Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

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  • Broken School Biographies of Adolescent Refugees in Germany (Kapitel 6)

    The recent movement of refugees to Germany also included nearly 600,000 children and adolescents. The two-cohort panel study “ReGES – Refugees in the German Educational System”1 was launched to analyze the integration of these minors in the educational system. This chapter introduces our study, its design, and the sample. It then focuses on the adolescent cohort and provides a first description of ...

    In: Annette Korntheuer, Paul Pritchard, Débora B. Maehler, Lori Wilkinson , Refugees in Canada and Germany: From Research to Policies and Practice (Gesis-Schriftenreihe, 25)
    Köln: GESIS
    123-142
    | Christoph Homuth, Gisela Will, Jutta von Maurice
  • Establishing a Survey of Refugees in Germany: Challenges in Sampling, Field Work and Measurement

    Diese Dissertation betrachtet verschiedene Schritte einer sozialwissenschaftlichen Erhebung zur Integration Geflüchteter in Deutschland. Anhand von vier Zeitschriftenartikeln wird eine neuartige Strategie, um eine Zufallsstichprobe von Geflüchteten in Deutschland zu ziehen, besprochen, die Folgen fehlender muttersprachlicher Übersetzungen von Fragebögen analysiert, latente Konstrukte auf Vergleichbarkeit ...

    2020, | Jannes Jacobsen
  • Labour Market Participation of Refugees in Germany: Legal Context and Individual-level Factors (Kapitel 10)

    Labour market access is a crucial aspect of integration. Among other things, it provides migrants with economic resources to participate in societal life in the host country. This chapter explores the factors of labour market access for refugees in Germany. First, we provide a brief overview of how labour market access is determined by legal status. Second, we explore individual aspects of labour market ...

    In: Annette Korntheuer, Paul Pritchard, Débora B. Maehler, Lori Wilkinson , Refugees in Canada and Germany: From Research to Policies and Practice (Gesis-Schriftenreihe, 25)
    Köln: GESIS
    189-201
    | Jannes Jacobsen, Magdalena Krieger, Nicolas Legewie
  • The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation

    This article develops and estimates a dynamic model where individuals differ in ability and location preference to evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants’ careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our analysis highlights a novel form of selective return migration where those who plan to stay longer invest more into skill acquisition, with important implications ...

    In: Review of Economic Studies 89 (2022), 6, 2841-2871 | Jérôme Adda, Christian Dustmann, Joseph-Simon Görlach
  • Language, or Dialect, That Is the Question. How Attitudes Affect Language Statistics Using the Example of Low German

    This paper explores how attitudes affect the seemingly objective process of counting speakers of varieties using the example of Low German, Germany’s sole regional language. The initial focus is on the basic taxonomy of classifying a variety as a language or a dialect. Three representative surveys then provide data for the analysis: the Germany Survey 2008, the Northern Germany Survey 2016, and the ...

    In: Languages 6 (2021), 1, 40 | Astrid Adler
  • Personality maturation and personality relaxation: Differences of the Big Five personality traits in the years around the beginning and ending of working life

    Objective: At work, people are confronted with clear behavioral expectations. In line with the Social Investment Principle, the beginning and ending of working life might thus promote changes in personality traits that are relevant at work (e.g., Conscientiousness). Method: Based on the data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we examined nuanced differences of the Big Five personality traits ...

    In: Journal of Personality 89 (2021), 6, 1126-1142 | Eva Asselmann, Jule Specht
  • Gender differences in second language proficiency—Evidence from recent humanitarian migrants in Germany

    In this paper, we address gender differences in the host language proficiency of humanitarian migrants. Prior research has produced inconclusive results with regard to women’s host language proficiency relative to that of men: sometimes women’s proficiency exceeds that of men, sometimes women lag behind men, and sometimes there are no substantial differences. Using data on recent humanitarian migrants ...

    In: Journal of Refugee Studies 35 (2022), 1, 282-309 | Sarah Bernhard, Stefan Bernhard
  • Why a labour market boom does not necessarily bring down inequality: putting together Germany's inequality puzzle

    After an economically tough start to the new millennium, Germany experienced an unprecedented employment boom after 2005, only stopped by the COVID-19 pandemic. Persistently high levels of inequality despite a booming labour market and drastically falling unemployment rates constituted a puzzle, suggesting either that the German job miracle mainly benefitted individuals in the mid- or high-income range ...

    In: Fiscal Studies 43 (2022), 2, 121-149 | Martin Biewen, Miriam Sturm
  • Income changes do not influence political involvement in panel data from six countries

    The income gradient in political participation is a widely accepted stylized fact. This article asks how income effects on political involvement unfold over time. Using nine panel datasets from six countries, it analyzes whether income changes have short-term effects on political involvement, whether effects vary across the life-cycle, and whether parental income has an independent influence. Irrespective ...

    In: European Journal of Political Research 61 (2022), 3, 829-841 | Sebastian Jungkunz, Paul Marx
  • Hate Is Too Great a Burden to Bear: Hate Crimes and the Mental Health of Refugees

    Against a background of increasing violence against non-natives, we estimate the effect of hate crime on refugees’ mental health in Germany. For this purpose, we combine two datasets: administrative records on xenophobic crime against refugee shelters by the Federal Criminal Office and the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees. We apply a regression discontinuity design in time to estimate the effect of ...

    Berlin: DIW Berlin, 2021,
    (SOEPpapers 1130)
    | Daniel Graeber, Felicitas Schikora
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