Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Telework and establishment location: employee influence and regional heterogeneity

Telework could alter the spatial distributions of economic and social activities as work moves away from central places. Decisions regarding telework from home are made in establishments. Employee influence in establishments, as well as regional structures at the establishment location may interact to influence such decisions. Using the SOEP-LEE2 data for Germany findings show that decisions by establishments ...

The origins of entrepreneurship: How parental role models and socialization shape later entrepreneurial intentions

This exploratory study examines the effects of parental socialization and parental role models at ages 7 to 10 on the entrepreneurial intentions of their children in adolescence. Analysis of German household data and more than 1,400 observations shows a moderation effect between parental role models and socialization. An adolescent's willingness to become self-employed in the future is influenced ...

Person-related selection bias in mobile sensing research: Robust findings from two panel studies

In psychology, mobile sensing is increasingly used to record behavior in real-life situations. However, little is known about the selectivity of samples participating in these new data collection approaches and thus about potential risks to the validity of research findings. We therefore investigated two potential sources of selection bias in smartphone-based data collections. Specifically, we examined ...

Differential use and effectiveness of practice testing: Who benefits and who engages?

Practice testing is an effective learning strategy, yet low-achieving students often underutilize it despite its benefits. This study investigates who benefits from and who engages in practice testing within an authentic educational setting. We collected data from 325 undergraduates (56 % self-identified as female) in a gateway mathematics course, combining survey responses, practice testing records, ...

Winners and Losers: The Effects of Monetary Policy on Income and Consumption Inequality

Recent studies have examined the impact of monetary policy on economic inequality, but have focused on advanced economies and wealth inequality. We analyse the impact of monetary policy on income and consumption inequality estimated from a household level dataset in India. We apply Sign-Restricted VAR and Local Projection models to monthly data for 2014–2023. We show that contractionary monetary policy ...

Challenges and progress in labor market integration: Job search, scope and quality of employment

What an (Un) Favorable Match: Public Sector Employment and the Reversal of the Overeducation-Job Satisfaction Penalty

It is a well-documented phenomenon that individuals with higher education than required for their job report lower job satisfaction. However, whether this also applies to public sector employees remains unclear. The German case reveals a negative relationship between overeducation and job satisfaction in the private sector, which is reversed to positive for public sector employees. This holds robust ...

How do individuals interact with the police? Validation of a scale of motivational postures toward the police in Spanish

This article addressed the critical issue of citizens’ attitudes toward law enforcement, focusing on motivational postures toward the police (i.e., the psychological dispositions that individuals maintain toward the police). The study contributes by providing the first validated motivational postures scale toward the police in Spanish. It responds to a gap in research on motivational postures within ...

The Impact of a New Workplace Technology on Employees

How does the implementation of a new technology affect workers? Using detailed worker-level data for Germany, we analyse the impact of new technologies on non-monetary working conditions such as overtime, training and perceived labour intensity. We show that the strongest effects arise in the first year of their implementation. These effects diminish after the introduction period. We further provide ...

Artificial intelligence and autonomy at work: empirical insights from Germany

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a prominent topic regarding the digitalisation of work and its diffusion is expected to radically change job quality. Overall, there exists a large discrepancy between discursive expectations and quantitative empirical evidence. In this article, we use a novel module from the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the overall prevalence of AI at work, the determinants ...