Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Wohnungsmarktkrise und Schwellenhaushalte

The reliability of replications: a study in computational reproductions

This study investigates researcher variability in computational reproduction, an activity for which it is least expected. Eighty-five independent teams attempted numerical replication of results from an original study of policy preferences and immigration. Reproduction teams were randomly grouped into a ‘transparent group’ receiving original study and code or ‘opaque group’ receiving only a method ...

Ukrainian refugees in Germany: Escape, arrival and everyday life

The short study by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), the Research Centre of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF-FZ) and the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) presents the first key findings from the joint study "Refugees from Ukraine in Germany". The focus of ...

The development of subjective well-being across the life span: A meta-analytic review of longitudinal studies

How does subjective well-being (SWB) develop across the life span? Theories and previous empirical research suggest heterogeneous conclusions regarding this question. Therefore, in this meta-analysis, we synthesized the available longitudinal data on mean-level change in three SWB components: life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect. The analyses were based on 443 unique samples with ...

Methoden der Sozialstrukturforschung – Unterscheiden und Vergleichen

Das Treffen sinnvoller Unterscheidungen und Vergleiche ist das grundlegende Handwerkszeug der Sozialstruktur- und Ungleichheitsforschung. Wir stellen dar, wie Unterscheidungen und Vergleiche auf eine adäquate Art und Weise durchgeführt werden können. Anhand der Konstruktion von sozialen Milieus und Wohlfahrtsstaatstypen diskutieren wir vier Ziele einer guten Unterscheidung: theoretische Klarheit, Validität, ...

Much to lose, no credentials to prove it – Educational aspirations and intentions of adult refugees as means of occupational status re-attainment

We analyse how educational aspirations and intentions of adult refugees in Germany are shaped by their foreign educational credentials and their previous occupational status. Because the allocation of medium-skilled jobs on the German labour market heavily relies on a variety of credentials, unlike in the countries of origin, where skills are usually acquired on the job but not formally certified, ...

The impact of free trade agreements on Middle East and North Africa exports of intermediate and final goods

This paper is the first to analyse the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) and the harmonisation of rules of origin (RoO) on Middle East and North African (MENA) countries’ exports differentiating between final and intermediate goods for a global sample of trade partners. Data on exports from four MENA countries (Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia) to 61 destinations over the period 1995–2016 are ...

The impact of COVID-19 government responses on remittances in Latin American countries

Workers' remittances declined sharply as the COVID-19 pandemic spread in the first half of 2020, rebounding in the second half. This paper analyses the impact of containment and economic support measures on remittances sent to Latin America during 2019–2020 using a gravity model estimated with the Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood estimator (PPML). Results show that containment measures in receiving ...

Leaving legacies and liabilities: The distribution of wealth at death

This paper leverages novel administrative data on terminal wealth in Vienna to show that Gini indices of wealth inequality at death exceed unity, with 20-30% of decedents leaving behind debt. We analyze the drivers of this distribution, finding that the drivers of terminal wealth (distribution) are different from determinants of wealth (inequality) among the living. Lifecycle effects have limited explanatory ...

Ethnische Bildungsungleichheiten

Dass Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund im deutschen Bildungssystem benachteiligt sind, hat mit kulturellen Faktoren wenig zu tun. Entscheidend ist ihre soziale Stellung. Dies und vieles mehr erklären der Soziologe Jörg Dollmann und die Soziologin Cornelia Kristen in einem schriftlichen Interview.