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Surprisingly absent! On the earnings penalty of second-generation immigrants in Germany

Whether or not immigrants are well integrated into the labor market in Germany has been the focus of an ongoing public discussion. While there has been a lot of research on the career paths of first-generation immigrants, official statistics do not offer a lot of insight when it comes to the one of the offspring of the first generation. This paper seeks to address this issue for the second generation ...

Sporting Activity, Employment Status and Wage

We propose a structural model of participation to sporty activities and labour supply. We jointly model employment, wage and sporting activity using a dynamic model. We estimate for the period going from 1994 to 1999 a dynamic multivariate model with random effects using the German Socioeconomic panel (GSOEP). The error terms of the equations of the model can be correlated. Each of these error terms ...

The effect of co-ethnic social capital on immigrants' labor market integration: a natural experiment

Empirically identifying the causal effect of social capital on immigrants’ economic prospects is a challenging task due to the non-random residential sorting of immigrants into locations with greater opportunities for prior or co-ethnic connections. Our study addresses this selection-bias issue by using a natural-experimental dataset of refugees and other immigrants who were exogenously allocated to ...

Sources of growing labour market inequalities among low-skilled men in Western Germany

We use the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984-2008 to identify the sources of this apparent „polarization“ among unskilled men. We start by confirming that earnings inequality among low-skilled men has grown substantially (measured as earnings over a given three-year period in order to minimize effects of short-term fluctuations). Drawing on economic and sociological theories, we then discuss potential ...

An economical measure of attitudes towards artificial intelligence in work, healthcare, and education (ATTARI-WHE)

Artificial intelligence (AI) has profoundly transformed numerous facets of both private and professional life. Understanding how people evaluate AI is crucial for predicting its future adoption and addressing potential barriers. However, existing instruments measuring attitudes towards AI often focus on specific technologies or cross-domain evaluations, while domain-specific measurement instruments ...

Nearly 1.1 million people in Germany use food banks, single and separated parents in particular at an above-average frequency

Food banks are returning to the spotlight as their use increases due to the coronavirus pandemic and the influx of Ukrainian refugees to Germany. The current discussion is focused on whether the food banks can handle the increasing number of users as well as the financial and organizational challenges that come with them. Until now, however, no robust, empirical data on food bank use has been available. ...

Settlement intentions of Ukrainian refugees in Germany: Adhering to social status back home or restarting again abroad?

Background: The choice between permanent settlement and temporary migration has garnered increased attention in international migration studies, yet the decisions of refugees remain underexplored. Objective: Building on the existing literature on return migration among voluntary migrants, this paper investigates the importance of socio-psychological and economic-skills contexts in refugees’ home and ...

SOEPnewsletter March 2026

Data Service News and Events People and Papers Staff News Community News Appendix: External Events and CfPs Dear SOEP Community, In the current issue of the SOEPnewsletter 2026, you will find all the information you need about the latest data releases (see “ Data Service ”) as well as upcoming and past events (see “ News and Events ”).  As usual, we present a selection of interesting new publications ...

German Social Cohesion Panel 2021-22, Wave 1-2

Dataset information Data Access The Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) and the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) are conducting a panel study as part of their research cooperation. This involves surveying individuals in Germany in their household context on aspects of social cohesion, social inequality and social conflict. The dataset "German ...

SOEP-Core v40.1 – BIOPAREN: Biography Information on the Parents