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SOEP Annual Report 2023

Zahlen tarifgebundene Unternehmen besser? Eine Analyse der Verdienste tarifgebundener und ungebundener Beschäftigter auf Basis des SOEP

In der Debatte um die erodierende Tarifbindung wird häufig darauf verwiesen, wie wichtig Tarifverträge sind, um Beschäftigten hohe Gehälter zu sichern. Dabei wird auf Lohnunterschiede von über 20 Prozent zwischen Beschäftigten, die nach Tarif bezahlt werden und jenen ohne Tariflohn, verwiesen. Diese sogenannte Tariflohnlücke ist jedoch zu einem großen Anteil auf strukturelle Unterschiede zwischen Unternehmen ...

The Integration of Migrants in the German Labor Market: Evidence Over 50 Year

Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus, we study their labor market integration over the last 50 years and highlight differences to the US case. Although the employment gaps between immigrant and native men decline after arrival, they remain large for most cohorts; the average gap after one decade is 10 pp. Conversely, income ...

Context, health and migration: a systematic review of natural experiments

Background: Migration health research pays little attention to the places into which people migrate. Studies on health effects of contextual factors are often limited because of the ability of individuals to self-select their environment, but natural experiments may allow for the causal effect of contexts to be examined. The objective was to synthesise the evidence on contextual health effects from ...

Atypical work, financial assets, and asset poverty in Germany

This study investigates how atypical employment (i.e., part-time, temporary work, mini-jobs) affects workers' ability to accumulate financial assets and exposes them to asset poverty in Germany. Asset poverty occurs when household financial resources (e.g., bank deposits and stock equity) are insufficient to live at the income poverty line for three months. Previously, studies on labour market ...

Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity

The role of ethnic clustering in ethnic identity formation has remained unexplored, mainly due to missing detailed data. This study closes the knowledge gap for Germany by employing a unique combination of datasets, the survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and disaggregated information at low geographical levels from the last two but still unexploited full German censuses, 1970 and 1987. ...

Healthcare Workers and Life Satisfaction during the Pandemic

We evaluate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the life satisfaction of healthcare workers, as compared to the wider workforce, in five European countries. In ten waves of quarterly panel data, the life satisfaction of healthcare workers is always higher than that of other essential workers and non-essential workers. Life satisfaction follows a double humped pattern over time for all workers, which ...

Selection, socialization, and risk preferences in the finance industry: Longitudinal evidence for German finance professionals

The financial sector plays a crucial role in society. Consequently, prior research has examined the preferences of professionals working in finance. However, these studies have tended to be cross-sectional and have neglected the dynamic roles played by (self-)selection and socialization. This paper uses longitudinal data from Germany to examine how individuals’ financial risk preferences affect their ...

Einsamkeit und Armut

Die Expertise erörtert den internationalen Forschungsstand zu Einsamkeit und Armut. Der Tenor dieser Studien ist eindeutig: Menschen, die von Armut betroffen sind, fühlen sich stärker einsam. Sie sind zudem häufiger sozial isoliert. Basierend auf diesen Erkenntnissen werden für Deutschland multivariate Analysen auf Datenbasis des Sozio-Oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) für die Jahre 1985 bis 2020 durchgeführt. ...

Accounting For Individual-Specific Reliability of Self-Assessed Measures of Economic Preferences and Personality Traits

Measures based on self-assessments, which are increasingly important in empirical economic research, are plagued by measurement error. This paper presents the first attempt at measuring both revealed and self-reported reliability of individuals’ answers on selfreports of latent characteristics. We show that measurement error on self-reports relevant to economists is heterogeneous across individuals ...