Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Regionale Verankerung der Gewerkschaften in Deutschland

Die Verankerung der Gewerkschaften unter den Beschäftigten ist in Deutschland in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten erheblich gesunken. Im Jahr 2023 war weniger als jeder fünfte Beschäftigte in Deutschland Mitglied einer Gewerkschaft. Eine Auswertung des Soziooekonomischen Panels (SOEP) zeigt, dass innerhalb Deutschlands dabei deutliche regionale Unterschiede bestehen. Während Beschäftigte im Nordwesten vergleichsweise ...

Weiterentwicklung der Alterssicherungssysteme in Deutschland: Systemfremde Zielsetzungen, irreführende Indikatorik und fehladressierte Reformen

Die Sorge vor Armutsgefährdungsrisiken im Alter motiviert eine Vielzahl von Reformvorschlägen, die vor allem die gesetzliche Rentenversicherung um zusätzliche Umverteilungselemente ergänzen wollen. Der Begründungszusammenhang führt jedoch in die Irre, denn von der Höhe einer gesetzlichen Rente kann nicht treffsicher auf mögliche Armutsgefährdungsrisiken geschlossen werden. Der Wohlstand im Alter wird ...

Where is the Limit? Effects of Different Operationalisations of the Spatial System on Labour Market Research in Germany

Labor market entry dynamics and mental health outcomes among young people with and without disability

Young people with disability face significant barriers to stable employment. Yet, little is known about how early labor market experiences shape their long-term mental health. This study examines associations between early career insecurity and subsequent mental health trajectories, focusing on disability status as a key axis of inequality. We use nationally representative longitudinal data from the ...

Der amerikanische Traum verblasst

Wer trotz harter Arbeit kaum vorankommt, wird empfänglicher für populistische Versprechen. Das zeigen Daten aus den Vereinigten Staaten.

Private wealth ownership and emissions

This paper estimates the distribution of wealth-related greenhouse gas emissions across the German population, assigning responsibility for emissions to the owners of different asset types. It combines macro-data on the emissions per asset type with micro-data on the asset ownership per individual in Germany in 2019, linking data from national accounts, air emission accounts, and survey data on wealth ...

Adapting to Adaptation? Income adaptation across the life cycle

This paper examines whether adaptation to income varies over the life cycle. Income and well-being research often distinguishes short-run and long-run income associations, but rarely asks whether the degree of adaptation itself depends on age. Using about three decades of data from the Socio-Economic Panel (1993–2023), we estimate individual fixed-effects distributed-lag models of life satisfaction ...

The price of hope: Reference-group mobility and the subjective value of income

We examine whether upward mobility within a person’s reference group changes the subjective value of own and reference income. Standard relative-income models interpret higher peer income mainly as status loss. We argue that this view is incomplete. In mobile reference groups, higher peer income may also signal attainable opportunities, consistent with a “tunnel effect”; at the same time, mobility ...

Willingness to Participate in Respondent-Driven Sampling: Findings from the German Social Cohesion Panel

Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) has been shown to be a promising network sampling strategy. However, it has also been shown to fail in some applications. Basing an RDS procedure on an existing panel study may, therefore, contain the risk of failure and might even alienate non-compliant seeds. This study therefore investigates the hypothetical willingness of general population panel participants to ...

The parental care burden of child disability

Children with a disability require a greater level of care, which may profoundly affect the lives of their parents as their primary caregivers. However, empirical evidence to quantify the parental care burden of child disability remains scarce. This study aims to uncover the extent to which a child's disability affects the parental care burden by investigating fathers’ and mothers’ time spent ...