Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Heterogeneity in the Cyclical Sensitivity of Job-to-Job Flows

Although the cyclical aspects of worker reallocation are investigated in numerous studies, only scarce empirical evidence exists for Germany. Kluve, Schaffner, and Schmidt (2009) emphasize the heterogeneity of cyclical influences for different subgroups of workers, defined by age, gender and skills. This paper contributes to this literature by extending this analysis to job-to-job flows. In fact, job-to-job ...

The Effect of Ethnic Clustering on Migrant Integration in Germany

Since ethnic clustering is common in Germany, a better understanding of its effects on the integration of immigrants could be important for integration policies, especially in the light of rising immigration and a skilled worker shortage. Yet, both economic theory and empirical research for other countries cannot give a clear-cut answer to whether clustering is benefi cial or detrimental for immigrants’ ...

Who gets ostracized? A personality perspective on risk and protective factors of ostracism

Ostracism, excluding and ignoring others, results from a variety of factors. Here, we investigate the effect of personality on the likelihood of becoming a target of ostracism. Theorizing that individuals low in conscientiousness or agreeableness are at risk of getting ostracized, we tested our hypotheses within 5 preregistered studies: Four experiments investigating participants’ willingness to ostracize ...

The benefits of adult learning: Work-related training, social capital, and earnings

We propose a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences framework to estimate pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns to adult education. This approach combines kernel matching with entropy balancing to account for selection bias and sorting on gains. Using data from the German SOEP, we evaluate the effect of work-related training, which represents the largest portion of adult education in OECD ...

Living on the Poverty Line - A Comparative, Dynamic, Analysis of Lone Mothers' Poverty in Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and Sweden

Lone Mothers and Poverty in Italy, Germany and Great Britain - Evidence from Panel Data

This paper focuses on lone mothers' poverty in the Italian familistic welfare regime. In order to appreciate its peculiarities, the study of the Italian case will be developed comparatively by taking into account two other European settings, characterised by strong diversities in the resource distribution systems (family, labour market and welfare) and by a different consistence of female economic ...

An Introduction to Longitudinal Research

Longitudinal Research: An Emergent Method in the Social Sciences

Personality and the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment: Evidence from Germany

Research based in the United States, with its relatively open educational system, has found that personality mediates the relationship between parents’ and child’s educational attainment and this mediational pattern is especially beneficial to students from less-educated households. Yet in highly structured, competitive educational systems, personality characteristics may not predict attainment or ...

Measuring the Distribution of Well-Being: Why Income and Consumption Give Different Answers