Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Men Lose Life Satisfaction with Fewer Hours in Employment: Mothers Do Not Profit from Longer Employment—Evidence from Eight Panels

This article uses random and fixed effects regressions with 743,788 observations from panels of East and West Germany, the UK, Australia, South Korea, Russia, Switzerland and the United States. It shows how the life satisfaction of men and especially fathers in these countries increases steeply with paid working hours. In contrast, the life satisfaction of childless women is less related to long working ...

Alterssicherung: Sorgen der Selbstständigen unauffällig

Der Koalitionsvertrag formuliert für neue Selbständige ohne obligatorische Alterssicherung eine Pflicht zur Altersvorsorge mit Wahlfreiheit. Eine Auswertung des Sozio-Oekonomischen Panels zeigt, dass zumindest die subjektiv empfundene Sorge um die Altersversorgung in der Gruppe der Selbständigen nicht höher liegt als bei den übrigen Beschäftigten.

Young adults’ gendered trajectories of housework time when leaving home

Objective: To examine young adult women’s and men’s time use for routine housework when moving out of the parental household. Background: From a life-course perspective, establishing an own household is one of the key markers of the transition to adulthood. Leaving home is associated with new responsibilities concerning the organization of everyday life, including routine housework, and provides a ...

Zooming Versus Slacking: Videoconferencing, Instant Messaging, and Work-from-Home Intentions in the Early Pandemic

This article explores key determinants of the intention to work from home (WFH) among U.S. adults in the early phase of the pandemic. Leveraging nationally representative survey data collected in the initial stages of the pandemic, it explores the role of modalities of communication alongside the more frequently studied behavioral, occupational, and sociodemographic factors in shaping WFH intentions ...

Hohes Alter

Emotion Regulation in Cultural Contexts: Implications for Social Adaptation and Subjective Well-Being (Dissertation)

Longitudinal associations of neuroticism with life satisfaction and social adaptation in a nationally representative adult sample

Objective: Correlational studies have frequently linked neuroticism to lower well-being and poorer social adaptation. In this study, we examined the longitudinal associations of neuroticism with life satisfaction and aspects of social adaptation (i.e., loneliness, number of close friends, and interpersonal trust). Method: Cross-lagged panel models (CLPMs) and random intercepts cross-lagged panel models ...

Quantitative Paneldaten

Unter Paneldaten versteht man im Bereich der empirischen Sozialforschung Daten auf Basis einer Untersuchungsanlage, bei der gleichzeitig drei Merkmale erfüllt sind. Es werden bei denselben Untersuchungseinheiten dieselben oder zumindest die gleichen Inhalte erhoben und die Daten werden mehrfach, also mindestens zweimal ermittelt.

Das neue Bürgergeldgesetz – kein Systemwechsel, aber Stärkung von individuellem Schutz sowie verbesserte Chancen nachhaltiger Erwerbsintegration

Teachers and politics

I find that self-selection into teacher training programs in Germany is co-determined with ideology. Incoming teacher-trainees are more left-wing in ideology and political preferences than the average incoming university student. I find also that teacher training programs exert a socialization effect: as compared to the average student, teacher trainees’ views are reinforced and they become more left-wing ...