Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Unintended Consequences and Spill-over Effects of Family Policies: Six Essays in Labour and Family Economics (Dissertation)

This dissertation consists of six independent chapters contributing to the literature of labour and family economics. The main topic concerns how family policies impact on gender and socio-economic inequality in, at times, unintended ways. Chapter 2 uses administrative linked employer-employee data to examine whether employers statistically discriminated against women of childbearing age (potential ...

Child Penalties in Labour Market Skills

Child penalties in labour market outcomes are well-documented: after childbirth, mothers’ employment and earnings drop persistently compared to fathers. Beyond gender norms, a potential driver could be the loss in labour market skills due to mothers’ longer employment interruptions. This paper estimates child penalties in adult cognitive skills by adapting the pseudo-panel approach to a single cross-section ...

Health implications of housing retrofits: Evidence from a population-wide weatherization program

This study provides the first population-representative quasi-experimental estimates on the impact of housing upgrades on occupant health. We analyze the exceptional period of renovations in East Germany following the German reunification during the 1990s. Triggered by one of the largest governmental loan programs in history, 3.6 million dwellings were renovated, focussing on upgrades to the building ...

Temporary employment and first births: A path analysis of the underlying mechanisms using Australian and German panel data

In many countries, temporary work is negatively associated with fertility. Yet, the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain poorly understood. This study investigates a range of mediating pathways (subjective and objective financial situation, short tenure, and employment uncertainty) through which temporary work influences first births in two contrasting contexts: Australia and Germany. Event ...

Immigration, segregation, and attitudes toward immigrants: a longitudinal multiscalar analysis across egohoods

Evidence on how proximity to ethnic outgroups shapes attitudes toward immigration remains inconclusive. We suggest this may be driven, in part, by the fact that studies rarely account for the role of residential segregation. We argue that how the minority-share in an environment affects majority-group attitudes will depend on how segregated groups are from one another. To explore this, we undertake ...

Arbeitszeitpräferenzen von Vätern in Ost- und Westdeutschland: Replikation und Reproduktion einer Studie von Matthias Pollmann-Schult (Thesis)

Die vorliegende Masterarbeit stellt eine Replikation sowie Reproduktion der Studie Familiengründung und gewünschter Erwerbsumfang von Männern – Eine Längsschnittanalyse für die alten Bundesländer von Matthias Pollmann-Schult aus dem Jahr 2008 dar. Ziel ist die Beantwortung der Frage, welche Arbeitszeiten von Vätern präferiert werden sowie die Prüfung, inwieweit die Ergebnisse von Pollmann-Schult repliziert ...

Essays in Empirical Labour Economics (Dissertation)

Projekt "PubBias" - Fragen zur Erfassung der Prävalenz und des Ausmaßes von Publikationsverzerrungen: Kognitiver Pretest

Das von der DFG finanzierte Projekt „PubBias“ untersucht die Prävalenz und das Ausmaß von Publikationsverzerrungen in den Sozial-, Wirtschafts- und Verhaltenswissenschaften in Deutschland anhand von GESIS-Panel- und SOEP-IS-Studieneinreichungen. Gegenstand dieses Pretests sind Fragen zum Publikationsprozess von wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten. Getestet wurden die Fragen mittels persönlich-mündlicher oder ...

The returns to school-quality-adjusted education of immigrants in Germany

This paper explores the role of school quality in immigrants’ home countries on their earnings in Germany, using native Germans as a benchmark. We propose an empirical analysis that highlights two important insights. First, there is a substantial gap in the returns to education between natives and immigrants in Germany, especially when we consider the quality of schooling in the source country where ...

Geflüchtete in Deutschland arbeiten zunehmend: Auch als Fachkräfte

Die Bundesregierung will Geflüchtete noch schneller in Arbeit bringen - auch dies könnte mit zur Lösung des Arbeits- und Fachkräftemangels beitragen. Der Wochenbericht untersucht, wie Geflüchtete über die Zeit in den Arbeitsmarkt in Deutschland finden, in welcher beruflichen Position sie dort beschäftigt sind und welche Faktoren eine Fach- gegenüber einer Hilfskrafttätigkeit beeinflussen. Die Analyse ...