Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Statuspanik in der Mittelschicht? Aktuelle Befunde aus der Einstellungsforschung.

Von Abstiegsangst bedroht? Befunde der Umfrageforschung zur Lage der Mittelschichten

Wie hat sich die Angst vor dem sozialen Abstieg der Mittelschichten im Zeitverlauf entwickelt. Der Text untersucht den Verlauf der Abstiegsangst der Angehörigen der Oberschicht, der Mittel- und der unteren Schichten über einen Zeitraum von 30 Jahren in Gesamtdeutschland sowie in Ost- und Westdeutschland getrennt. Die Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) und des Indikators der Sorge vor Arbeitsplatzverlust ...

Alleinerziehende unter Druck - Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen, finanzielle Lage und Reformbedarf

Risk takers follow in parents' footsteps

Health Measurement and Health Inequality Over the Life Course: A Comparison of Self-rated Health, SF-12, and Grip Strength

The cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis predicts education differences in health to increase with age. All previous tests of this hypothesis were based on self-reported health measures. Recent research has suggested that self-reported health measures may not adequately capture differences in key analytical constructs, including education, age, cohort, and gender. In this study, I tested the cumulative ...

Maternal Education, Divorce, and Changes in Economic Resources: Evidence from Germany

This study investigated the effects of divorce on educational gaps in mothers’ economic resources. The results shed new light on two opposing theoretical positions that have informed research on social inequality in the consequences of divorce. Recent extensions of the “diverging destinies” perspective posit that divorce is more consequential among the disadvantaged than among the privileged. The notion ...

Education and Health across Lives and Cohorts: A Study of Cumulative (Dis)Advantage and Its Rising Importance in Germany

Research from the United States has supported two hypotheses. First, educational gaps in health widen with age—the cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis. Second, this relationship has intensified across cohorts—the rising importance hypothesis. In this article, we used 23 waves of panel data (Socio-Economic Panel Study, 1992–2014) to examine both hypotheses in the German context. We considered individual ...

Do Immigrants Suffer More from Job Loss? Unemployment and Subjective Well-Being in Germany

This study asks whether immigrants suffer more from unemployment than German natives. Differences between these groups in pre-unemployment characteristics, the type of the transition into unemployment, and the consequences of this transition suggest that factors intensifying the negative impact of unemployment on subjective well-being are more concentrated in immigrants than in natives. Based on longitudinal ...

Erbschaften und Schenkungen im Lebenslauf. Eine vergleichende Längsschnittanalyse mit dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (Diplomarbeit)

Gender Differences in the Consequences of Divorce: A Multiple-Outcome Comparison of Former Spouses

This study examined gender differences in the consequences of divorce for multiple measures of psychological, economic, and domestic well-being. I used household panel data from the German SOEP, retaining the link between initially married couples (N = 755) to compare both spouses over a period of up to four years before and after divorce. Findings showed that men were more vulnerable to short-term ...