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The main aim of the present paper is to historically reappraise the development of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) in the 1990s after the first six waves had been collected. This development was closely connected to the opening of the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe and the fall of...
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Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2008, this paper analyses the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner's personality, hours of work,...
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Der Beitrag zeigt räumliche Auswertungsmethoden durch die Einbindung von raumrelevanten Indikatoren aus Fernerkundungsdaten in die Daten der Längsschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) auf Basis von Geo- Koordinaten. Durch die Verortung von Privathaushalten (ohne Darstellung der...
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Staatlich organisierte Altersvorsorgesysteme, die in Umlage finanziert werden (in Deutschland ist dies die gesetzliche Rentenversicherung [GRV]), bedürfen einer expliziten Regelung, wie hoch die Renten sein sollen bzw. wie die laufenden Renten den veränderten ökonomischen Rahmenbedingungen...
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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...
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In den Sozialwissenschaften spielt die sogenannte Citizen Science, also der Einbezug von an Wissenschaft interessierte Bürgerinnen und Bürgern in wissenschaftliche Erhebungen als Methode empirischer Sozialforschung bislang keine Rolle. Freilich sind die in der Politik zunehmend häufiger...
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In Germany the foreign born population is made up of foreigners and so called "ethnic Germans" who migrated from eastern European countries to Germany. While the first group is confronted with problems arising from the typical German concept of ethnicity and citizenship, the latter are entitled...
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We compare patterns of movements into and out of poverty by children in Britain and Germany using data from the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1992-7. Compared to Germany, in Britain poverty persistence is greater, and poverty exit rates in...
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Die Studie analysiert die Determinanten der Inzidenz, des Umfangs und der Kompensation von Überstunden in Westdeutschland und Großbritannien in den Jahren 1991 bis 1998. Ist die Inzidenz von Überstunden in beiden Ländern noch durchaus vergleichbar, so arbeiten britische Arbeitnehmer im...
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Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...
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