Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Flexibel, aber selbstbestimmt – Arbeitszeitwünsche heute

Im Kontext der Digitalisierung erlebt die Debatte um die Arbeitszeit eine Renaissance (Seifert 2014). Doch ging es in den 1980er-Jahren noch um das Für und Wider einer kollektiven Verkürzung der Arbeitszeit – durch Einführung der 35-Stunden-Woche, die auch als Mittel zur Bekämpfung von Arbeitslosigkeit angesehen wurde –, so geht es heute vielmehr um die flexible Gestaltung der Lage, Dauer und Verteilung ...

Foreign Accents in the Early Hiring Process: A Field Experiment on Accent-Related Ethnic Discrimination in Germany

Based on a field experiment conducted in Germany between October 2014 and October 2015, this article focuses on the disadvantages associated with the presence of a foreign accent in the early hiring process, when applicants call in response to a job advertisement to ask whether the position is still available. We examine whether a foreign accent influences employers’ behaviors via productivity considerations ...

Work, divorce and post-marital living arrangements in Germany: the role of stress, couples’ division of labor and alternative partnerships

Divorce rates in Germany have been increasing since the mid-1960s, however, over the last 15 years this trend appear to be slowing. In accordance, female labor force participation accelerated and is known to be correlated with divorce at the macro level. A common notion – also reflected in Becker’s theoretical model of the new home economics and its related independence thesis – is that women’s participation ...

Erwartungen und Einschätzungen von Beschäftigten – Eine Untersuchung auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (Kapitel 4)

Die Arbeitswelt unterliegt einem permanenten Wandel. Neue Arbeitsweisen, Arbeitsgeräte und Prozesse, aber auch neue Technologien und Geschäftsmodelle beeinflussen in vielfältiger Weise den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt sich auch die Frage, in welchem Umfang Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer von Neuerungen an ihrem Arbeitsplatz betroffen sind, welche Erwartungen sie damit perspektivisch ...

Educational Selectivity and Immigrants’ Labour Market Performance in Europe

This article depicts the selectivity profiles of first-generation immigrants of multiple origins in 18 European destinations and investigates whether educational selectivity is relevant to their labour market performance. The theoretical account starts from the premise that the relative position individuals occupy in the educational distribution of their origin country represents—frequently unmeasured—characteristics ...

The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Norms: Why and How Adolescent Males with Working Mothers Matter for Female Labour Market Outcomes

Social norms are put forward as a prominent explanation for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This paper studies the intergenerational transmission of these norms, examining how they affect subsequent female labour supply decisions, taking into account not only the early socialization of women but also that of their partner. Using large representative panel data sets from West Germany, ...

Day Care Centers: Family Expenditures Increased Significantly at Some Points between 1996 and 2015

Private household expenditures on child care in centers have significantly risen: from an average of 98 euros per month in 2005 to just under 171 euros in 2015 for a child under three and for children three and older (“Kindergarten”1 age group), from 71 to 97 euros in the period between 1996 and 2015. At the same time, more and more households are completely exempt from paying fees for day care. However, ...

Essays on Time Preferences and Expectations in Dynamic Decision Making

The three chapters of this dissertation provide new insights in modeling and estimating dynamic discrete choice models. Building on previous identification results, several new strategies are presented to estimate important aspects of dynamic decision processes. A focus lies on hyperbolic discounting and biased expectations, two elements that the vast majority of the literature on female labor supply ...

The Early Childhood Education and Care Quality in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP-ECEC Quality) Study - K2ID-SOEP Data: Forschungsprojekt im Auftrag der Jacobs Foundation

Applaus ist nicht genug: Gesellschaftliche Anerkennung systemrelevanter Berufe

Die Corona-Pandemie fördert existenzielle Fragen des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalts zutage. Unter anderem wird seit Beginn der Krise kontrovers über den Wert und das Ansehen "systemrelevanter Berufe" diskutiert. Während sich im März 2020 Bürger:innen auf den Balkonen der Republik versammelten, um diesen systemrelevanten Berufen Beifall für ihre Arbeit zu spenden, hielten Teile der betroffenen ...