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Early Childhood Education and Care Quality in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) – the K2ID-SOEP Study [PDF]
Since 2000, Germany is experiencing an expansion of early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions for children younger than three as well as increasing availability of full-day care for children aged three or older. More and more children attend ECEC centres for increasingly longer hours.
Spieß, K., Schober, P., Stahl, J.
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Abstract Few studies have examined birth order effects on personality in countries that are not Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD). However, theories have generally suggested that interculturally universal family dynamics are the mechanism behind birth order effects, and prominent theories such as resource dilution would ...
Laura J. Botzet +2 more
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Conversion of Non-Respondents in an Ongoing Panel Survey: The Case of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) [PDF]
The results of a resurvey of non-respondents to the SOEP study carried out in 2006 show that this special effort of reinterviewing was relatively ineffective in two respects. First, the rate of successful conversions of passive to active respondents was low (less than 20 percent). Second, the composition of the longitudinal file did not improve.
Jörg-Peter Schräpler +2 more
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Single Motherhood in East and West Germany: What Can Explain the Differences? [PDF]
The share of single mothers is higher in East Germany than in West Germany. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we examine two transmission channels leading to single motherhood, namely out-of-partnership births and separations of couples ...
Uwe Jirjahn, Cornelia Struewing
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The Research Data Center (RDC) of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) [PDF]
Based on recommendations from the “Commission to Improve the Informational Infrastructure (KVI)”, the Council for Social and Economic Data (RatSWD) has issued guidelines for Germany’s new Research Data Centers (RDCs, Forschungsdatenzentren). The RatSWD has been tasked by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research with “improving data use and data ...
Frick, Joachim R. +4 more
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In many panel surveys that rely on face-to-face interviewing, interviewers are repeatedly allocated to the same respondents in each wave. Researchers and fieldwork agencies argue that interviewer continuity can contribute to the quality of the data ...
Simon Kühne
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Labor Market Effects of Immigration: Evidence from Neighborhood Data [PDF]
This paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities of high ...
Bauer, Thomas +2 more
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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,
Elisabeth Hahn +3 more
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Is There a Union Wage Premium in Germany and Which Workers Benefit Most?
Using representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper finds a statistically significant union wage premium in Germany of almost three percent, which is not simply a collective bargaining premium.
Marina Bonaccolto-Töpfer +1 more
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ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE EURO: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY BASED ON THE GERMAN SOCIO-ECONOMIC PANEL (SOEP) [PDF]
This paper investigates changing attitudes towards the euro over time in Germany using longitudinal micro-data from the German Socio Economic Panel Study. We observe that a large part of the German population was worried about the new currency both before and after its introduction.
Isengard, B., Schneider, Thorsten
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