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Corona-Pandemie drängt Selbstständige vermehrt zur Geschäftsaufgabe – Frauen stärker betroffen

Die COVID-19-Pandemie führte im Jahr 2020 für viele Selbstständige zu einem negativen Einkommensschock. Wie hat sich die Pandemie im weiteren Verlauf auf die Bereitschaft ausgewirkt, in dieser Erwerbsform zu verbleiben? Während im Jahr 2019 noch rund 85 Prozent der im Vorjahr Selbstständigen weiterhin einer selbstständigen Tätigkeit nachgehen, trifft dies zu Beginn der Pandemie im Frühjahr 2020 nur ...

Healthy Migrants? Comparing Subjective Health of German Emigrants, Remigrants, and Non-Migrants (Chapter 12)

This article analyses the self-rated health of German emigrants and remigrants compared to non-mobile Germans. Moreover, using a scale measuring self-assessed health changes, we are able to research the health dynamics immediately before and after the migration event. Data from the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS) as well as from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) that covers ...

Bad job, bad health? A longitudinal analysis of the interaction between precariousness, gender and self-perceived health in Germany.

Over the last few decades in all European countries more and more people have been experiencing a condition of precariousness during their working lives. Whether employment precariousness could affect working people's health and whether there exists a gender differential in the relationship are crucial questions that have not been fully explored yet. Then, the aim of this paper is twofold: Firstly, ...

Affluent Lives Beyond the Border? Individual Wage Change Through Migration (Chapter 7)

This chapter investigates individual wage changes of German emigrants. The analytical strategy is twofold. First, we compare hourly wage changes among emigrants with wage changes among stayers. We estimate the Difference-in-Difference of mean net hourly wages between stayers and emigrants over time and account for the positive selection of emigrants on observable characteristics through entropy balancing. ...

Social Origins of German Emigrants: Maintaining Social Status Through International Mobility? (Chapter 8)

The prospect of upward social mobility is a central motive for international migration. Curiously, the nexus of spatial and social mobility attracted attention only relatively late and existing research on intergenerational social mobility usually concentrates on the constellation within the nation state. This chapter expands on this literature by investigating the intergenerational social mobility ...

The creation and resolution of discrepancies between preferred and actual working hours over the life course

This article contributes to the analysis of working hour discrepancies, i.e., under- and overemployment, by exploring how they emerge and resolve with special consideration of the household context. It uses a rich longitudinal data set, the German Socio-economic Panel, for a discrete duration analysis controlling for unobserved heterogeneity. We focus on the most relevant household and job characteristics. ...

SOEP-IS 2020 – Methodenbericht zum Befragungsjahr 2020 des Bonn Intervention Panel

Weighting the SOEP-CoV Study 2020

This paper details the sampling design, results from the field, analysis of selectivities, as well as raking procedures used in the SOEP-CoV study. The sample consists of a random selection of 12,000 households in the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). The sample was divided and surveyed in nine successive tranches. The largest tranches were surveyed first starting April 1, 2020. By the end of May, ...

SOEP-IS 2020 – Survey Report on the 2020 SOEP Innovation Sample

Weiterhin einsam und weniger zufrieden – Die Covid-19-Pandemie wirkt sich im zweiten Lockdown stärker auf das Wohlbefinden aus

Bereits zu Beginn der Corona-Pandemie und des ersten Lockdowns wurde vermutet, dass die Krise mit einer starken psychischen Belastung der Bevölkerung einhergehen würde. Im zweiten, deutlich längeren, Lockdown wurden diese Befürchtungen noch größer. Denn viele sahen dadurch die psychische Gesundheit der in Deutschland lebenden Menschen akut bedroht. Wie aktuelle Ergebnisse der SOEP-CoV-Studie zeigen, ...