Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Immigrants’ recruitment chances in the German labor market: Evidence from large-scale survey experiments

Seeing Your Religion: Diskriminierung und Rassismus gegenüber Muslim*innen auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt

Child penalties in labour market skills

This paper estimates child penalties in labour-market-relevant cognitive skills, such as numeracy but also literacy and problem-solving competencies. We use international PIAAC data and adapt a pseudo-panel approach to a single cross-section covering 29 countries. Numeracy scores, which are associated with the largest returns to skills and pronounced gender differences, decline by 0.11 standard deviations ...

Personality differences and investment decision-making

We survey thousands of affluent American investors to examine the relationship between personalities and investment decisions. The Big Five personality traits correlate with investors' beliefs about the stock market and economy, risk preferences, and social interaction tendencies. Two personality traits, Neuroticism and Openness, stand out in their explanatory power for equity investments. Investors ...

The persuasiveness of different sources of information on the decision to vaccinate. A cross-sectional study in Germany during the pandemic at the turn of the year 2021/2022

Health information about vaccinations is communicated via various sources of information and is crucial for vaccination decisions. Information sources such as interpersonal sources, traditional print and digital media as well as social media offer information about the risks and benefits of vaccination. During health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic was, some information sources provide hanging ...

Improving Contact Tracing by Prioritizing Influential Spreaders Identified Through Socio-Demographic Characteristics

To mitigate the spread of contagious diseases, there is an ongoing discussion surrounding interventions that strategically target individuals who, due to their social network position, are responsible for more infections than others. However, the practical identification of these individuals using conventional network metrics is considerably challenging due to the lack of required data. A potential ...

Working-Time flexibility and Union Dissolutions: Evidence for couples in Germany

Objective: This study examines the relationship between men's and women's working-time flexibility and relationship dissolutions (cohabitating and married couples) in Germany. Background: Globalisation and technological advancements have popularised flexible working hours, necessitating a deeper understanding of their implications on family dynamics and relationship stability. Employee-oriented ...

Intra-couple gaps in retirees’ financial resources: their extent and predictors across Eastern and Western Germany

Intra-couple disparities in economic resources are often downplayed, yet they substantially affect power dynamics, marital satisfaction, and financial well-being during the marriage and have lasting economic consequences in the event of separation. With the growing privatization of old-age security amidst population aging and welfare cuts, understanding economic intra-couple disparities among retired ...

Trajectories of health-related quality of life across age cohorts: A longitudinal analysis of the German population over 16 years

Background Understanding the trajectories of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) across different age cohorts and sociodemographic factors is crucial for promoting healthy aging. This study aims to examine the course of physical and mental HRQoL over a 16-year period in a nationwide sample of the German population. Methods Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel spanning from 2002 to 2018 (N = 4111; ...

What factors contributed to mental well-being trajectories during the COVID-19 pandemic? A latent growth and multiple predictor analysis among German adults from 2015 to 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic constituted a global stressor confronting people with various challenges. We aimed to explore mental well-being trajectories from before (2015–2019) and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2021) and investigate the contribution of potentially protective factors to mental well-being response patterns. We analyzed data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the collaborative ...