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This study investigates the role of engaging in physical leisure activities in facilitating refugees? structural integration through enhancing their social capital, destination-language proficiency, and health. The physical fitness gained from such activities can also be crucial for securing physically demanding jobs. As employment significantly influences refugees? social integration, this research ...
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European Journal for Sport and Society
(2026), 1–22
| Jana Kuhlemann, Yuliya Kosyakova
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This paper examines the gaps in Germany’s data infrastructure for responding to crises, as revealed during COVID-19, and argues that linking the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with administrative health records would strengthen the country’s ability to generate equity-sensitive evidence during future health-related crises. Drawing on evidence from the RKI-SOEP study, we illustrate the added value of combining ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
(2026),
| Alexander Lepe, Ingo Kolodziej, Sabine Zinn
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The Socio-Economic Panel Linked Employer–Employee Survey, Version 2 (SOEP-LEE2), provides linked information on employees, establishments, and self-employed individuals in Germany. An earlier Data Observer article (Matiaske, Wenzel, Torben Dall Schmidt, Christoph Halbmeier, M. Maas, D. Holtmann, C. Schröder, et al. 2024. “SOEP-LEE2: Linking Surveys on Employees to Employers in Germany.” Jahrbücher ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
(2026),
| Carsten Schröder, Tamara Böhm, Markus M. Grabka, Alexander Kritikos, Stefan Liebig, Martina Maas, Wenzel Matiaske, Daniel Labarca-Pinto, Isabella Retter, Torben Dall Schmidt, Juliane Zenker
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Is concern about immigration sufficient to account for the increasing success of Germany’s right-wing populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)? Or does socio-economic deprivation also matter? Using German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data from 2014 to 2024, we find that concern about immigration alone accounts for about 75 percent of explicable variation in AfD support and even for 90 percent ...
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PLOS ONE
21 (2026), 7, e0350403
| Martin Schröder, Moritz Rehm, Anja Röcke
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Is concern about immigration sufficient to account for the increasing success of Germany’s right-wing populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)? Or does socio-economic deprivation also matter? Using German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data from 2014 to 2024, we find that concern about immigration alone accounts for about 75 percent of explicable variation in AfD support and even for 90 percent ...
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PLOS ONE
21 (2026), 7, e0350403
| Martin Schröder, Moritz Rehm, Anja Röcke
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Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate how having children affects parents’ participation in arts, high- and lowbrow cultural activities, and sports. Identification combines three complementary, well-established strategies: (i) an event-study design around first births; (ii) twin births as exogenous shocks to second and third births; and (iii) sex-composition ...
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Journal of Cultural Economics
(2026),
| Hendrik Sonnabend, Matthias Westphal
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In Germany, employee absences due to illness rose sharply, particularly in 2022. Various sources argue that the introduction of the electronic certificate of incapacity for work (eAU) caused this. Official data previously did not include absences that were not reported to health insurance providers; since the introduction of the eAU, this is no longer the case. This gap does not exist in Socio-Economic ...
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DIW Weekly Report
20/21 (2026), 167–174
| Markus Grabka, Oskar Breer
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This paper studies inequality of opportunity (IOp) in individual net wealth in Germany from 2002 to 2019 using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Applying the ex-ante IOp framework, we quantify the share of wealth inequality attributable to immutable circumstances and benchmark it against IOp in gross labour earnings. Relative IOp in net wealth is high?slightly above one half of total wealth inequality?and ...
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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
(online first) (2026),
| Daniel Graeber, Johannes König, Viola Hilbert
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This paper explores the effect of COVID-19 infection rates on individuals’ risk preferences using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), a large population-wide random sample. Exploiting county-level variation in a difference-in-differences design, we find that risk preferences remain unchanged: the effect is precisely estimated at 2.1% of a standard deviation (95% CI: [−0.4%, +4.6%]), ruling out economically ...
In:
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
(2026),
| Daniel Graeber, Ulrich Schmidt, Carsten Schröder, Johannes Seebauer
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Climate change triggers anxiety in many people. Concerns about the consequences of climate change vary significantly not just by age and generation but also over time. Using German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data, this Weekly Report examines the extent to which these differences stem from age-related effects, generational socialization, or year-specific events. The results show that climate concerns ...
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DIW Weekly Report
18/19 (2026), 157–163
| Daniel Graeber, Laura Schmitz, Franziska Holz