region types (urban vs. rural, large vs. small municipalities) and federal states. We find that housing wealth, housing ownership and rental income ...

Was wurde aus den Flüchtlingen?

Die gute Nachricht lautet: Immer mehr ehemalige Asylbewerber finden Arbeit. Aber es sind auch nach wie vor viele auf Hartz IV angewiesen. Eine Bilanz.

The Effect of Offspring Sex on Parents’ Migration Probabilities and Outcomes—A Natural Experiment

Scholars can rarely make causal claims about migration probabilities and outcomes. Leveraging a natural experiment based on the randomness of offspring sex, this paper uses the German SOEP Migration Sample to examine the effect of having a first-born son or daughter on parents’ likelihood to migrate and integrate. It shows that (non-Christian) parents of sons are more likely to migrate to Germany, ...

The shape of emotion regulation: Trait emotion regulation as density distributions of states

The Density Distribution approach to personality characterizes traits using both mean levels and within-person variability of behaviors. Recent theory highlights that emotion regulation (ER) is inherently variable, and this Density Distribution approach seems particularly suitable to understand both average tendencies and dynamics of ER as person-specific characteristics. However, there is not yet ...

Thinking mindfully: How mindfulness relates to rumination and reflection in daily life

Mindfulness is a state of awareness comprising an attentional focus on the present moment and a nonjudgmental stance. It is associated with affective well-being and assumed to facilitate adaptive emotion regulation. To support this claim at the within-person level, we investigated associations between 2 mindfulness facets (present-moment attention and nonjudgmental acceptance), 2 emotion-regulation ...

Documentation of ISCED generation based on the CAMCES Tool in the IAB-SOEP Migration Samples M1/M2 and IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees M3/M4/M5 until 2019

Same-Sex Couples’ Division of Labor from a Cross-National Perspective

This study concerns how male and female same-sex couples across countries organize their paid and household labor. Using unique data compiled from multiple national surveys in 7 western countries (N = 723), we examined same-sex couples? paid and household task allocation and evaluate descriptively how this is associated with countries? gender egalitarianism. For paid labor, results indicate that female ...