Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Mädchen und Jungen bekommen in Deutschland gleich viel Taschengeld

Regelmäßig belegen Studien mit Blick auf finanzielle Aspekte Unterschiede zwischen Frauen und Männern. Hinlänglich bekannt sind etwa die Gender Gaps bei Verdiensten und Renten. Dieser Wochenbericht zeigt, dass es eine Ausnahme gibt: Beim Taschengeld sind Mädchen und Jungen in Deutschland im Durchschnitt gleichgestellt. Das gilt für alle Altersgruppen von sieben bis 19 Jahren und auch dann, wenn man ...

Der nicht vorhandene Gender Gap beim Taschengeld ist eine erfreuliche Nachricht: Interview

Unternehmen leisten einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Integration Geflüchteter in Deutschland

Nach der im Jahr 2015 verstärkt einsetzenden Zuwanderung Geflüchteter hat jüngsten Studien zufolge etwa jedes vierte Unternehmen in Deutschland Geflüchtete eingestellt. Laut einer Umfrage unter 100 Unternehmen mit Erfahrung in der Integration von Geflüchteten hat die Einstellung Geflüchteter verschiedene Effekte. Die Unternehmen berichten von einem Anstieg der Zufriedenheit in der Belegschaft, besserer ...

Companies Contribute Significantly to the Integration of Refugees in Germany

Following the 2015 refugee influx, recent studies have found that around one in four companies have hired refugees. A survey of 100 companies that hired refugees shows that hiring refugees can increase employee satisfaction, improve reputations, and positively affect corporate developments. At the same time, hiring refugees also poses challenges for employers. These include barriers in the hiring process, ...

Pandemic Depression: COVID-19 and the Mental Health of the Self-Employed

We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people’s mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial deterioration in their mental health, self-employed men displayed no significant changes up to early 2021. Financial losses are important in explaining these ...

Can Simulated Experience Be Harnessed to Help People Make Investment Decisions?

To make profitable investment decisions, investors must know and understand their risks. They can learn about these risks in different ways. Evidence suggests that investors who learn from a “risk tool” simulator perceive financial risk more accurately, feel more informed and confident, and thus take on more financial risk. We attempt a conceptual replication of these findings, exploring whether they ...

Older Households: Comparison of Income, Wealth, and Survival in the United States with Selected Countries

Income and wealth disparities among older households were wider in the United States than in selected countries from 1998 through 2019, according to GAO's review of households headed by those 55 and older. For example, in 2007, the median, or “typical,” income of high-income older households in the United States was about 12 times greater than that of low-income households, compared to about 6 ...

Do Personality Traits Moderate the Effects of Cohabitation, Separation, and Widowhood on Life Satisfaction? A Longitudinal Test for Germany

The start and end of a romantic relationship are associated with substantial changes in life satisfaction. Yet, whether Big Five personality traits moderate these relationship transition effects is hardly known. Such knowledge helps to understand individual variation in relationship transition effects and provides the possibility to further test the stress and social support explanations of these effects. ...

Political socialization, political gender gaps and the intergenerational transmission of left-right ideology

While left and right are the main terms to distinguish political views in Western Europe, the family socialization of citizens has mainly been studied in terms of partisan preferences rather than identification with these ideological blocks. Therefore, this study investigates the intergenerational transmission of left-right ideological positions in two European multiparty systems. To investigate expectations ...

Politische Sozialisation in der Familie