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In Germany, more and more parents are taking advantage of early childhood education and care services for their very young children. Since the quality of such services varies, however, children experience very diverse developmental environments. This raises important questions: Which groups of parents are more likely to choose high-quality facilities for their children than others? How do these selection ...
Zürich:
Jacobs Foundation,
2014,
(Annual Report 2013)
| Pia S. Schober, C. Katharina Spieß, Yvonne Anders
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We have developed and implemented a new sampling strategy to better represent very wealthy individuals in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Our strategy is based on the empirical regularity that the very wealthy have at least part of their assets invested in businesses, and that businesses document shares of relevant shareholders in their books. Our results show that combined analysis of the ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1114)
| Carsten Schröder, Charlotte Bartels, Konstantin Göbler, Markus M. Grabka, Johannes König, Rainer Siegers, Sabine Zinn
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This paper explores whether firms recruit workers with different personality traits for different tasks. We conduct a discrete choice experiment among recruiters of 634 firms in Germany, asking recruiters to choose between job applicants who differ in seven characteristics: professional competence, the Big Five personality traits, and the prospective wage level. We find that all personality traits ...
In:
Labour Economics
78 (2022), 102186
| Caroline Wehner, Andries de Grip, Harald Pfeifer
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Risk attitudes have a significant impact on human decision making. In contrast to the conventional assumption of stable, universal risk attitudes, previous research has found domain‐specific and age‐related differences in risk attitudes. For this reason, a systematic review including 19 studies was conducted to evaluate the relationship between self‐reported risk attitudes and aging in different domains ...
In:
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
34 (2020), 3, 359-378
| Adriana N. König
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Although the Refugee Convention and European asylum legislation state that decisions regarding asylum applications should be determined solely based on persecution and other human rights violations, the outcomes of asylum procedures may be subject to socioeconomic selectivity. This article is the first to analyse whether the human and social capital of asylum-seekers affect the results of decisions ...
In:
European Sociological Review
36 (2020), 5, 663-683
| Yuliya Kosyakova, Herbert Brücker
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The article examines the evolution of migrant low-wage employment in the context of structural changes in the German labour market. By drawing on data from the Socio-Economic-Panel, it seeks to answer why low-wage jobs disproportionally rose among migrants since the late 1980s. It argues that while human capital characteristics mattered to some extent, institutional and organisational changes were ...
In:
Work, Employment and Society
35 (2021), 3, 527-544
| Torben Krings
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This study examines the association between employment trajectories and retired men’s and women’s individual wealth at older ages in the two distinct welfare state contexts of Eastern and Western Germany. Because of the increasing re-marketization of retirement provisions, wealth is becoming increasingly important for retirees’ economic well-being. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study ...
In:
Advances in Life Course Research
47 (2021), March 2021, 100374
| Theresa Nutz, Philipp M. Lersch
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There is an ongoing scientific debate about how environmental concern develops in a population, and under which circumstances it might decline at some point. In this paper, by analysing thirty years of microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), I investigate the role of socioeconomic factors and political preferences in altering and addressing environmental perceptions in Germany, Europe's ...
In:
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
73 (2021), 100925
| Demetrio Panarello
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Prior research with predominantly younger to middle-aged samples has demonstrated that couples’ cortisol levels covary throughout the day (cortisol synchrony). Not much is known about cortisol synchrony in old age, and its potential broader societal correlates. The current study investigates associations between the socio-political context and cortisol synchrony as observed in older couples’ daily ...
In:
Psychoneuroendocrinology
124 (2021), 105082
| Theresa Pauly, Karolina Kolodziejczak, Johanna Drewelies, Denis Gerstorf, Nilam Ram, Christiane A. Hoppmann
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This paper explores the effect of COVID-19 infection rates on individuals’ risk preferences using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Findings show that the spread of COVID-19 does not significantly alter risk preferences. While we do find that individuals with prior cardiovascular diseases reduce their preference for risk-taking, this zero effect is remarkably stable across subgroups of the population. ...
2024,
(SSRN Working Paper)
| Daniel Graeber, Ulrich Schmidt, Carsten Schröder, Johannes Seebauer