Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

The Labour Supply of German Single Mothers: A Bivariate Probit Model

Job Related Valies, Motivation and Stress: Psychosomatic Inpatients Compared to a Population-Based Representative Sample

Convergence or divergence? Educational discrepancies in work-care arrangements of mothers with young children in Germany

This study examines how educational differences in work-care patterns among mothers with young children in Germany changed between 1997 and 2013. Since the mid-2000s, Germany has undergone a paradigm shift in parental leave and childcare policies. Our comparative analysis of East and West Germany provides new evidence on whether the long-standing gender regime differences interact with recent developments ...

Parental socio-economic status and childcare quality: Early inequalities in educational opportunity?

This study examines whether children from potentially disadvantaged families attend early childhood education and care (ECEC) centers of lower quality compared to more advantaged children in the universal and strongly state-subsidized ECEC system in Germany. We combine the representative German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with the 2014 K2ID-SOEP extension study on ECEC quality. We run linear and logistic ...

Housing Patterns and Mobility of the Aged: The United States and W.-Germany

Data in the Domain of School Education - Secondary School: Present Situation, New Developments and Future Requirements

Data in the Domain of Secondary School Education

Research on school education is exceptionally active at present. This heightened level of activity is partly due to the realization that, compared to other countries, Germany knows very little about its school system. Before the results from the first cycle of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) were published at the end of 2001, for example, even the proportion of immigrant students ...

Old Age Poverty in Selected Countries of the European Union - Are Women Disproportionally Affected?

Key indicator Gender Pay Gap in unadjusted form (Germany, 2003)

Cynical Beliefs About Human Nature and Income: Longitudinal and Cross-Cultural Analyses

Based on the existing literature on worldview beliefs, cynical hostility, and Machiavellian cynicism, we suggest that holding cynical beliefs about human nature can be detrimental for individuals’ income. Cynical individuals are more likely to avoid cooperation and trust or to overinvest in monitoring, control, and other means of protection from potential exploitation. As a result, they are more likely ...