This paper analyzes the wage development of mothers interrupting their careers, in comparison to the wages of men who do not face a parental interruption. We estimate OLS regression models for different subcategories defined by age and point in time. We use data from the German Socioeconomic Panel from 1984 to 2011, to show that wages and the financial penalty for maternity differ according to the ...
Educational attainment, length of stay, differences in national background and language skills play an acknowledged important role for the integration of immigrants. But integration is also a social process, which suggests that psychological factors are relevant. This paper explores whether and to what extent immigrants and their children need to believe in their ability to control their own success. ...
We are happy to announce the publication of our current SOEPnewsletter 107, January 2015. We have some interesting news about: SOEP data distribution soep.v30beta (what's new in the data set, data ready for sending) a note on cross-sectional weighting our plans to revise our household questionnaire news from the Cross-national Data Center in Luxembourg (LIS) some upcoming events, and some past ...
At the age of just 28, psychologist Jule Specht is an Assistant Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin and a Research Fellow at the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin. Jule Specht completed her undergraduate and doctoral studies in Münster. Since writing her diploma thesis, she has been studying the development of the personality across the life course using data from the SOEP. ...
We are currently in the process of translating and publishing all of the age-specific questionnaires in the SOEP (mother-child / parent-child, youth questionnaires, and a questionnaire given to the relatives of deceased respondents), which up to now were not available in English. The translations are based on the original questionnaires from the 2012 survey; the questions from previous and subsequent ...
