Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Für den Spracherwerb ist es wichtig, auf Lerngelegenheiten in der Umgebung zu stoßen: Interview

Deutschkenntnisse entwickeln sich bei Geflüchteten und anderen Neuzugewanderten ähnlich – Sprachkurse spielen wichtige Rolle

Das Erlernen der deutschen Sprache spielt eine Schlüsselrolle für die Integration von neu zugewanderten Menschen. In diesem Beitrag wird der Zweitspracherwerb von Personen, die im vergangenen Jahrzehnt in die Bundesrepublik gekommen sind, in den ersten Jahren nach dem Zuzug untersucht. Hierzu werden Geflüchtete mit anderen Neuzugewanderten verglichen. Die Auswertungen verweisen auf ähnliche Prozesse ...

Mietmarkt: Immer mehr private Vermieter in Deutschland

In Deutschland vermieten und verpachten rund 5,2 Millionen Haushalte Immobilien – deutlich mehr als früher. Ein genauer Blick in die Daten offenbart allerdings, dass die wenigsten mit den Mietobjekten große Gewinne erwirtschaften. Dennoch sollte die Politik mehr tun, um vor allem jungen Familien ein Eigenheim statt der Mietwohnung zu ermöglichen.

No Evidence That Siblings' Gender Affects Personality across Nine Countries

Does growing up with a sister rather than a brother affect personality? In this article, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the effects of siblings’ gender on adults’ personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative surveys covering nine countries (United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Mexico, China, and Indonesia). We investigated ...

Wohneigentumspuzzle

Die Preise für Wohneigentum steigen und steigen, die Wohneigentumsquote stagniert, ist bei jüngeren Haushalten sogar rückläufig, wie passt das zusammen? Sind es nur noch die Immobilienunternehmen, die in Wohnungen investieren? Nein, auch private Kapitalanleger haben die historisch günstigen Finanzierungsbedingungen der vergangenen Jahre genutzt. Die Zahl der Haushalte mit Mieteinnahmen ist in nur wenigen ...

Exposure to Inequality May Cause Under-provision of Public Goods: Experimental Evidence

Economic inequality is rising globally and due to developments in information technologies and globalization, nowadays individuals are more exposed to such an inequality than ever. Recent studies show that exposure to inequality may shape economic decisions. In this article, we test whether contributions in the public goods game are sensitive to information about inequality of personal benefits between ...

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 ...

Environmental Behaviour and Decision Making - Evidence from Laboratory, Online and Natural Experiments

Tackling climate change and keeping global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels is one of the major and most challenging issues that our societies are facing. Households are among the prime contributors to annual greenhouse gas emissions, with twenty percent of emissions being generated by residential energy consumption. Therefore, understanding individual decision-making ...

Lifetime Consequences of Lost Instructional Time in the classroom: Evidence from Shortened School Years

This study estimates the lifetime effects of lost instructional time in the classroom on labor market performance. For identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the affected school years with no adjustments in the core curriculum. The lost in-school instruction was mainly compensated for by assigning additional homework. ...

Living longer, working longer: analysing time trends in working life expectancy in Germany from a health perspective between 2002 and 2018

Population ageing poses growing challenges to social security systems, in particular to public pension funds. The study analyses how Working Life Expectancy (WLE) and Healthy Working Life Expectancy (HWLE) in terms of three health indicators developed in Germany. Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) from 2002 to 2018 (n = 211,141), time trends in labour force rates, mental and physical ...