Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Motivating gig workers – evidence from a field experiment

We study the role of risk aversion and intrinsic motivation in how the payment scheme affects the performance of an online platform’s freelancers. Our RCT varied whether freelancers were only paid a pure sales commission or a lower commission combined with a fixed payment per order to provide insurance against income fluctuations. We do not find evidence for effect heterogeneity with respect to risk ...

On the transmission of monetary policy to the housing market

We provide empirical evidence on the heterogeneous transmission of monetary policy to the housing market across and within countries. We use household-level data from Germany, Italy and Switzerland together with the respective monetary policy shocks identified from high-frequency data. We find that the pass-through of monetary policy shocks to rates of newly originated (fixed-rate) mortgages is twice ...

Evaluierung der Wohnungsbauprämie

They are Doing Well, but is it by Doing Good? Pathways from Nonpolitical and Political Volunteering to Subjective Well-Being in Age Comparison

We investigated whether higher internal control beliefs (perceived control, political efficacy) and improved social relationships (lower loneliness, social support availability) mediated the associations between nonpolitical and political volunteering and subjective well-being (SWB; life satisfaction, emotional well-being). Moreover, we examined whether these effects differed between nonpolitical and ...

3. The German middle class in a changing world of work

This chapter discusses how labour market trends in Germany since the mid-1990s have affected workers in middle-income households. It sets off by looking at the types of jobs carried out by middle-income workers, analysing changes in occupations and sector of employment and discussing the role of rising female labour force participation. It then provides evidence on the share of middle-income workers ...

4. A spotlight on social mobility in the German middle class

This chapter examines short-term income dynamics in Germany since the mid-1990s. It first focuses on the mobility patterns of people in the middle-income group over a four-year interval, looking at trends in their risks of sliding out of the middle, and of experiencing poverty, and their opportunities of rising out towards the top. It then looks at changes in the upward mobility into the middle-income ...

Germany’s low SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence confirms effective containment in 2020: Results of the nationwide RKI-SOEP study

Pre-vaccine SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence data from Germany are scarce outside hotspots, and socioeconomic disparities remained largely unexplored. The nationwide RKI-SOEP study with 15,122 adult participants investigated seroprevalence and testing in a supplementary wave of the Socio-Economic-Panel conducted predominantly in October-November 2020. Self-collected oral-nasal swabs were PCR-positive in 0.4% ...

Statutory Pension Insurance Accounts and Divorce: A New Scientific Use File

Armut in Deutschland: Gefangen in der Unterschicht

Die Gründe für ein Leben in Armut sind vielschichtig. Ob selbstverschuldet oder Schicksal – der Aufstieg ist trotz Hilfen offenbar schwerer als früher.

Politik: Die und wir – unversöhnlich

Die Mehrheit der Deutschen sieht wegen des aggressiven Streits um Corona-Maßnahmen den gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt schwinden. Doch wie neu ist die Sorge um das Miteinander eigentlich?