Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Linguistic barriers in the destination language acquisition of immigrants

There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their destination country. This linguistic distance is an obstacle to the acquisition of a language, which leads to large differences in the attainments of the language skills necessary for economic and social integration in the destination country. This study aims at quantifying the influence ...

Die Entwicklung der Wohnflächennachfrage in den neuen Ländern - Methodischer Ansatz und Analyseergebnisse zur Wohnungsnachfrage. IÖR Texte 112

Entwicklung der Wohnflächennachfrage in den neuen Ländern

Regionale Wohnungsmärkte in Baden-Württemberg bis 2015 mit Ausblick bis 2020

Die Auswirkungen häuslicher Pflege auf die Arbeitsteilung in der Familie

In this article we study the effects of home care on individual time use patterns of family members and the household division of labour. We focus on the amount of time that 30 to 65 year old women and men spend on employment and housework, and the changes that might occur on both the individual and the couples level when home care becomes necessary. The longitudinal analysis is based on data of the ...

Increasing uncertainty in old age in Germany? The development of social inequality in later life since the mid-1980s

The Causes of Seam Effects in Panel Surveys

Health and Wages - Panel data estimates considering selection and endogeneity

Health and Wages: Panel Data Estimates Considering Selection and Endogeneity

This paper complements previous studies on the effects of health on wages by addressing the problems of unobserved heterogeneity, sample selection, and endogeneity in one comprehensive framework. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we find the health variable to suffer from measurement error and a number of tests provide evidence that selection corrections are necessary. Good health ...

Drivers of renewable technology adoption in the household sector

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we undertake a simultaneous assessment of the importance of factors that are individually found to be significant for the adoption of renewable energy systems by households but are not yet tested jointly. These are sociodemographic and housing characteristics, environmental concern, personality traits, and economic factors; i.e. the expected costs of ...