Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Mandatory day care for preschool children would not be an effective solution in targeting particular children

In Germany, around 94 percent of children between the ages of three and six attend a day care center. Regarding the remaining six percent, many experts have speculated that children, primarily those from socio-economically disadvantaged households, do not use day care. Based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Families in Germany survey (FiD), the present study is one of the first ...

Kindertageseinrichtungen: Ausgaben der Familien sind von 1996 bis 2015 mitunter deutlich gestiegen

Die Ausgaben der privaten Haushalte für die Betreuung in Kindertageseinrichtungen sind in den vergangenen Jahren deutlich gestiegen: für ein Kind unter drei Jahren von durchschnittlich 98 Euro monatlich im Jahr 2005 auf knapp 171 Euro im Jahr 2015 und für ein Kind im Kindergartenalter (ab drei Jahre) in den Jahren 1996 bis 2015 von 71 auf 97 Euro. Gleichzeitig wurde der Kita-Besuch von immer mehr Kindern ...

Immigration and the Evolution of Local Cultural Norms

We study the local evolution of cultural norms in West Germany in reaction to the sudden presence of East Germans who migrated to the West after reunification. These migrants grew up with very high rates of maternal employment, whereas West German families followed the traditional breadwinner-housewife model. We find that West German women increase their labor supply and that this holds within household. ...

Frauen weiterhin am Ende der Gehaltsskala

Früher Kindergartenbesuch

Der Osten wird reicher, bleibt aber ärmer als der Westen

Reiche werden reicher, Arme ärmer

No evidence that economic inequality moderates the effect of income on generosity

Are the rich less generous than the poor? Results of studies on this topic have been inconsistent. Recent research that has received widespread academic and media attention has provided evidence that higher income individuals are less generous than poorer individuals only if they reside in a US state with comparatively large economic inequality. However, in large representative datasets from the United ...

United, Yet Apart? A Note on Persistent Labour Market Differences between Western and Eastern Germany

Comparing aggregate statistics and surveying selected empirical studies, this paper shows that the characteristics and results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite similar in some respects but still differ markedly in others even 25 years after unification. Whereas no substantial differences can be detected in firms' labour demand decisions and in employees' ...

Family and Gender Still Matter: The Heterogeneity of Returns to Education in Germany