Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Analyse der Unterbrechungen der Stromversorgung nach § 19 Abs. 2 StromGVV (Gutachten im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Energie)

Das Problem der Unterbrechungen der Stromversorgung nach §19 StromGVV hat in den vergangenen Jahren erhebliche öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit erfahren und Rufe nach Maßnahmen zur Minderung von Stromsperren wurden laut. Bisher liegen keine systematischen Untersuchungen zum Problem der Stromsperren vor. Ziel dieses Gutachtens ist es, eine Einschätzung vorzunehmen, welche Ursachen Stromsperren haben. Darauf ...

Quo vadis? Offenlegungen und Klarstellungen im Streit um das Riester-Sparen

Do Temporary Workers Receive Risk Premiums? Assessing the Wage Effects of Fixed–term Contracts in West Germany by a Matching Estimator Compared with Parametric Approaches

The wage effects of fixed–term contracts (FTCs) are analysed with the German Socio–Economic Panel (GSOEP) for West Germany. Taking selection on observables into account results in an estimated wage effect of −6 percent up to −10 percent. Controlling additionally for selection on unobservables leads to wage effects of −23 percent, which may be explained by self–selection of workers. The results also ...

Do Fixed-Term Contracts Increase the Long-Term Employment Opportunities of the Unemployed?

Confounding True and Random Changes in Categorical Panel Data: Regression to the mean and Regression to the mode

The main advantage of panel analysis is that changes can be investigated at the individual level. However, the observed individual changes result not only from underlying, true changes but also from random fluctuations. The problem is that these random fluctuations may lead to systematically looking patterns of change that seemingly beg for substantive, theoretical explanations. Notorious in this respect ...

Die internationale Vergleichbarkeit von Statistiken - Allgemeine Aspekte und Beispiele aus dem Bereich der Haushaltsstichproben

Persönlichkeit und Wohlbefinden. Das Zusammenspiel von Anlage und Umwelt in einem erweiterten verhaltensgenetischen Design (Dissertation)

Short measurements of personality – Validity and reliability of the GSOEP Big Five Inventory (BFI-S)

In the last decade, an upward trend in the use of short measurements for personality can be observed. The goal of this study was to explore the psychometric characteristics of the GSOEP Big Five Inventory (BFI-S; Gerlitz & Schupp, 2005), a 15-item instrument. We compared the BFI-S with the NEO-PI-R (Costa & McCrae, 1992a, 1992b) in a sample of 598 German adults (mean age = 42 years). Despite ...

Current Twin Studies in Germany: Report on CoSMoS, SOEP, and ChronoS

This article summarizes the status of three recent German twin studies: CoSMoS, SOEP, and ChronoS. The German twin study on Cognitive Ability, Self-Reported Motivation, and School Achievement (CoSMoS) is a three-wave longitudinal study of monozygotic and dizygotic twins reared together, and aims to investigate predictors of and influences on school performance. In the first wave of the data collection ...

Predictors of Refugee Adjustment: The Importance of Cognitive Skills and Personality

In light of the recent worldwide migration of refugees, determinants of a more or less successful integration are heavily discussed, but reliable empirical investigations are scarce and have often focused on sociodemographic factors. In the present study, we explore the role of several individual characteristics for refugee adjustment in the areas of (a) institutional, (b) interpersonal and (c) intrapersonal ...